Sentence examples for Spurious justification from inspiring English sources

The original impetus for the march came from council tenants in the London borough of Southwark, where the local authority plans to demolish thousands of decent homes using the familiar spurious justification of regeneration.

A twofold problem results: one, correctly nominated by Benn, is that it offers the disparate groups a common identity, and with it a spurious justification to which they can therefore help themselves.

Ministers of all political colours have grown into the habit of deeming such exercises necessary to provide spurious justification for redesigning the organisation instead of fixing the fundamental problem of resources.

Nevertheless, every generation or so, those who had once experienced racism, religious discrimination or general bigotry, find some spurious justification for vilification, switch roles and lash out at another community.

It was viewed as offering spurious justification for damaging accusations, which Israelis considered to be part of a campaign to delegitimize the state and label it as a war criminal.

Some might read this as another spurious justification; others will look at the Panama Papers and the MPs' expenses scandal and probably see where he's coming from.

That same aggressive clamour could be heard in the spurious justifications for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

A continuing healing process is not aided by the conjuring of spurious justifications for a genocidal program.

Fortunately, it appears from this week's argument that the appeals court panel saw through the administration's spurious justifications.

But it seems he's fresh out of spurious justifications, as the couple have announced their plans to separate after nine years of marriage.

The spurious justifications given for detaining the Central American families – and the conditions in which they are held – are a modern echo of the similarly unjustified mass incarceration of Japanese American families.