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Some legal scholars contacted by Newsweek were appalled by what they called the unsoundness of such arguments.

New Torture Furor 2007

a political doctrine whose unsoundness is already manifested in the fact that it requires human sacrifice for its realization.

Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture 1987

A faithful and zealous evangelical pastor at a period of general debility in the Church of England, he was hampered throughout his ministrations by the governing body, who not only had the right of selecting their ministers, but exercised a jealous censorship on their teaching and practice, when they showed any tendency to "unsoundness" or undue enthusiasm.

Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See George Worley

And besides theories of religion at variance with experience, which have always a kind of unsoundness, the attempt of men to apply

Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906

Allegations of "unsoundness" or of "free thinking" became barriers to success in life, and those against whom they were made became lowered in the esteem of their fellows.

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

And besides theories of religion at variance with experience, which have always a kind of unsoundness, the attempt of men to apply Scripture to their own lives in the letter rather than in the spirit, has been very injurious in other ways to the faith of Christ.

The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894

"unsoundness," since the hock thus affected is less able to endure severe labor, and is more liable to give way with the slightest effort.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

I am still mystified how I won first prize despite the unsoundness of my project, and I retain a dislike for scientific competitions.

Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography 2009

So a month or so back, stwish (who happens to be my dad, and who also happens to be a luthier) send me an electric guitar he made from the wood of a bradford pear that netcurmudgeon's dad cut down due to structural unsoundness, which wood I then drove down to North Carolina in the bed of Eunice, the now-dead former little red truck that could.

if we got married, would that be cool? frankwu 2009

More than a month ago, the visual oddity Davis produced was a man posing as a demon sheep amidst a pure flock, a metaphor for the fiscal unsoundness of Fiorina's Senate primary opponent, Tom Campbell.

Demon Sheep Ad Man Strikes Again, Morphs Boxer Into A Blimp (VIDEO) 2010