However, it met with disaster when he courted the glitzy but unsound DeLorean Motors to build its experimental gull-winged car in West Belfast.
Alongside a legal filing from 1812, when Peter Brengle of Frederick sued in court after purchasing an "unsound Negro named Harry, who after the sale died," a text in the display case poses a hypothetical: What if you bought a TV, took it home and found out it didn't work.
Then he was sent to jail for six years, until an appeal court ruled that his conviction had been unsound.
Along with several other bombastic evangelicals including Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts and Jim Bakker, LaHaye was among a party invited to meet Jimmy Carter for a White House breakfast in 1980, where they were shocked to find the president – himself a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher – was fundamentally unsound because he supported equal rights and the supreme court's abortion judgment.
This power has been left to the courts, which can deny a person found to have unsound mind from participating in an election.
"She has been of unsound mind since the death of Father," Robert told the court.
If the courts were willing to declare our system for appointing counsel legally unsound, you can bet that change would be quick.
Writing on behalf of the four dissenters, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the court had embraced a "uniform national rule that is both conceptually unsound and likely to result in confusion".
A recent court ruling that the law against prostitution discriminates against women, and so is unsound, has left many wondering whether the oldest profession could also become a useful source of tax.Since 1996, new laws allowing casinos and gambling have helped to divert profits from crooks to the provinces' taxmen.
The banks are so keen to avoid write-offs that they often approve unsound corporate reorganisation plans and unrealistic estimates of profits, according to Yang Sung Tae, a Seoul bankruptcy-court judge.A good example is Samsung's expensive new car company, a white elephant that opened for business last year just as South Korea's car market lurched to a halt.
