legal foundation

This makes it very clear that there is a legal foundation for what we are doing.

The code thus provides the legal foundation for a market economy.

They will try to create advantages for people on the basis of this legal foundation.

In every industry, patents provide the legal foundation for innovation.

Yet the legal foundation was not nearly so sound.

The passage of time will not remedy a situation that had no legal foundation.

With this statement, the Court provided a legal foundation for victims' rights legislation.

"We consider this special practice to be without legal foundation and to constitute an abuse of the rules."

Such a finding lacks a plausible legal foundation in this case.

You were perfectly well able to propose legal foundations for other things in quick order.

Contracts are widely used in commercial law, and form the legal foundation for transactions across the world.

It further established legal foundations for workers' control over enterprises and expanded local government power.

Erisa is the legal foundation on which private pension and health plans are built.

The lawyers were trying to establish a legal foundation for showing the tapes to the jury.

From that time the English press maybe said to date its complete freedom, which rests rather upon a constitutional than a legal foundation.

Without these legal foundations, no country can make the transition from a war economy to a peace economy.

It provided the legal foundation for Jewish rights in Poland.

My second argument for rejection concerns the legal foundation.

A lawyer and expert in international law, Hallstein saw a strong legal foundation as essential.

Several legal and industry experts questioned the legal foundation of the lawsuit.

We need clear and sound legal foundations for the European Union of the future, so that this whole structure can be held together.

On the other hand, it cannot allow the social and legal foundations of the Community to be diluted or to disappear completely.

To date, the European Union has not yet created any special legal foundation concerning the rights of the child.

It needs a secure legal foundation in the debate with politicians, administrations, consumers and the public.

In January 2008, the process to transform the project into a legal foundation began, and the fan group was separated from the developing organization.