Sentence examples for a plausible justification. from inspiring English sources

Without a plausible justification, such a double standard constitutes covert arbitrary discrimination against the global poor.

If it does not do so, we will have a plausible justification for war.

People don't generally engage in moral reasoning, Haidt argues, but moral rationalization: they begin with the conclusion, coughed up by an unconscious emotion, and then work backward to a plausible justification.

Your mind spins to find a plausible justification for this basketball interruption, but neither the grieving nor the young would understand that, in the end, an inanimate object had called you out.

When seen from a population-based perspective that counts the number of lives saved, paternalism becomes a plausible justification for interventions that do not pose a truly significant burden on individual liberty, but go a long way towards safeguarding the health and well-being of the populace.

It was from Dionysius, written in the terms of it to Dion, but in effect to the Syracusans, and so worded that, under a plausible justification of himself and entreaty to him, means were taken for rendering him suspected by the people.

In the Iowa heartland, for instance, FBI surveillance, trash searches, terrorism database paperwork, and "statistical accomplishments" regarding a few student protesters in Iowa City before the 2008 Republican National Convention fill hundreds of file pages without providing any plausible justification for the operation.

He proposes a neurologically plausible justification for Halliday's original insight of choice in conceptualizing language structure in terms of paradigm.

We, however, must blend this internal Daoist history with external information about these groups and their thought to get a plausible explanatory justification for the classic Zhuangzi position.

For, as we have construed it, the DRR allows that religious citizens may support coercive laws for religious reasons (so long as they have and are prepared to provide a plausible secular justification for these laws).

In fact we were able to detect and replicate two gene-breastfeeding interactions with a plausible biological justification.