Sentence examples for justifications for taking from inspiring English sources

"For our anniversary," she says coolly, although this rationale rings hollow, reminds Andy of his own bullshit justifications for taking out a lease on a desert "bungalow".

Japan has often cited the need to collect DNA samples as justification for taking whole whales.

"Disappointment in a result is not justification for taking shots like that," he said.

Yet even critics of the government concede that the authorities have a historical justification for taking the terrorist threat seriously.

Nobody knows what crime Ms Goodling might have pinned on herself and some aren't convinced that she has any legal justification for taking the fifth.

After Bakke, to the extent that Justice Powell spoke for the court, diversity became the sole permissible justification for taking race into account in admissions.

Independent on Sunday Editorial, August 17 "The inquiry that began as a sideshow is casting a spotlight on Mr Blair's central justification for taking this country to war.

Mr. Tims said there was no justification for taking it out on the children, but he added: "Who's going to indict Amtrak?

To paraphrase John Le Carre's George Smiley: If you make your enemy look too foolish, you lose the justification for taking him on.

Rather than looking on them as a useful but limited tool, banks and other institutions used them as a substitute for proper risk management, and as a justification for taking on more leverage and more risk.

It is wrong to expose children gratuitously to violent, let alone sexual, images, and having seen the Mapplethorpe show in Eastbourne, I cannot see any justification for taking a child to that.