Sentence examples for bogus justification from inspiring English sources

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The totally out-of-place Cumulus project, a 30 story skyscraper, near Jefferson and La Cienega is a perfect example why a build-out of our transportation system must not be used as a bogus justification to ruin the integrity of neighborhoods.

In the case of Iraq lies, the Bush Republicans reached the bottom of the bogus justification slag heap when Rick Santorum announced that he found the Iraqi WMD -- WMD that were chemically expired because they predated the first Gulf War -- but he found the WMD anyway.

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And on numerous occasions Pentagon auditors have caught officials writing bogus justifications for avoiding competition claiming, for instance, that only one firm can do the work when clearly others can; or saying the need is too urgent to wait for a competition, when it is demonstrably not.

The magazine described counter-terrorism as "a sullied sub-academic doctrine" and "a bogus intellectual justification for authoritarianism, military repression and neoconservative Islamophobia".

Most of the time they get away with it by fashioning bogus legal justifications that no one questions, because it's better to avoid getting stuck knee-deep in a quagmire of legalese.

Voter ID requirements at least have the superficial appearance of addressing the integrity of elections, although in practice the justification is bogus.

Nor is it a justification for the bogus notions about sovereignty, the militarisation of immigration and customs functions, politicians dressing up as airforce pilots, bunting and flags and all the other manifestations of fear mongering and political insecurity.

The uproar this provoked only grew when a state-appointed actuary concluded that the firm's justification for the hike was bogus.

Manhattan Through Feb. 23 Not entirely without justification, Surrealism is often derided as a bogus religion.

Unless the protesters are to be held responsible for wasps and the weather, aren't we to conclude that the justification used at that time was wholly bogus and vacuous?" Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, also apologised to MPs today, for last week's premature release of data on knife crime, which provoked fierce criticism from Sir Michael Scholar, chairman of the UK Statistics Agency.

Finally, to ensure that all participants ate some of the foods and to provide a stronger justification for offering food in the experiment, the foods were presented as part of a bogus taste test, using the same questions as those used in previous studies (Houben, 2011; Houben & Jansen, 2011).

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