<adj.all> fallacious reasoning an unsound argument
suffering from severe mental illness
<adj.all> of unsound mind
physically unsound or diseased
<adj.all> has a bad back a bad heart bad teeth an unsound limb unsound teeth
of e.g. advice
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Unsound \Un*sound"\, a. Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. ※ -- {Un*sound"ly}, adv. -- {Un*sound"ness}, n.
Moreover, the Bank Holding Company Act was not adopted out of any concern about unsound banking practices.
For decades, ostentation was frowned upon as ideologically unsound.
The April 21 document was written one week after regulators seized control of the $5.2 billion thrift under a conservatorship, claiming that Keating was operating it in an unsafe and unsound manner.
Asserting that independent auditors generally have a "questionable record" in auditing thrifts, Mr. St Germain asked Congress's General Accounting Office to investigate whether the auditors are failing to warn against unsound banking practices.
They argue that such a waiting period would be medically unsound or even inhumane as it would allow the patient's medical condition to deteriorate and reduce the patient's chances of survival.
Skinner said he doesn't think he needs additional powers to prevent a financially unsound takeover.
Gaubert had been involved in questionable transactions at an Iowa savings and loan as well as regulatory violations and unsafe or unsound practices at Independent American.
"It's unsound government policy, and it hides unsound airline management policy," said Raymond Vecci, president of Alaska Air Group Inc.
"It's unsound government policy, and it hides unsound airline management policy," said Raymond Vecci, president of Alaska Air Group Inc.
Now the house is a gaunt shell: its roof has been stripped, its fireplaces have gone, floors have been ripped up, and certain parts of the building are now deemed structurally unsound.
The prospect of criticism could help keep national governments from proposing unsound policies or making spurious claims about the economic effects of their spending plans.
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said Friday that the 29-branch Lincoln Savings and Loan Association in Irvine had dissipated its $5.4 billion in assets, had let its capital dwindle to $20 million and was operating in an unsafe and unsound manner.
But the mining industry is so economically unsound because of inefficiency, decades of artificially low, government-set prices for coal and other factors that high levels of support from the national treasury continue to be required.
They have had to make two large capital injections to cover provisions for unsound sovereign debts.
The thrift office said the thrift was operating in an unsafe and unsound condition, failed all three capital requirements under the S&L cleanup law, and relied heavily on expensive brokered funds for its investments.
Germans view deficits as profligacy and consider any policy that worsens them to be unsound.
A retired top central banker from one of the world's major financial centers said he "regretted" having allowed the bank in and feared it was financially unsound.
The saga began when federal regulators, citing unsound fiscal practices, closed the credit union, which was organized to help north Omaha's poor.
Trade association lobbyists have opposed Metzenbaum's bill, citing the arguments raised by both Ms. Seger and Cincotta as well as a claim that community activists would use the ratings to exert pressure for granting unsound loans.
Some critics fear public pension funds could fall victim to political patronage, shunting money into unsound projects.
The stock transaction is one of four deals that regulators have cited as examples of "unsafe and unsound" practices that justified their takeover of the Irvine, Calif., thrift last April.
A key point alleged by the FDIC is that Mr. Bush and the other outside directors failed to "correct unsafe and unsound practices at Silverado after receiving numerous criticisms of such practices" from regulators.
The government said the bank was hurt both by the declining real estate market and "unsafe and unsound lending practices." As of Sept. 30, ComFed's delinquent loans totaled $219 million, or 15.6 percent of total assets.
Newport News Savings Bank was ordered by Virginia regulators to stop engaging in conflicts of interest and unsound loan practices that, in some cases, violated federal regulations.
Mr Robin Ellison, partner at pensions solicitors Ellison Westhorp, says the idea is unsound.
One or other side of its equation - the rebuilding of the public-sector infrastructure or the means of financing it - must be unsound. There is no need for a Tory tax bribe to reinforce that argument.
That would be "unsound, unworkable and unnecessary," Ms. Fryklund argues.