Sentence examples for justification offered for from inspiring English sources

Faith wasn't the only justification offered for the bill.

Fear is the justification offered for this policy by former CIA director George Tenet as he promotes his new book.

The only other justification offered for the rule is to prevent contraband from being smuggled into the prisons.

In the strangest justification offered for the wardrobe ban, Lionnel Luca, mayor of Villeneuve-Loubet, said it is unhygienic to swim fully clothed.

But diversity is not the only justification offered for affirmative action, either in the United States or in other parts of the world.

In the end, The Sun seemed hesitant, almost apologetic — a far cry from the rambunctious Sun of old — in the lengthy, front-page justification offered for defying the palace.

The justifications offered for such censorship are feeble.

Scholars question whether the justifications offered for the law are real or a pretext for suppressing troubling speech.

One has only to think of collateral damage in military strikes, or of the justifications offered for torturing terrorism suspects.

As support for this proposition one can cite the defensive justifications offered for major American wars, from the attack on Fort Sumter to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Among the justifications offered for this type of deduction, the most widely accepted is that it contributes to fiscal coordination in a federal system and avoids extremely high rates in the case of overlapping income taxes.