But administrative failure in another crucial area - partnerships with local businesses -eclipsed these sound ideas.

On the face of it, it seems a relatively sound idea.

"It struck me that dealing with the farmers on a cash basis was a very sound idea."

"A sound idea," Captain Skearbaek said from behind her.

The state sees the project as an environmentally sound idea that would speed up traffic.

"It was really a very sound idea," said the old man.

' Charity events are a commercially sound idea for all involved,'he says.

This club is open to all those interested in the development and application of theoretically sound ideas in the construction of computer systems.

Reducing insurance rates by discouraging frivolous lawsuits is a perfectly sound idea.

Storing wood and sheltering the source- fire in the cave were sound ideas, even though they had been turned to self-serving purposes.