Sentence examples for concoct justifications from inspiring English sources

All of human history demonstrated the propensity of the executive to inflate danger or otherwise concoct justifications for war to aggrandize power or to settle personal vendettas.

When they were done, Sather testified, the deputies gathered privately to concoct a justification for the beating that they gave sheriff's officials in falsified reports.

Then someone made a joke about the military outpost and what we might say if we were stopped — the truth would raise too many suspicions — and I realized that I was only concocting a justification for failing to reach a place of real importance.

Then someone made a joke about the military outpost and what we might say if we were stopped the truth would raise too many suspicions and I realized that I was only concocting a justification for failing to reach a place of real importance.

Yet, not only did Bush continue sounding the alarms over Saddam's WMD, but he and his blood-thirsty neocons--VP Dick Cheney, then-National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--halreadyady secretly drawn up the war plans and were angling to concoct the saleable justification.

We will call on our band of hired apologists: "experts," "commentators" and "analysts" to concoct a set of justifications and excuses for his nauseating conduct, from mythical economic development and reform to political shrewdness, and if all else fails, reach for the Kessinger-Albright dictionary and throw in some "political realism".

Financial advisers are already concocting new strategies and justifications for charitable trusts and foundations should the estate tax be repealed.

Not only that, when pressed to justify their choices, the duped victims concocted remarkably detailed post hoc justifications.

The fact that various justifications have been made up or concocted after the fact doesn't cut it with me.

Let them concoct a mansard".

University administrators offer two justifications.