Sentence examples for Elaborate justification from inspiring English sources

Of all human activities, fighting for your country is the one that requires most elaborate justification.

Others think Mr. Greenspan is creating an elaborate justification for raising rates to mask a desire to bring down the stock market.

"Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity". Of course, that's both an expression of idealism and an elaborate justification for Facebook's business model.

It is a far cry from this practical 12th-century treatise by a man of affairs to the elaborate justification of Christian kingship and natural law created by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, during the climax of medieval Western civilization.

Still, it is possible that the position is more than an elaborate justification for short-sighted pleasure-seeking.

It was also, he said, "an elaborate justification of mass murder".

But no elaborate justifications are needed; it would be a must in any case.

As anyone who has spent time in Brazil can attest, Brazilian celebrations don't usually require elaborate justifications.

They fund lobby groups, thinktanks and economists to devise ever more elaborate justifications for their seizure of the nation's wealth.

States that deviated from the norm as, for instance, the former communist states of eastern Europe, the former military dictatorships of Latin America, and the autocratic regimes of Africa and Asia were frequently compelled to offer elaborate justifications of their conduct.

I knew Ms Markwell had to be part of this exciting venture when I read her recent feature on The Chadwick Oven, a £360 stove-top pizza oven which, by the time she'd applied her own particular elaborate justifications, had become a profoundly sensible investment, up there with, say, using your annual Isa allowance.