The courts could only intervene if the authorities' decisions could be shown to lack "reasonable foundation", it declared.

Eventually, the court ruled that recovery of a repressed memory lacked sufficient scientific foundation to be admissible evidence.

While this theme has been repeated often in the press and elsewhere, it lacks foundation in fact.

However, the method is unsymmetrical and still lacks explicit theoretical foundation.

While the report lacked foundation, the Soviet acted on it, disarming the crew which tried to resist.

This account has since been discredited as lacking foundation in documentary evidence.

I wish that I could, but reason and science both show me that they lack foundation.

Weinstein's article is charmingly seductive, but lacking moral foundation.

We will continue to overhaul our system of justice, because without it our reforms will lack foundation.

He had not started since then, so may have lacked foundation.