Sentence examples for lack a foundation from inspiring English sources

Aware that too many books about Russian foreign policy arrive instantly obsolete because they lack a foundation in history or political culture, Stent opens with those subjects.

The crassness comes with commentary weighed down by similes that lack a foundation in reality and sound like losing entries in a "Why I Want My Locutions to Sound Like Dennis Miller's" contest.

Many of them either lack a foundation altogether or have started a foundation and not done much with it.

Human rights treaties play an important role in international relations but they lack a foundation in moral philosophy and doubts have been raised about their effectiveness for constraining states.

So often, resolutions lack a foundation of meaning and personal relevance, which is why they run out of steam.

Laws requiring providers to tell women that reversing an abortion is possible are like laws requiring doctors to tell women abortion leads to breast cancer or that dictate the width of a clinic's hallways — restrictions that simply lack a foundation in scientific evidence.

This means it lacks a foundation in the power of either the market or the state.

When the market recovers, the company lacks a foundation from which to rebound.

The Buzzards Bay Light Tower, rising 170 feet (52 metres) above mean low water, was the first lighthouse in the United States to be built (1951) over open water (i.e., lacking a foundation on dry land); the four-masted structure was scheduled for demolition in the mid-1990s.

The dissent attempts to equate this distinction with its view of an alleged constitutional difference between religious "speech" and religious "worship". See post at 286, and n. 3. We think that the distinction advanced by the dissent lacks a foundation in either the Constitution or in our cases, and that it is judicially unmanageable.

Without a shared understanding of the present, future goal-setting lacks a foundation and motivation.