Sentence examples for flimsy reason from inspiring English sources

And when you consider the mistakes made when the accused don't cop a plea – those mistakes caught in time and those proven too late – it seems a very flimsy reason to give governments such an awesome and irrevocable responsibility.

Which would be a flimsy reason at the best of times, but a very odd one to give in 1945, when India was still part of the British empire and independence was widely thought to be a very long way off.

That doesn't mean it can be a flimsy reason, Lessig said.

Cases are postponed for flimsy reasons, wasting everyone's time.

The Mayor's alternative preference, for expansion at Stansted, had been dismissed for "flimsy reasons".

In September, Tony Ball, BSkyB's talented chief executive, stepped down for suspiciously flimsy reasons.

The campaign had dismissed a Muslim staff member for seemingly flimsy reasons.

Great city-destroying quarrels begin with what turn out, to be, in retrospect, absurdly flimsy reasons.

They had already repeatedly asked to be excused for what Mr. Bassoff said were flimsy reasons.

Some of these people are in there for what I'll call flimsy reasons".

Skilful, intriguing, though not wholly convincing: characters take extreme actions for some fairly flimsy reasons.