The rector, or board chief, Helen E. Dragas, orchestrated the removal, offering what the professors' group called vague, unfounded reasons.
It was a lust for oil that drove the actions of both countries, though they gave altruistic, and unfounded, reasons for their wars: the destruction of Saddam Hussein's WMD in Iraq and Mikheil Saakashvili's alleged "genocide" in South Ossetia.
Justice Hugo Black delivered the opinion for the majority: "We cannot reject as unfounded," he reasoned, "the judgment of the military authorities... that there were disloyal members of [the Japanese-American] population, whose number and strength could not be precisely and quickly ascertained".
What Robert Musil called the "liberal scraps of an unfounded faith in reason and progress" have yet again failed modern human beings in their all-important task of understanding their experience.
We believe such objections to be unfounded, for two reasons.
And the last argument that warns us about the consequences of promoting democracy by referring to Bush's failures in Iraq is unfounded for two reasons.
However, this explanation seems unfounded for 2 reasons.
Bolivian authorities called the episode a hijacking, saying the reason was unfounded suspicions that Mr. Snowden was on board, and they accused the United States of being behind it.
"It's not that his reasons were unfounded, but they were not things I cared about.
As a consequence, they see the picture of politics I've just suggested — according to which democracies should be spaces of reasons — as unfounded and naïve.
