Sentence examples for convenient justification from inspiring English sources

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

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

Even if it were feasible for one country to bear such a burden, such interference can ultimately be justified only in cases of self-defence, and for one state to intervene in another's affairs on any other grounds merely provides stronger states with a convenient justification to bully the weaker, and thereby becomes a recipe for international instability.

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.

The five-man majority rationalized their ruling as being necessary for safety, security and efficiency, the government's overused and all-too-convenient justifications for its steady erosion of our freedoms since 9/11.

Although the conservative Nationalist generals were already in the advanced stages of a planned uprising, the event provided a catalyst and convenient public justification for their coup.

Although the conservative Nationalist generals were already in advanced stages of a planned uprising, the event provided a catalyst and convenient public justification for their coup, and in particular that Spain would have to be saved from anarchy by military rather than democratic means.

It's the most convenient and romantic justification for what the title of Paul Rahe's new book rightly identifies as "soft despotism".

But using my grandma as both a convenient lie and a justification for doing what I wanted (read: not dealing with hippies, tents, or lukewarm gin) may just have been the perfect tribute to her.