on the grounds that

idiom

: for the reason that : because

Many critics have objected to the proposal on the grounds that it would be too costly.

Examples of on the grounds that in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

During his first term, his Administration tried to require drugmakers to include their products’ sticker prices in TV ads, but a federal judge blocked it on the grounds that HHS was overstepping its authority. —Chad De Guzman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

The most significant case so far was the seizure, in June 2025, of Moscow’s huge Domodedovo airport on the grounds that its owners held foreign passports or dual citizenship. —Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025

Cooper denies conspiring with Peterson and tried to get the lawsuit dismissed on the grounds that she was shielded as a journalist. —Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025

Anthropic has also spoken against the Trump administration’s lifting of some restrictions on AI-chip exports to China, on the grounds that export controls are necessary to slow the development of Chinese AI models. —Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for on the grounds that

• aristocrat
• magnificat
• acrobat
• autocrat
• automat
• bundesrat
• bureaucrat
• butterfat
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• chemostat
• copycat
• cryostat