Sentence examples for justifications that from inspiring English sources

FOR all the high-minded justifications that led to Europe's military intervention in Libya, there has been little political willingness to shoulder the humanitarian consequences of the war.

The problem with this conclusion is that socially conservative elites do publicly advance exactly the justifications that Sanchez suggests they're unwilling to acknowledge or lay bare.

The key observation here, I think, is that by and large the people now demanding higher interest rates have been against easy money all along — it's just their alleged justifications that keep changing.

Social transformations can ameliorate the crises of poverty and racism, lessening the need for self-medication on the part of the poor and removing the justifications that have led to a crisis of mass, racialized incarceration.

Pressed via e-mail by Hubbard and others, he denied that he had cheated or had intended to deceive — and offered justifications that left one in awe of his gift for just making shit up.

It also stated that arguments centring on "necessity and self-defence could provide justifications that would eliminate any criminal liability" should any US interrogator face prosecution for torturing detainees.

"It came without preliminaries or any prior signals," wrote the pro-government daily newspaper An Nahar, "and has been wrapped in an envelope of justifications that were not to the liking even of pro-government circles".

Pressed via e-mail by Hubbard and others, he denied that he had cheated or had intended to deceive and offered justifications that left one in awe of his gift for just making shit up.

No love today?" — were reminiscent of some of the tortured self-justifications that Steve Carell's oaf of a boss might deploy in a similar bind.

It was so ill-considered, so lacking, so cringe-making in its near-justifications, that the following morning it had to apologise for its apology.

But such was the embedded power of Christendom, so well-rehearsed were its self-justifications, that even this revolution stalled, requiring constant and continual renewal.