Sentence examples similar to contrived justification from inspiring English sources
The key figure in the early part of the story is Grotius, who, in contriving a legal justification for an obviously brigandly Dutch seizure of Portuguese goods off Singapore, eventually produced a volume, "On the Laws of War and Peace," published in 1625, that Hathaway and Shapiro say became "the textbook on the laws of war".
A legend recorded in Mongol chronicles to the effect that the dying Genghis designated the child Kublai as a future khan seems to have been contrived so as to provide retrospective justification of an act of usurpation.
As we know, the Nazis used contrived "racial" arguments as a philosophical cornerstone for justification of their persecutions of Jews, as well as most people of color and people with disabilities.
As the original works so well, there is no justification for digitizing it, and the result is doomed to feel unnecessarily contrived.
However, our (admittedly contrived) simulations and (not contrived) real data example have shown that those who prefer IPW/MI have some justification for their caution.
Seems totally contrived".
