Sentence examples for plausible grounding from inspiring English sources
But it also made it seem more plausible, grounding it in a sense of reality.
Critics continue today to argue that a principle of beneficence that requires persons, governments, and corporations to seriously disrupt their projects and plans in order to benefit the poor and underprivileged exceeds the limits of ordinary moral obligations and have no plausible grounding in moral theory.
"There is no plausible ground for arguing they're hopelessly deadlocked," he said.
Yet he added that Theresa May was "unlikely to have made that decision without substantial and plausible grounds".
Given the jingoism coming from American quarters, Russia enjoys, as is its wont, plausible grounds for appealing to the simple logic of tit for tat.
"Apparently, after an examination by the Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology, the government found sufficient plausible grounds to confront the U.S. government," Der Spiegel wrote.
Andrew Tyrie, the committee's chair and Conservative MP for Chichester, said: "No doubt we will want to examine the workability of the proposals on child benefit – a number of experts have challenged the scheme on a number of plausible grounds.
The most plausible ground is the conscious and rational one that race is irrelevant to the badness of someone's suffering, so these differential feelings, however natural, are a poor guide to how we should treat people.
Marable shows us Malcolm in Africa, watched by the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and points out "the David-versus-Goliath dimension": "Malcolm had few resources and was traveling without bodyguards, yet the attorney general and the F.B.I. director were so fearful of what he alone might accomplish that they searched for any plausible grounds to arrest and prosecute him upon his return".
Critics explore whether or not the doctrine is normatively stable: Do any plausible grounds there might be for denying Lockean private ownership of the world also generate grounds for denying individual self-ownership?
Some philosophers have argued that certain capacities fit the bill; others argue that there is no quality possessed by all humans that could be a plausible ground for a moral obligation of equal respect.
