Word: groundlessly
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...fears turned out to be groundless. The one emotion everyone showed was happiness to see me alive, maimed or not. But two exchanges stood out. My sister surprised me with a gift: a 1900 silver dollar our gambler father had won in Las Vegas and given to her in 1956 when she was 8 years...
...crimes against his own people. True, opinion polls suggested that Iraqis overwhelmingly preferred democracy to Saddam. But U.S. voters did not see these as sufficient grounds for risking American lives. The Bush Administration's contentions that Saddam had links to al-Qaeda and possessed weapons of mass destruction proved groundless...
...front page on Feb. 10 detailed Professor Judith L. Ryan’s intention to place a motion of no confidence in Summers on the agenda of an upcoming faculty meeting; a Feb. 13 editorial urged the Faculty to “end its groundless campaign to oust the president...
...hearings. In the meantime, last week’s UN report draws on information from former detainees and their lawyers, concluding that some of the practices at Guantanamo “must be assessed as amounting to torture.” Administration officials have attacked the report as groundless, since members of the panel have not visited Guantanamo. But the human rights experts’ trip to Guantanamo was cancelled when the U.S. refused to grant them “full and unrestricted access” to the institution, disabling the panel from speaking freely with prisoners. It is debatable...
Wilson does not go so far as to claim it was the CIA that asked him to conspire to kill two of his prosecutors, a charge that stands. One of them, Lawrence Barcella, whom Wilson names as a defendant, says, "His latest claims are groundless." As with similar cases in the past, the defendants will probably ask for a dismissal on the grounds that they were acting in their official capacities, for which the law provides immunity in certain cases. Some may argue that Wilson's sale of explosives to Libya was illegal, regardless of whether the CIA was involved...