Sentence examples for irrelevant grounds from inspiring English sources

But the way this election has been disrupted is entirely about silencing and excluding Walcott on these very same irrelevant grounds.

Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor busted for buying sex but never prosecuted, has received a lot of misguided sympathy on the irrelevant grounds that prostitution is a victimless crime.

"A society free not only of racism but of sexism and of heterosexism," he writes, "is a neoliberal utopia where all the irrelevant grounds for inequality (your identity) have been eliminated and whatever inequalities are left are therefore legitimated".

It would be interesting to hear the outcome of experiments to see whether people's intuitions about prima facie duty are subject to change on morally irrelevant grounds.

Consequently anything for which we are not responsible cannot be considered a relevant ground for unequal distribution; and both natural endowment and social position are excluded, constituting irrelevant grounds for exeption.

On a practical level, Lauridsen and Lippert-Rasmussen criticise that A4R does not provide decision-makers with guidance as to how to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant grounds for making decisions.

The Holocaust framework allowed one to put aside as irrelevant any legitimate grounds for criticizing Israel".

Inferring the causal irrelevance of, say, my dizziness, from the causal sufficiency of its physical basis, is not appreciably better than rejecting the redness as irrelevant on the ground that all the causal work is accomplished already by its determinate scarlet.

But in his haste to declare a "recovery boom," Mr. Brooks denigrates prevention, saying that controversy about abstinence versus condoms is "nonsense," and "irrelevant on the ground".

On the one hand, the size p 1 of the initial partition is reduced roughly by L and on the other hand it can be avoided that in the truncation step vectors are retained, that are irrelevant for the ground state of the original system.

In any event, lawyers for the girls say that the circumstances of the party, off school grounds, were irrelevant as a justification for the school's actions.