Sentence examples for intellectual justification for from inspiring English sources

Applicants should provide an intellectual justification for the project and a work plan.

For a generation now, Murray has provided intellectual justification for an assault on defenders of public welfare benefits.

The charge is not that they manipulated Rumsfeld but that they provided the intellectual justification for the war.

The intellectual justification for Corbyn's desire to cover the countryside with homes goes back to the 15th-century enclosures.

The magazine described counter-terrorism as "a sullied sub-academic doctrine" and "a bogus intellectual justification for authoritarianism, military repression and neoconservative Islamophobia".

Adizes has an intellectual justification for the project: the nature of intimacy, he argued, is shifting, and "The And" is a way to track that shift.

It's hard to escape the suspicion that these new intellectual justifications for soaring executive pay were as much effect as cause.

Although French Calvinists had long offered intellectual justifications for resistance to persecution, the term monarchomach is generally reserved for those who wrote after the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris, in which thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered, an event that made clear that thenceforth religious persecution in France had royal support.

Positive-thinking movements and The Secret and nihilism and the faux anarchy of punk and youth and an addictive reliance on intellectual justifications for gnarly desires and behaviors are all pretty obviously nonsolutions.

He steeps himself in German thinkers whose genocidal texts provided sham-intellectual justification for murdering 6 million Jews.

When Beckett turns to Schopenhauer (again, a traditional path), in 1930, it is for the philosopher's "intellectual justification of unhappiness — the greatest that has ever been attempted".