Sentence examples for unreasonable ground from inspiring English sources

For instance, West brackets a line in Book 13 in which Hector springs down from his chariot, on the not unreasonable ground that Hector hasn't been riding in a chariot.

Devendra Raj Pandey, an economist asked to chair an independent committee supervising disarmament, declined the position on the not unreasonable ground that it was not his area of expertise.The Maoists, at least, seem intent on joining the political mainstream.

This was curious: Mr Museveni has always justified his political system on the not unreasonable grounds that it is broad-based and all-inclusive.

Teachers complain that they can now be fired on unreasonable grounds, and they have criticised the circumvention of the legislative process.

Unions protest that teachers may now be fired on unreasonable grounds, or that experienced ones, who cost more, will be laid off first.

The arts minister has written to the Australia Council, which distributes arts funding on behalf of the federal government, and asked them to develop a policy to penalise arts organisations that refuse funding from corporate sponsors on "unreasonable grounds".

Predictably, it didn't go too well; Pete woke up hopelessly hung over after a work do, and Karen refused to go to school, on the (not unreasonable) grounds that it was Friday 13th.

When Merthyr Tydfil activists decided that their MP, another troublemaker called SO (Stephen Daviesshoulduld ought to down at the 1970 election on the not unreasonable grounds that he was 83, he stood as an independent – and won.

An attempt to bring the UK cases to Merck's backyard in New Jersey was unceremoniously booted out by the judge on the (not unreasonable) grounds that surely the UK courts were better suited to deal with the UK cases.

They let me keep the long johns, presumably on the not unreasonable grounds that no one else would want an item of clothing that had been in direct contact with my testicles.

It was only in the 1950s that researchers on Baffin Island, in Canada, first reported such sudden movements of ice and frozen earth and even today earthquakes and icequakes are usually studied by different groups of experts on the not unreasonable grounds that their causes are different.