Unsound Sentence Examples

On a conviction of selling or exposing for sale, or having in his possession or on his premises unsound meat, the court may also revoke the licence.

Pasteur one day visited a brewery containing both sound and unsound beer.

Further, against the Platonic list it may be urged (I) that it is arbitrary, and (2) that the several virtues are not specifically distinct, that the basis of the division is unsound, and that there is overlapping.

Official corruption and speculation have led to some unsound ventures, but in the great majority of cases the lines constructed have been beneficial and productive.

The building societies and financial institutions in receipt of deposits, or so many of them as were on an unsound footing, failed at an early period of the depression, so also did the weaker banks.

Already events had shown that the feudatories, quite devoid of business experience, were not unlikely to dispose of these bonds and devote the proceeds to unsound enterprises.

The census of 1871 obtained for the first time a return of persons of unsound mind not confined in asylums. During the next ten years, the separate areas for which population returns had to be prepared were seriously multiplied by the creation of sanitary districts, to the number of 966.

Its liberal tendencies caused him to be accused of unsound views, and a most exhaustive report prepared by the Lancashire College committee was followed by numerous pamphlets for and against.

He began to conduct himself in a disorderly manner in the - House of Commons, and in 1852 he was found to be of unsound mind by a commission of lunacy.

But if the use of versions, or of an uncritical text of the original, was one condition unfavourable to criticism, another that was not less serious was the dominance over both Jews and Christians of unsound methods of interpretation - legal or dogmatic or allegorical.

Restrictions on speculative operations in real estate and on the use of hypothecated and discounted paper as security for other transactions, together with the publication of detailed monthly balance sheets, have kept these banks free from unsound methods, and their record thus far (1909) has been conspicuously good.

He saw that the theories of the origin of knowledge in idealistic epistemology are unsound.

The means, however, which Price proposed for the extinction of the debt are described by Lord Overstone 1 as " a sort of hocus-pocus machinery," supposed to work " without loss to any one," and consequently unsound.

In making armour-plates from steel ingots, as much as 40% of the metal may be rejected as unsound from this cause.

An ingot should always stand upright while solidifying, so that the unsound region due to the pipe may readily be cut off, leaving the rest of the ingot solid.

Hermann, Busolt and others had maintained that the lot was not used in Athens before the time of Cleisthenes; and in spite of the treatise, it must be admitted that there is no satisfactory evidence, historical or inferential, that their theory was unsound.

The misery of that struggle needed no aggravation, but was aggravated by the sufferings of an unsound body and an unsound mind.

The maintenance within the empire of a system so artificial and so unsound, involved in foreign affairs the policy of preventing the success of any movements by which it Metter- might be threatened.

Sound industrial concerns were little touched by it, but speculation had become so general that every class of society was affected, and in the investigation which followed it became apparent that some of the most distinguished members of the governing Liberal party, including at least two members of the government, were among those who had profited by the unsound finance.

But though he was hailed, especially in lb h France, as the pioneer of European civilization in (ii.) raim, the East, the unsound foundations of his authority d.

Thorough grinding and mixing are of the utmost importance, as otherwise the cement ultimately produced will be unsound and of inferior quality.

Other things being equal, the higher the percentage of lime within the limits indicated above the stronger is the cement, but such highly limed cement is less easy to burn than cement containing about 62% of lime; and unless the burning is thorough and the raw materials are intimately mixed, the cement is apt to be unsound.

The historical basis of the tradition is particularly unsound, there being two claimants to the name and honour.

Zeller has shown that the authority on which this view is based is entirely unsound.

In 355 B.C., he spoke the fatal word, which, a seeondor rather a thirdtime, demolished the essentially unsound power of Athens.

Himself the soul of honour and truthfulness, he had no toleration for the disingenuous arguments and the mis-statements of facts of those who wrote to support a theory or to defend an unsound cause.

If upon such inspection the meat, &c., appears to be diseased, unsound or unwholesome, it may be taken before a justice for the purpose of being condemned, and the person to whom the meat, &c., belongs or in whose possession it was found is liable to a penalty or, in the discretion of the justices, to imprisonment for three months without the option of a fine.

But to explain this modification is the business of psychology; it is enough now to see that the subject like all reals is necessarily unknown, and that, therefore, the idealist's theory of knowledge is unsound.

All male persons who are citizens of the United States or have declared their intention to become such at least thirty days before an election have the right of suffrage provided they have attained the age of twenty-one years, have resided in the state six months, are not of unsound mind, and have not been convicted of treason or felony.

There is nothing in any of the evidence to say that she was of unsound mind.

There is in the workhouse no male but 10 female paupers who are classed as of unsound mind.

The problem was in casting ductile steel into ingots without creating air pockets, which made the metal unsound.

In November 1995 the Vatican banned her teaching, branding it theologically unsound.

For example, the dwelling may be structurally unsound or incapable of habitation.

The bank refuses to do business with companies involved in the fur trade and rejects clients with poor labor practices or ecologically unsound policies.

It also seems a bit ethically unsound to allow the dead to hold control over the living in this way.

Thus studies should not be set up to confirm a hypothesis which is scientifically unsound.

In the case of pornography the claims of harm are not only unproven, but are likely to be fundamentally unsound.

Like Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, his methods had become unsound.

It may also be considered ecologically unsound if it results in the removal of significant wildlife habitat.

Check all plant supports and replace or mend any that look unsound.

The use of the historical method has, in fact, raised more reputations than it has destroyed, because by keeping carefully in view the conditions in which economic works have been written, it has shown that many theories hastily condemned as unsound by a priori critics had much to be said for them atthe time when they were propounded.

The jury on the inquest returned a verdict of suicide while in an unsound state of mind.

Ironing them yourself is evidence of an unsound mind.

The environmental argument for a motorway speed limit enforcement has a terminally unsound basis in fact.

Further, it could counter unsound practices within supermarkets.

Both in the pulpit and out of it they watched for unsound doctrine, and when he strayed they took him by the neck.

In past years, WH Smith, Sainsbury 's and M&S all suffered from either unsound strategy or inefficiencies, or both.

The demand for wool led to decades of unsound manufacturing practices, starting with the treatment of the sheep.

You should make sure you go to a site that's generally well-known and hasn't been criticized for being financially unsound or not paying when players try to cash out.

If the structure is unsound nothing else will be worth fixing.

Traditional cemeteries are therefore considered environmentally unsound.

For many teens, the years before adulthood are riddled with risky behaviors and unsound decisions, all for the sake of a little excitement.

Judging, then, by the extirpation and adoption of languages within the range of history, it is obvious that to classify mankind into races, Aryan, Semitic, Turanian, Polynesian, Kaffir, &c., on the mere evidence of language, is intrinsically unsound.

His fall proved on how unsound a basis his system had been built up.

A person of unsound mind can grant or take a lease if he is capable of contracting.

In 1649 he accompanied the mission of Henry, count of Nassau, to Denmark, and in 1651 entered the lists of science as an assailant of the unsound system of quadratures adopted by Gregory of St Vincent.

Again the formula of the Joint-Method, which contemplates the enumeration of cases " which have nothing in common but the absence of one circumstance," is ridiculously unsound as it stands.