bear scrutiny
Example Sentences
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“My character is one that will bear scrutiny and has merited the esteem of my officers,” he wrote in a letter to Allan in 1828.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
Pakistan's Covid statistics also bear scrutiny - a country of 220 million people recorded just 1.5 million cases and 30,000 deaths, a staggeringly low number compared with the devastation in neighbouring India last year.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2022
This is so broad as to be meaningless, and in any case doesn’t bear scrutiny — the sons might be said to have created plenty of chaos on their own, after all.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018
Terry's assertion that England can "mix it with anyone football-wise" would not bear scrutiny in a court, where the prosecution would recite their 44 years in the wilderness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2010
No grounds that will bear scrutiny have ever been adduced for the reactionary explanation of the marvel: to wit, that the Neapolitan generals were bribed.
From The Liberation of Italy by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
