Sentence examples for need not ground from inspiring English sources

Indeed, even reliance or expectations based on a promise need not ground obligation (in either promise or contract): where a third person other than the promise overhears an agreement between two others and relies on or forms expectations of its performance, this does not (without more) create promissory or contractual obligations in favor of the third.

Ethical Culture, a movement based upon the conviction that moral tenets need not be grounded in religious or philosophical dogma.

*** At an interesting site called Secular Right ("We believe that conservative principles and policies need not be grounded in a specific set of supernatural claims"), "David Hume Razib Khanan) takes me to task — correctly, it would appear — for mangling the attitude toward abortion of European conservatives in general and German Christian Democrats in particular.

But the cosmopolitan's wariness towards very strong rights to culture and towards national self-determination need not be grounded in a wholesale skepticism about the importance of particular cultural attachments.

At the outset of the Kosovo war, the Clinton administration reassured the Serbs that they need not fear a ground assault.

One need not have serious grounding in science to understand the difference between methane and carbon dioxide.

From this, he reckoned that a transmitter on the ground need not drown out the signal from a satellite that was broadcasting on the same frequency.

But the Adoption Access Network suggests that common ground need not be a watering down of a commitment; in the best-case scenario, it's an expansion of it.

These grounds need not exclude each other and there may be a case for choosing the same variable on both grounds.

This belief, based on racial and political grounds, need not be seriously considered.

Because of this disposition, we need not address appellants' alternative grounds for reversal.