Example sentences of "grounds that [pers pn] represent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | A motion for Noriega 's release on bail was denied on Jan. 26 on the grounds that he represented " an extraordinary danger to the community " and that he might use his " vast wealth overseas " to flee to a country from which the US could not recover him . |
| 3 | Keating 's lawyer gave immediate notice of his intention to appeal , but Keating was denied bail on the grounds that he represented a " significant flight risk " . |
| 4 | The Allies ( certainly the British ) would have been perfectly happy for de Gaulle to claim a generalized legitimacy on the grounds that he represented the true interests of France . |
| 5 | Moving beyond the confines of the literary , perry Anderson has similarly dismissed all poststructuralism on the grounds that it represents ‘ the randomisation of history ’ . |