colorable

Example Sentences

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“And I think Florida State knows that as well. I think they threw in anything they could potentially think of as a colorable argument to get them out of the grant-of-rights agreement.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2023

"And then the only question is: Is it colorable?"

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2023

“Here there is simply no colorable claim of ownership over the broad ideas, public data, and common techniques expressed in the decree,” Melloy wrote.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2023

Experts agree that there are colorable grounds under which some claims of either executive privilege or 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination might apply.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2021

The cession by the Iroquois of these same hunting-grounds, at the treaty of Fort Stanwix, while it gave the whites a colorable title, merely angered the northwestern Indians.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore