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.
Grooveshark may be treading questionable ground with its business model (not that I believe that personally), but it's at least a little scary that Google's in a position to decide that for us.
That so significant a public trust is in private hands, and on such questionable grounds, is what we ought to worry about.
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.
As we kept up with Kardashian, kept tabs on a constipated Congress and beheld both the turmoil in Greece and the travails of Herman Cain, we summoned astonishment where there was questionable grounds for it and an ire sometimes out of proportion with the circumstances.
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.
A1 Congress Reports on Spying President Bush's rationale for eavesdropping on Americans without warrants rests on questionable legal ground, and Congress does not appear to have given him the authority to order the surveillance, a Congressional analysis said.
Accurate estimation of carbon loss and recovery based on evolution of canopy openness is questionable, as ground damage remain poorly assessed with remote sensing and canopy rapidly closes with crown expansion of survivors.
