An indictment filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan accused the doctor, Stan Xuhui Li, of prescribing pain medicine for medically unsound reasons to 20 patients, seven of whom died from overdoses.
After receiving the note, Justice Edward J. McLaughlin read the jurors a script, known as an Allen charge, directing them to continue deliberating and to abandon any opinions held for pride or other unsound reasons.
The proliferation of guidebooks that treat universities and now high schools as if they were no more complex than blockbuster movies -- this year's surveys include The Princeton Review's 345 Best Colleges (up from 311 "best" three years ago) -- has left Lloyd Thacker worrying that more and more children are making educational choices for unsound reasons.
A scientifically supported claim might be built on a foundation of unsound understanding.
Ensure you are not leaving on unsound grounds.
These well-worn ears, for reasons perhaps unsound in terms of a literal reading of the score, continue to prefer a certain deliberation, flexibility and weight in Beethoven.
Though apparently, such analysis leads to a conservative design of the structure, it may lead to unsound design for several reasons.
In addition, the conclusions of moral psychology can have substantive moral implications, for it may be reasonable to assume that if there are deep reasons that a given type of moral reasoning cannot be practical, then any principles that demand such reasoning are unsound.
Abandoned buildings are often abandoned for a good reason; they may be structurally unsound, weather or water damaged, infested with insects, rodents, birds or even bats.
This reasoning isn't unsound.
