Sentences with phrase «flimsy grounds»

Coming as a reason to cheer for those seeking settlement of insurance claims, the State Consumer Commission has now ruled that insurance firms can not reject claims of settlement on «flimsy grounds».

As blogger Tom Smith asks, if the AALS is going to boycott the hotel on such flimsy grounds, why not just kick those law professors who disagree with same sex marriage out of the AALS?

The second prevalent critique concerns the application of long - term solitary to an ever - growing cohort of prisoners, often on flimsy grounds.

In a lesson about using «flimsy grounds» for stopping people on suspicion of texting while driving, an Ontario Superior Court judge has thrown out an alcohol - related conviction after a cop stopped a driver he thought had a cellphone in his hand while at a red light.

«This was an investigation that used an initial stop on flimsy grounds which became immediately an investigation of a drinking and driving offence for which admittedly there was not even a hint of articulable cause,» he wrote.

It is disappointing to see opposition to mitochondrial transfer based on such flimsy grounds.

Israelis are taking over Palestinian land and expropriating it on flimsy grounds, day - by - day.

The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture's dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants.

Seldom, I think, has a theory been so widely accepted on more flimsy grounds.»

Twitter has never preached a «don't be evil» mantra like some other Internet companies, but banning a user on such flimsy grounds is a pretty clear case of censorship.

The video below produced by the personal injury law firm of Trolman, Glaser & Lichtman in New York is a good example of a law firm video that is refreshingly creative and innovative - essentially, the video pokes fun at personal injury lawyers by acknowledging - «tongue in cheek» - the public's perception that personal injury lawyers commence lawsuits on the flimsiest grounds (in the video, a prospective client is claiming he suffered «pain and suffering» when power was lost during a stellar performance on his favorite video game; he now wants to sue the utility).

Not exact matches

They mismeasure, they discard inconvenient data, they assign correlation on the flimsiest of grounds.

Safe standing sections are now clearly inevitable and being held up only by a stale government on the flimsiest of grounds.

The political parties showed no interest in the Constitutional Assembly election in 2010 which the Supreme Court decided to annul on flimsy if not illegal grounds.

Events like some of those described here — with six Supreme Court judges annulling a national election on flimsy if not illegal grounds, Parliament deliberately disrespecting the overwhelming result of a constitutional referendum — are simply not supposed to happen in a democracy.