Sentence examples for on questionable grounds from inspiring English sources

But Kristol in that passage lays out, with a peremptory air, an orthodoxy, sometimes on reasonable grounds (not even Karl Marx would dispute that Aristotle outranks Marx), sometimes on questionable grounds (suppose you wanted to read about the events of Marx's lifetime — what good would Aristotle do you, then?), but always emphatically.

Rosser, unfortunately, chooses to argue for those changes on questionable grounds: that women are needed to meet an impending shortage of scientific talent and because they bring special insights to research.

But many diplomats have privately indicated that this would amount to an invasion of the country on questionable grounds.

But instead of being embarrassed or feeling that our movement was founded on questionable grounds, we consider it a lesson for how vigilant you have to be of the different forms of oppression patriarchy can take.

The logbooks of the expedition failed to clearly state where and when the small emu individuals were collected, and this has resulted in a plethora of scientific names subsequently being coined for either bird, many on questionable grounds, and the idea that all specimens had originated from Kangaroo Island.

That so significant a public trust is in private hands, and on such questionable grounds, is what we ought to worry about.

France, for instance, declined a request by NATO military chiefs for the deployment of the alliance's out-of-country reserve, a French battalion, on the questionable ground that it had to stay in Europe in case of trouble in the Balkans.

Russians were consuming half the production, until it was banned on questionable health grounds in May.For its part, Georgia wants to reopen the bilateral trade deal the two countries have already reached in preparation for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation: unwise perhaps, if they were to end up with even worse terms.

And in 2003, at the time of the Iraq war, Nicholas Hytner chose the play to begin his tenure at the National Theatre and showed Adrian Lester's king launching a foreign invasion on questionable legal grounds and making chauvinist speeches to TV cameras and embedded journalists.

But legal scholars have noted that the tailoring rule stands on questionable legal grounds and could be invalidated by the courts.

In the hyper-competitive world we live in, defending practices on questionable constitutional grounds based on claims that Americans are somewhat safer does nothing to assure billions of international customers of American Internet companies.