Sentence examples for invented reason from inspiring English sources

I was chased by a gang in Lagos and shaken down by corrupt police everywhere – they seized my passport and detained me for hours over an invented reason when I entered Ivory Coast from Ghana.

I just can't imagine that the world continues to have those bad apples -- and continues to be able to hate an entire group of people for some invented reason.

A vote to continue this practice would be hard to explain to constituents, so lawmakers simply invented reasons to oppose background checks.

In the White House, he invented reasons to come to the outskirts of the Oval Office in the mornings, where he was rarely welcome, and made sure his presence was noted by Kennedy's staff.

At Bank of America, employees have testified that they lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for invented reasons and were rewarded for pushing borrowers into foreclosure.

Soon I was inventing reasons to hang out with her.

You get jealous very easily, and invent reasons for arguments, to test people's love.

Instead, like the rest of Washington, it's inventing reasons to dither in the face of mass unemployment.

After years of silence from Jeannette, Midhat is still able to "invent reasons and ignore facts to preserve hope".

"After all the fulminating about a humanitarian catastrophe, they're inventing reasons not to act to avoid another catastrophe..

When I hugged him, and I would always invent reasons to do so, I would touch his shirt.