Sentence examples for a convincing justification from inspiring English sources

The committee reserved particular criticism for the Cabinet Office Minister, Oliver Letwin, who, it said, failed to provide a "convincing justification" for ignoring the "comprehensive advice" of senior civil servants and hand over £3m to Kids Company just before it collapsed.

Strawson elsewhere rejects such an interpretation as "revisionary metaphysics" while metaphysics based on material things or substances is "descriptive," but these adjectives are themselves in need of a convincing justification — as long as an ontological category fully captures the inferential content of a common sense concept, it is as descriptive as any other.

When pressed during appeals, state lawyers failed to give a convincing justification for denying marriage to committed gay couples, many of whom were raising children.

He wonders why Bush never proposed a more convincing justification for invading Iraq — based not just on a fear of Saddam Hussein's weapons (which could have been expressed in a non-alarmist fashion), nor just on the argument for human rights and humanitarianism, which Bush did raise, after a while.

A stronger and more convincing justification for the generic separation is provided by the present and by past studies based on molecules [ 30, 31], as well as by morphological studies of immature stages [ 34] of African mycalesines.

Therefore, the results of such studies can be "incongruent with their stated methodological choices and the research product is a mixture of different methodologies without convincing justification".

Some professor of a "discipline" called Sustainable Energy in Business defends the destruction of cooling towers thus: "You have to think: how much does this enhance the landscape compared to what else we could do if we weren't having to maintain the towers?" This is the very epitome of unreflective short-termism and a not-particularly-convincing justification for sanctioned vandalism.

Whining doesn't really offer itself up as a convincing branding strategy; and the political justification for journalism, namely the vital constitutional role of the media in American democracy, sounds both sanctimonious and pretentious simply reminding people of the effluvial stench of journalism's sins instead of the grandeur of its triumphs.

The first one requires an assessment of the conflicts that require and allow for toleration, given the history and character of the groups involved; and the second requires an adequate and convincing normative justification of toleration in a given social context.

In RimWorld, this again offers a strong and entirely convincing narrative justification for how only a few people would wind up on a barren planet at the edge of known space, and a reason for them wanting to scrape out a living.

This display of unparliamentary manners had some justification: two years earlier Mr Menem had denied him a convincing mandate when he withdrew from a run-off election.