Sentence examples for convenient rationale from inspiring English sources

This provided a convenient rationale for the Milwaukee archbishop Rembert Weakland, who shifted the blame onto teenage victims in a 1988 article for The Catholic Herald.

Kim Jong Il's "rogue state" provided a convenient rationale for deploying the only kind of A.B.M. system that might be politically and diplomatically salable and technically even marginally feasible: a very limited one, based in Alaska and not overtly aimed at neutralizing China's deterrent.

For China, it provides a convenient rationale for buying or building new weapons systems to deny the United States complete control over air and sea.

The same convenient rationale that permitted President Bush to block the release of a 28-page classified section of the 2003 joint Congressional inquiry into the Sept 11 attacks.

As more credits were expunged, some in the industry began to question whether Hughes's hunt for subversives served primarily as a convenient rationale for further curtailing production and trimming expenses.

Excessive concern with avoiding false positive findings (Type I errors, or the incorrect rejection of the null hypothesis) can supply, as in other contexts, a credible and convenient rationale for doing nothing.

This provided a convenient economic rationale for opposing it: inefficient selection meant wasted talent.So, in 1965, while the Plowden committee was still sitting, local-education authorities were told to start preparing for the abolition of the 11-plus.

One of the unintended consequences of a customer bill of rights--or any complex new government regulations designed to achieve the same end--could be to provide a convenient, though inadvertent, rationale for making acceptable what was previously inexcusable.

She said the signing of the energy bill on Wednesday provided Mr. Johnson convenient timing and a rationale to reject the waiver.

His commitment to spreading freedom -- and even to his own religious principles -- seem in retrospect to have been convenient ex post facto rationales for his political strategems.

So it is convenient for them to find a rationale in good, hard economic science.