Sentence examples for on legitimate grounds from inspiring English sources

The government argued in Strasbourg that this section not only justifies but even requires the release of a prisoner whose continued detention cannot be justified on legitimate grounds of punishment, reform or retribution.

"We had to find a way in our position between being too rigid and closing any type of hopes… and being too open on legitimate grounds.

This had led to an unregulated boom in the amount of dispensaries, which has in turn sparked a glut of community complaints, both on legitimate grounds (dispensaries operating in close proximity to rehab clinics, and schools) and less-than (dispensaries that will bring gang warfare to our streets).

But such debates are unlikely to stay on these legitimate grounds.

I would like to think that he would have been confirmed without further ado — or, better, rejected, but on the legitimate grounds of inadequate qualifications and unknowable or abhorrent views.

The problem is that using stop checks to tackle illegal immigration is about as effective as using stop and search crackdowns to win the War on Drugs; you might catch one or two offenders, but in the process you end up alienating immigrants who are here on entirely legitimate grounds.

The stand-up thing would have been to fire Mr. Hurd on the altogether legitimate grounds that the directors didn't have faith in his leadership.

"There were no legitimate grounds on which to deny our application and based on the questioning we received it was clear that the concerns of committee members stemmed from our human rights advocacy work.

"Punishing the people of Indi for electing an independent MP is not legitimate grounds on which to base decisions about the expenditure of a significant sum of taxpayer money".

It seems reasonable that Foxman, a Holocaust survivor, has legitimate grounds on which to be alarmed when a prominent member state of the United Nations, Iran, holds a conference promoting denial of the Holocaust and Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks openly about destroying the state of Israel.

The supply of nuclear fuel would be guaranteed by international agreements, giving countries like Iran no legitimate grounds to insist on a program of their own.