Sentence examples for a weak justification from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, such an alternate reality, while entertaining, is a weak justification for the deaths of more than 1,300 American soldiers.

The mistake to allow him on Q&A required more than just an expression of regret, a "weak justification" from ABC managing director Mark Scott and silence from the board, the parliamentary secretary wrote.

Edmund Morris's contention that presidents must steel themselves against the emotions of their constituents lest they "be sucked dry within a week of taking office" is a weak justification for President Bush's inability to empathize with the victims of his policy.

Just a few months prior, the 2018 Emmy co-host had offered a weak justification of disgraced comedian Louis CK's return to the comedy scene; this time, his comments about Hart appeared to be grounded in the racial anxiety of seeing one of Hollywood's least controversial black comedians (until now) felled.

Moreover, notice that we can alter the example slightly so that the agent does possess knowledge while at the same time having a weaker justification for what she believes (where strength of justification is again assessed in terms of the likelihood, given this justification, that the agent's belief is true).

7) Mind the gap Be aware that "nobody has studied this topic before" is a very weak justification for a project.

This sort of consideration seems to show that knowledge, even when accompanied by a relatively weak justification, is better (at least when it comes to practical reasoning) than a true belief that is supported by a relatively strong justification but does not amount to knowledge.

But that, says Reid, is an exceedingly weak justification (EAP 1.4, 23).

It seemed to be yet another mass shooting with yet another weak justification; mental illness or a workplace grievance-discrete gasoline set aflame by the flint-click of too easily available guns.

"This would seem pretty weak justification for abrogating the VWP since their travel occurred years ago: Youssef's and Ajaj's in 1992; Moussaoui's and Reid's in 2001.

These appear to manifest themselves through weak justification of evaluation criteria, and lack of consistent use of these criteria within evaluations.