soundness

How To Use soundness In A Sentence

• An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
• The identification instruments did not possess enough psychometric soundness to overcome the hazards that may have flowed from their use.
• Warren Buffett likes to say that his real interest is in the long-term soundness of a stock, not in its daily market fluctuations. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• This example confirms what we know about argument: logical/formal soundness is important, but the biases that audiences bring to the table are equally important — because the success of an argument ultimately depends on whether or not it actually persuades. Evidence? Bah. « Motivated Grammar
• The Labrador is bred primarily as a working gun dog; structure and soundness are of great importance.
• For example, if after the solemnization of the marriage it is found that the groom could not have given his valid consent because of the unsoundness of his mind, the woman can get the marriage nullified through the court.
• By longeing your horse, you are given the ability to watch him from the ground, so you can monitor his movement, his soundness and his natural frame.
• They could not rationally demonstrate the soundness of their own ideas or the unsoundness of their adversaries' ideas.
• This proposed rule will help address a key safety and soundness issue which contributed to the recent financial crisis — that poorly designed compensation structures can misalign incentives and induce excessive risk-taking within financial organizations," FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said before the vote. Big Banks Confront New Bonus Onus
• If the market value of GSE debt were to fall sharply because of ambiguity about the financial soundness of GSE's and about the willingness of the federal government to backstop the debt, what would happen?