Sentence examples for flimsiest of justifications from inspiring English sources

The Fourteenth Amendment was specifically designed to protect the right to earn an honest living not just for newly freed slaves but for all Americans but today that right receives so little protection that courts will accept the flimsiest of justifications while turning a blind eye to even the most blatant examples of government-imposed economic protectionism.

We know that they raise premiums with no justification and cancel policies with the flimsiest of excuses.

(Stacked against this is the flimsy legal justification of a poorly worded clause in the 14th Amendment promising repayment of Union Civil War debts).

"This is the flimsiest of charges.

Mortgages have been written to the flimsiest of credits.

Aliens are imprisoned for months on the flimsiest of grounds.

"Tom Knox was the flimsiest of masks," says Thomas.

Since then, only the flimsiest of reconstruction plans have emerged.

Control over your hardware is the flimsiest of illusions.

"The findings appear to be based on the flimsiest of research evidence".Schools 'failing brightest pupils'.

But many others seem based on "the flimsiest of edifices".