Sentence examples for as a convenient justification from inspiring English sources

One can only hope that they are using the attacks as a convenient justification for a decision that was already taken.

The casting of Caribs as not-really-indigenous served as a convenient justification for colonial aggression against them and their forced removal from their homelands.

This might be a convenient justification for not engaging in the transfer of skills, and thus avoiding the necessary mending of cross-cultural barriers as well as the shedding of the mutually shared misanthropic perceptions.

Sidestepping potentially painful subjects can sometimes be a convenient justification to avoid risking emotional upsets.

After all, in the end, by hook, crook, or secret "law," they will find a convenient justification for doing just what they want to do anyway.

Slavish devotion to market theories serves as a convenient rational justification for some to take selfish actions they know to be wrong or questionable.

While the rising temperature is dismissed by global warming naysayers as part of Earth's natural cycle, there is no convenient justification for the rate of deforestation that's occurring all across the globe.

It goes with the territory.' But that was convenient justification for what I was doing.

I recognized this version as a convenient twisting of logic.

Instead, he portrays the APA as complicit, self-servingly sacrificing Behnke as a convenient scapegoat.

DuPont could wind up as a convenient white knight.