Sentence examples for plausible basis for from inspiring English sources

"There is no plausible basis for arguing that there is a federal constitutional flaw in the carefully reasoned way in which the Florida court deliberated".

The first challenge was a strictly legal one: persuading any justices who might be inclined to intervene in this state election law dispute that there is a plausible basis for the Supreme Court to assert its jurisdiction.

"Telling someone you will seek legal redress unless they are willing to pay a certain cost is not within the extortion statues," Mr. Gillers said, "as long as you have a plausible basis for your legal claims".

Since some testimony involves secrets, there was a plausible basis for allowing the military judge, Col. James L. Pohl of the Army, to control the audio stream available to journalists and spectators viewing the proceedings.

The basic problem is that, once we give up the claim that a fertilized egg is a human person (has full moral standing), there is no plausible basis for claiming that all further stages of development are human persons.

In this instance, although the consequences of turning permissible vouchers into required vouchers would have been profoundly unsettling, the court's recent insistence on an equal place for religion at the public table provided at least a plausible basis for that outcome.

The economic disparity and bad blood that haunt outback communities provide an all-too-plausible basis for the film's crime story.

Nevertheless, the current results do reveal the beginnings of a biologically plausible basis set for concrete nouns, and they furthermore have the potential to be extended to other factors for other types of concepts.

In other words, we add the regulation against discrimination for just those cases where we have a plausible basis, such as statistical, for the temptation otherwise.

The molecular mechanisms supporting a hypersensitivity to exogenous DA are yet to be determined, though in the case of the dat-1 mutants, a plausible basis is a reduced requirement for exogenous DA to achieve DOP-3 activation in animals that cannot capitalize on the DA clearance activity provided by DAT-1.

Judges are very, very liberal in allowing defenses, but there has to be some plausible factual basis for the defense theory".