Sentence examples for dubious justifications from inspiring English sources

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.

"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?

"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.

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.

Economics is a dubious justification for any war unless national survival is at stake.

The dubious justification for this counterintuitive appointment was that the EPA was over-regulating the fossil fuel industry.

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.

Henry V is a deeply equivocal work, managing to be both a blast of a patriotism and a clear-eyed sceptical look at the dubious legal justification for the invasion of the France and at the horrors of warfare.