Sentence examples for sound grounds from inspiring English sources

It was at the White House Correspondents Associationn's Dinner, which I was attending at a friend's urging, on the sound grounds Voltaire invoked when he went to the male brothel: "Once a philosopher, twice a pervert".

"There has been a profound and palpable belief that justice had not been done [and] it is clear there are sound grounds for this application," he said.

Although this finding has sound grounds, our study proposes that the argument in the contrary is more probable to prevail in the study area (Wilson and Getnet 2011) and hypothesized that male-headed households are more likely to adapt to climate change.

In addition to her technically sound ground strokes, which she hits with tremendous pace, Lisicki possesses deft touch.

But the S.E.C. also says that Xerox changed the assumptions regularly, and it appears to be on sound ground that those changes should have been disclosed.

His internet cafés have driven down prices sharply.It would be nice to report that, with its sound grounding in economics, everything in the easy empire was going swimmingly.

The secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Michael Pezzullo, said the government believed it was "on legally sound ground" but would not release advice from the solicitor general to show that was the case.

Lane Fox assumes that his reader will have a sound grounding in Augustine's work – it seems unlikely that anyone buying this book would not – and so his methodology is an unashamedly highbrow one, seeking to illuminate both the man's thoughts and life.

That's certainly a laudable goal, and de Blasio was on sound ground when he pointed to New York's long history of progressive attempts to make it a reality, from Jacob Riis to Al Smith to Fiorello LaGuardia, whom he trumpeted as the city's greatest leader.

"All I can repeat is evidence we gave last week... that the government has advice to hand that suggests that we are on legally sound ground, it's defensible, and it's a common practice - common enough almost to be invariably the case - that legal opinions are not made public by way of submission to committees".

Nick Brady is on sound ground when he talks about Latin America.