Sentence examples for may be unsound from inspiring English sources

The practice may be unsound, but the current accounting rules do not proscribe it.

Since South is known to have two or three spades, the no-trump game may be unsound.

The reason is that when p is provable in an arbitrary system S for mathematics, it does not follow that p is true, since S may be unsound.

The strength of our non-judgmental approach is that the presence of discrepancies, rather than any inferred mechanism, is the signal that a trial may be unsound.

The agent's logic may also be unsound, in the sense that there might be instances out of the awareness of the agent (say monitors of unfamiliar brands) that falsify some of the agent's constraints (which do hold of all ACME monitors).

He added, "A person who is unsound may be very clever, but 'he's unsound' was a very serious blot on your c.v".

But I worry that the logic of this scenario — in essence, counting on an orderly panic — may be intrinsically unsound.

Accordingly, a study with a high level of reporting quality may be methodologically unsound (low methodological quality) and vice versa.

Though it may serve as a valuable evidence for humanitarian intervention, the utilization of mortality data to make timely policy decisions is dependent on the available data which may be anecdotal, unsound or unrepresentative (Mark Phelan, U.S. Department of State) [ 23].

Abandoned buildings are often abandoned for a good reason; they may be structurally unsound, weather or water damaged, infested with insects, rodents, birds or even bats.

The well-intentioned clinical decisions and judgments of yesterday may turn out to be unsound in the searchlight of today's ethical scrutiny.