Sentence examples for defensible reason for from inspiring English sources

The Coalition have wound back Labor's changes and have provided not one defensible reason for doing so.

There is simply no defensible reason for the administration to object to independent, retrospective scrutiny to make sure that it is playing by its own rules.

There is no intellectually defensible reason for stopping flowing traffic with what amounts to arbitrary roadblocks scattered all over the state's otherwise functional highways.

The chancellor had a defensible reason for this a revision in June to the national growth figures suggested that, contrary to earlier belief, the economy in 1999 had not in fact marked a new cycle by dipping below its full capacity.

This delay is not only frustrating for researchers, but it limits scientific progress and there is no defensible reason for it.

Society is not any greedier than it used to be, said Mr. Gray, a former lawyer, and sellers may have perfectly defensible reasons for doing what they're doing.

This was to find some conclusions which the members of the committee, or as large a majority as possible, would sign, and not bother about finding defensible reasons for them.

Consider the most obvious counter-example: aggressor A attacks B for no defensible reason, posing a serious threat to B's life.

A partner's affair could no longer be treated by courts as a defensible reason to lose control and kill.

Maybe that would have been a defensible reason back in 1942 not to choose him to lead the Los Alamos project, though it would have been a mistake.

There's no morally defensible reason why anybody should be slinking around it after dark, particularly following several glugs of bottom-shelf akvavit.