Word: unsoundness
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...diplomats in Geneva are not equipped with full knowledge," Leet declared. "I am trying desperately to let people in authority know that the seismological information given them is scientifically unsound...
...School of Education is scattered across Cambridge in nine run-down, 19th century houses. Most of the buildings were recently declared "structurally unsound" in a University Buildings and Grounds study...
...Christ would have rejected "this skillfully engineered besetting temptation." So would the Founding Fathers, for "disposing of the maximum quantity of consumer goods was not the purpose of the American Revolution. What is more, it is not the true end of man." According to Toynbee, Madison Avenue is also unsound economically: "An economy that depends for its survival on an artificial stimulation of material wants seems un likely to survive for very long...
...dynamic principle's motivating force--large numbers of people--has frightened some city planners. Many 20th century planners and architects, Creese continued, have forsaken the original conceptions of the street, skyscraper, and suburb in the quest for quick, but architecturally unsound solutions to the problems posed by a demanding urban population...
...that Hook has any use for such traditional faith. He regards all varieties of organized religion as philosophically unsound and politically dangerous. To him, religious doctrines "constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability" when tested on the scale of logic. Even if a naturalist woke up in the presence of God, and were thus proven wrong, says Hook, the theory he held while on earth would still have been more reasonable than the supernaturalist who is "unreasonable, even if it turns out he is right...