Sentence examples for convincing justification for from inspiring English sources

The committee reserved particular criticism for the Cabinet Office Minister, Oliver Letwin, who, it said, failed to provide a "convincing justification" for ignoring the "comprehensive advice" of senior civil servants and hand over £3m to Kids Company just before it collapsed.

He wonders why Bush never proposed a more convincing justification for invading Iraq — based not just on a fear of Saddam Hussein's weapons (which could have been expressed in a non-alarmist fashion), nor just on the argument for human rights and humanitarianism, which Bush did raise, after a while.

When pressed during appeals, state lawyers failed to give a convincing justification for denying marriage to committed gay couples, many of whom were raising children.

A stronger and more convincing justification for the generic separation is provided by the present and by past studies based on molecules [ 30, 31], as well as by morphological studies of immature stages [ 34] of African mycalesines.

Some professor of a "discipline" called Sustainable Energy in Business defends the destruction of cooling towers thus: "You have to think: how much does this enhance the landscape compared to what else we could do if we weren't having to maintain the towers?" This is the very epitome of unreflective short-termism and a not-particularly-convincing justification for sanctioned vandalism.

Therefore, the results of such studies can be "incongruent with their stated methodological choices and the research product is a mixture of different methodologies without convincing justification".

Although it may prove politically necessary for a bipartisan deal, however, there is no convincing economic justification for using some of the revenues saved from tax reforms to lower marginal income tax rates for high-income taxpayers.

In RimWorld, this again offers a strong and entirely convincing narrative justification for how only a few people would wind up on a barren planet at the edge of known space, and a reason for them wanting to scrape out a living.

Whining doesn't really offer itself up as a convincing branding strategy; and the political justification for journalism, namely the vital constitutional role of the media in American democracy, sounds both sanctimonious and pretentious simply reminding people of the effluvial stench of journalism's sins instead of the grandeur of its triumphs.

Florida's judges were not afforded complete discretion, though; they had to give a jury's recommendation "great weight" and could exercise override only when the justification for a death sentence was "so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ".

The bill would have made domestic violence the 13th legal justification for divorce, as long as it was "established by clear and convincing evidence, where the perpetrator commits upon a spouse one of the following: attempting to cause, or purposely or knowingly causing, bodily injury to the spouse; or attempting by physical menace to put the spouse in fear of imminent serious bodily harm".