not have a leg to stand on

The court decided the company did not have a leg to stand on.

They would be right, but they would not have a leg to stand on.

Harkness did not have a leg to stand on; even Gleason had agreed to that.

"Hardly that," Mason said, "but don't worry about that baby not having a leg to stand on.

So legally, as well as morally, the Japanese Whaling fleet do not have a leg to stand on!

During a debate about amputees: Frank Dobson "does not have a leg to stand on".

Anyone who exercised command in your place would be liable to court-martial-and would not have a leg to stand on, as it were, in court.

Precisely now, when the Union wants to make cooperation in the Lomé context more political, the parliamentary dimension must be strengthened, otherwise it does not have a leg to stand on politically.

"We didn't make an issue out of it because Henri did not have a leg to stand on because in the United States you can publish anything," Ms. Franck explained.

"This entire affair regrettably demonstrates that any of the official or semiofficial explanations given to the public regarding the Yukos affair do not have a leg to stand on," the economics adviser said.

In a withering attack this weekend, Lord Lawson, the former Tory chancellor, said that David Cameron's attempt to make his the greenest government ever "does not have a leg to stand on" and branded the Government's decarbonisation policy as "absurd".

In my the developed nations of the world does not have a leg to stand on to criticize China, much less India or Brazil, till such a time that their per-capita emissions are at an equitable level and not 2-3 times more as it is currently.

The private owner just does not have a leg to stand on if the property falls under the heading of necessary defensive structures as defined by the area commander, which is General Keeton," he noted, gesturing at the Corps Commander at the head of the table.

In the communication it notes 'disturbing inequalities in health status between social classes', but makes no suggestions at all for remedying that state of affairs. Understandably so, since the Commission does not have a leg to stand on - legally or politically - when it comes to preventing and combating social inequality in European health.