"ground" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Now he thought he could evict Ky from her ship on specious grounds, present it to Stella as a gift, and...what?
- Zamora's removal was made on specious grounds, using a constitutional technicality.
- Not only has she continued to refuse, on insultingly specious grounds, to appoint an independent counsel.
- Both men said that after they complained repeatedly they were fired on specious grounds.
- But an attempt to derail them, on the specious grounds that the proposals are not as perfect as they might be, could amount to one.
- They often justify their inaction on specious philosophical or ethical grounds.
- The whole European enterprise is now devoted to keeping the euro alive on the utterly specious grounds that the currency is synonymous with "Europe".
- Do we want to live in a world were lawyers aren't free to sue people on specious grounds using improper actions and disregarding adverse judgements?
- Official intervention in May by the Assembly Transportation Committee forced the state agency to reconsider the proposal, previously rejected on transparently self-serving and specious grounds.
- Their administration was fraught with politics, and some artists' cards were revoked on specious grounds.
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