Their positions on these points were at least colorable from a legal perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

It is arguable that the opposite is more "colorable" given recent history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Legality is merely a "colorable" contract that those you have duped have, unknowingly, agreed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Government Official:] Reference

"colorable," a word he used frequently during his hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maryland Daily Record] Reference

For this black wrong there is no colorable pretext.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference

We just have to make it colorable, give it some weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [html]

Plaintiffs have pled a colorable First Amendment claim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal Judge Temporarily Restrains Release of Names of Anti-Domestic-Partnership Petition Signers in Washington States:] Reference

The OIC cannot make out even a colorable claim of perjury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preliminary Memorandom Referral Office Of Independent Counsel] Reference

It is a "colorable imitation thereof" ... text from the SV.    From Wordnik.com.  [JOSE ARNALDO RIVERA AKA RIVERWIND] Reference

Or, if you prefer “plausible” instead of “colorable”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Tort Liability:] Reference

Dilan Esper: It seems to me that is a VERY colorable argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law] Reference

The plain old dictionary defines colorable as "Seemingly true or genuine; plausible".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

How exactly is it ‘colorable’ for them to pick and choose which ones they enforce?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law] Reference

At least arguments relating to spelling or punctuation are colorable, though they lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Constitution in 2020?] Reference

It need not consider every other colorable objection to the statute that Maloney attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Nelson Lund on Sotomayor’s Second Amendment Decision:] Reference

The order uses “colorable” in a way that lawyers routinely use and understand that word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal Judge Temporarily Restrains Release of Names of Anti-Domestic-Partnership Petition Signers in Washington States:] Reference

The diner must also have a separate kids 'menu, preferably doubling as a colorable placemat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joel Schwartzberg: The Secret Truth About Diners] Reference

Because that would almost certainly lead to two persons having a colorable claim to the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate Dems Will Seat Burris] Reference

Extensive discussion of the merits without even a colorable claim of a continuing controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Did Judge Sotomayor Issue an Advisory Opinion?] Reference

Point well-taken and I mostly agree, the plaintiff does have to state a colorable claim under law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Tort Liability:] Reference

If he asks, I shall contrive to find some colorable pretext, probably that you were jealous of me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

Surely there's a colorable argument that there should be a commar between "lay readers" and "or who.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The new "blog magazine" trend.] Reference

The point with Padilla is this: IF what he alleges in his complaint is true, THEN he has a colorable case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Motion to Dismiss Denied in Padilla v. Yoo:] Reference

If Valukas points to "colorable claims," I'm apt to believe there's some colorful legal culpability to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nowhere To Hide: Ernst & Young Looking At More Civil and Criminal Liability For Lehman Failure] Reference

Not being conversant with Minnesota electoral law, I don't know if that is true or not but it is a colorable argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franken Camp Ratchets Up Pressure On Vote-Counters] Reference

Follow the money: Agents for these players have at minimum a colorable claim for lost wages and lost potential earnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Hollander: "Spygate" Victims Defense Fund] Reference

Congress has passed such laws, and several of them are of very colorable relevance to the apparent circumstances of these cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ABC’s Ross: Surveillance of Journalists ‘Makes Me Feel…As If We Are Drug Dealers or Terrorists’] Reference

But now you're starting to get into the area where the president at least has a-- as the lawyers would say, a colorable argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005] Reference

This issue is about simply representing bad clients and going into court and making perfectly colorable arguments on their behalf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy] Reference

Therefore, under Third Circuit law Applicants would have a colorable claim only if plaintiffs sought to remove books from the library.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luskin Once Again Gets The Law Wrong - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Bear in mind that anyone who has a colorable claim of bias under Caperton has surely already filed a motion for recusal under state law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Court Orders Recusal in Caperton v. Massey Coal:] Reference

"Our colorable package will generate imagination and creativity while allowing kids to personalize their own cereal boxes," says Natasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: March 10, 2002 - March 16, 2002 Archives] Reference

Could we please at least make an effort to find colorable arguments that health care is different from every other good and service in the world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and the Public Plan: Where’s The Beef?] Reference

They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?] Reference

Although I think she had a colorable argument in her brief, her complete failure to answer a critical question made it appear that she could not answer it in her favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral Argument — Common Mistakes:] Reference

But there are some who make some serious and colorable arguments for why conventional measures of “standard of living” are wildly inaccurate in one direction or another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:] Reference