A decision made on technical grounds, many felt, would be easier to defend than one based on political considerations.

When the Soviet atomic bomb project began in 1942, Ioffe was asked to lead the technical effort, but refused the job on the grounds that he was too old.

Sir Nigel Rodley questioned the distinction between conscientious objection on religious grounds and on philosophical or moral grounds. Why did objectors on philosophical and moral grounds have to serve longer than those who objected on religious grounds?

Likewise, in Poland, following a Constitutional Court ruling in November 2012 that struck down on technical grounds a provision permitting religious slaughter, the government promised that the practice would remain legal.

Interviewer On what grounds?

History provides grounds for optimism.

Alms given on religious grounds.

Such experiences provide grounds for optimism.

mandatory grounds for refusing to extradite

optional grounds for refusing to extradite

Request for Grounds Pass Security Staff

But there are strong grounds for optimism.

I see two potential grounds for concern.

None of these legal grounds holds water.

Substantive issues Discrimination on grounds of citizenship

We are looking for theories with scientific grounds.

But there are also grounds to be optimistic.

The Brazilian system permits suspension on other grounds.

A woman volunteering to clean protest grounds in Kyiv.

General grounds for refusal to provide assistance (article 471)

Grounds for refusing to extradite a person (article 493)

9.2.1 Prohibition of dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy

Between 1960 (the year of independence) and 1983, recruitment to the Central African Civil Service and appointments to political office and senior administrative and technical posts were carried out without any discrimination or distinction on ethnic, tribal, regional or political grounds.

(d) Grounds of appeal before the United Nations Appeals Tribunal

Perhaps this particular attack can be justified on those grounds.

This may be good on efficiency and even equity grounds.

Even Marx justified British rule in India on these grounds.

These factors give good grounds for expecting further dollar weakness.

Piketty sees that as grounds to be a little optimistic.

These governments justify their decisions on security and economic grounds.

Nour was released on health grounds on 18 February 2009.

No one may be detained or arrested without lawful grounds.

The ECHR lists exhaustively the only grounds upon which resort may be made to potentially lethal force and the only grounds upon which a person may be detained.

(c) Mechanisms for the formal removal of judges, definition of the grounds of misconduct or incapacity and the means for the establishment of such grounds in a specific case

The complainant argued that there were substantial grounds for fearing exposure to torture, contending that the existence of systematic human rights violations in a country sufficiently shows such grounds.

This is not reason for despair or grounds for acting unilaterally.

There are several grounds on which to justify ESM in services.

NON DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF MARRIAGE, PREGNANCY AND MATERNITY LEAVE

The Court of Appeal based its decision on the following grounds.

The decision may be appealed on very limited legal grounds only.

However, the author does not explain the grounds for the complaint.

The Committee must not miss that momentous opportunity on any grounds.

So leprosy should not be grounds for denying anyone the right to marry, or for divorce nor should it constitute grounds for separating a child from his or her parents.

The Technical Advisory Group has provided effective technical support.

Yet there are grounds to hope that it is within our reach.