Sentence examples for dubious justification from inspiring English sources

"Retail therapy" — typically used as a dubious justification for blowing your salary on snakeskin boots — is a principle vital to this couple's equilibrium.

He decries past speculation about Barry Goldwater's psychopathology, but then gives his own analysis (from across the Atlantic) of Muammar el-Qaddafi's "malignant narcissism," offering the dubious justification of "national interest".

The causes for this split in national unity are many, but certainly include the tens of thousands of lives that are at risk from a war that began with dubious justification and reckless planning.

The deciding factor for me was not the monstrosity of the regime (routing tyrants is a noble cause, but where do you stop?), nor the opportunity to detoxify the Middle East (another noble cause, but dubious justification for a war when hardly anyone else in the world supports you).

What shocked me was not that the cops offered this dubious justification, but that the Los Angeles County prosecutors had put them on the stand -- on national television, no less -- to testify to it, and that the judge accepted the officers' statements as admissible.

It continues to provide dubious justification for various missile defense boondoggles, and in historian Emily Rosenberg's words, "became the most commonly evoked metaphor" to explain the horrors of September 11.

Romano Prodi, the head of the European Commission, explains that it would be simply too expensive.The EU has come up with some dubious justifications for its plans.

Rawles offered a series of dubious justifications for imposing a higher evidentiary burden on students.

"Hell" is a "false known," yes, and it coerces people into dubious justifications for their bigotry.

Will shame and fear crystalize in his psyche before he can comprehend the nuance of my dubious justifications?

Though Obama restarted the war unilaterally, with dubious legal justification, he called upon Congress to authorize the war retroactively, now that the midterm elections are over.