Riel, with several associates, was tried and, despite evidence that he was of unsound mind, convicted of treason, though with a recommendation for mercy.
Echo doesn't know it — or anything else for that matter, since she is a blank slate — but she has a champion on the outside: an F.B.I. agent, Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett), who suspects there is something unsound going on at the Dollhouse and is intent on investigating, even though his superiors pay no attention to his hunches.
The authority said the planning inspectorate had examined Medway's core strategy and declared it potentially unsound, mainly because the area was a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), even though an appeal process was ongoing.
Though apparently, such analysis leads to a conservative design of the structure, it may lead to unsound design for several reasons.
Coming to see Unsound for a second year, the shock of the new has worn off, though it's still disconcerting – then funny – to see once again that the queue for the gents is much longer than the queue for the ladies, such is the imperturbably male-dominated nature of this music's fans.
Though scientists and doctors have long criticized this diet as medically unsound, the diet endures among devotees.
Though their true agenda, tax cuts for the rich, was both economically unsound and politically unpopular, Chait writes, Bush and his conservative foot soldiers deceived the public and the press before pushing their policy — four huge tax cuts in six years, in case you lost count — on an enfeebled and corrupted Congress.
So even though many compatibilists are committed to thinking that the Consequence Argument is unsound, it nevertheless set the agenda for many contemporary compatibilist theories of free will and moral responsibility.
The foundations were unsound.
