Heretofore the sole ground for divorce in this country has been adultery.
Campbell was convicted of membership of an unlawful organisation – he appealed on the sole ground that the Real IRA was not proscribed.
"In the United States," it continued, "punishment is absent for those guilty of such tragedies on, apparently, the sole ground that they are 'full-fledged' citizens, whereas their adoptees are not".
"Has the time not come to legislate to remove all concepts of fault as a basis for divorce and to leave irretrievable breakdown as the sole ground?" he asked.
Since 1976 the sole ground for divorce has been the breakdown of the marriage, which is presumed if the spouses have lived apart for a year and are in agreement on the divorce, or if the spouses have lived apart for three years.
France's highest court in administrative matters, the Council of State, reached the same conclusion just a year ago when it denied citizenship to a woman who has lived in France for eight years, speaks perfect French, has a French husband and four children born in France, on the sole ground that she wears a burqa.
"I come before you as an Author only — it is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.'" Much as I might agree, my own case strikes me as having more in common with that of Toby Forward, the Anglican vicar who, in the nineteen-eighties, wrote a series of stories posing as a teenage girl by the name of Rahila Khan.
In Sections III and IV, he argues that the sole ground for approving of justice and political allegiance is that they are useful to society.
This view of Fechner stems from the extreme reliance Fechner placed upon analogical arguments for the existence of mental qualities, and which he regarded as the sole ground for the attribution of mind to anything other than oneself.
Through year-round dynamic simulation, it was found that the HRCS could have 43.8%, 53.3%, and 68.0% primary energy saving when compared to the sole ground-source heat pump system, the sole solar absorption cooling system, and the conventional vapour compression air-conditioning system, respectively.
