Sentence examples for the reasonable ground from inspiring English sources

Her request was gently but firmly denied, on the reasonable ground that massaman's potent, sturdy blend of coconut milk, peanuts, onions and potatoes depends on long stewing with chunks of beef.

For more than a century, public officials have repeatedly introduced anti-scalping legislation; many such laws have been struck down as unconstitutional, on the reasonable ground that a ticket scalper is no different from an art dealer or a real-estate speculator.

In an extreme form this would imply that God dictated the message to the speakers or writers word by word, but most proponents of verbal inspiration repudiate such a view on the reasonable ground that this would leave no room for the evident individuality of style and vocabulary found in the various authors.

But there are selectorial mumblings about Robert Croft on the reasonable grounds that he is bowling better than his rivals.

Some modern historians have objected to the posthumous title Iron Duke on the reasonable grounds that he was neither cold nor hard-hearted.

When, in 2009, he applied for parole on compassionate grounds, the then home secretary Jack Straw refused his application on the reasonable grounds that he had shown not a shred of remorse for his crime.

Mr Clegg never much liked the policy, trying and failing to persuade his party to ditch it on the reasonable grounds that middle-class privileges cannot be sacred in tough times.

If Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK Partyy has championed women's right to wear an Islamic headscarf, it's been on the reasonable grounds that what people choose to put on their heads is their business alone.

The Federal Communications Commission has ducked the issue of Internet and other digital services on the reasonable grounds that it was too early in the process to know how to regulate.

He was expelled in 1957 for refusing to sit an exam in military strategy (a national service duty) on the reasonable grounds that he had come to the place to study music.

The first short-story collection by a master of the intelligent suspense novel offers tightly written narratives about people who recoil from facing reality on the reasonable grounds that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing.