Sentence examples for obscure grounds from inspiring English sources

Tellingly, although Mr Jonathan chose to suspend Mr Sanusi on obscure grounds, he has supported Diezani Alison-Madueke, the oil minister and a close ally, in the face of more serious and concrete allegations against her ministry.

But it was on fairly obscure grounds: Defendants proved they had fixed their prices because they were legally compelled to do it, with formal proof provided by the Chinese government itself.

Even the Pulitzer winning journalist Paul Watson accepts that the fate of two 19th century British explorer ships might appear obscure grounds upon which to go to war with your employers and accuse the Canadian Prime Minister of a cover-up.

Earth's atmosphere obscures ground-based astronomers' view of celestial objects by absorbing or distorting light rays from them.

"Although the future of Portsmouth football club comes hand-in-hand with Fratton Park, if we were to lose for some obscure reason the football ground that we have known and loved for 52 years, [then] there is a plan B, but I am not an liberty to say what that plan B is. "I can promise you this club will not fold whether we win or lose.

Supposing that the concept is primitive, it's important to keep in mind that this doesn't mean that talk of grounding is obscure, or that grounding claims are confused or unjustified.

By that time the snowfall was dense and obscuring the ground, almost exactly as Chencho had predicted that morning.

In some places, especially the northern China Plain, the haze is so thick that it obscures the ground almost completely.

"A heavy dust haze rising to a considerable height almost completely obscured the ground from Forbesganj to the higher mountain ranges.

Neither of the Air Force fighter pilots saw anything exit the airliner, either visually or on radar, nor did they see a parachute open; but at night, with extremely limited visibility and cloud cover obscuring any ground lighting below, an airborne human figure clad entirely in black clothing could easily have gone undetected.

Untold numbers of detailed studies on the morphology of Lepidoptera, especially of genital structures and wing venation, have furthered our understanding of the relatedness of species, genera and families, but the relationships among larger assemblages have remained obscure on morphological grounds.