Sentence examples for no apparent basis from inspiring English sources

The charges, which carry a possible sentence of up to twenty years, have no apparent basis in fact — which may be why the government is choosing to pillory in secret a man whose profession was openness.

In the absence of overt racial slurs, Judge Scheindlin repeatedly asked a city lawyer, would it be appropriate to infer that a police encounter was racially motivated if an officer stopped a black man with no apparent basis?

"For New Yorkers hosting holiday parties, this is the best way to give back to those in need after Sandy," VenueBook's chairman, Kelsey Recht, said in a news release, providing no apparent basis for the claim.

Here we have a more threatening problem, since there is no apparent basis for denying that an argument having this form satisfies Hempel's criteria and therefore ought to be both explanatory and predictive.

The difference in the performance of the controls in each arm of this experiment is striking and without apparent basis, with essentially no usage of the distal APA site in the duplication blot and substantial (essentially that of the duplication patients) in the deletion blot.

The apparent basis of the ruling was Bernard L. Madoff's registration as a stockbroker.

There is more apparent basis for warnings about the Philippines, where a violent Muslim insurgency has been active.

Never before has a Premier League match been interrupted by a middle-aged man protesting about Ryanair's recruitment policies, on the apparent basis that his daughter did not get a job with the airline.

When questioned about the fact that six of the 16 "priority investors", who were chosen to receive an earlier and larger share of the flotation on the apparent basis of being long-term investors, had actually sold their shares almost immediately for huge profit, Cable replied: "It is how markets work".

The apparent basis for calling the money shift "evidence-based" is HUD's Family Options Study.

Fans variously claim the title for either winning the East Anglian Derby, finishing highest in the league, having the better current league position, having the more successful club history or for reasons without any apparent logical basis.