Sentence examples for no legitimate rationale from inspiring English sources
If we are going to use the power of the state to make sure that violent rioters in Baltimore don't have the run of the streets, then there is no legitimate rationale for allowing armed insurrectionists to take over our public lands and threaten government employees with death.
The proposed guidance to sperm banks has no legitimate scientific rationale and does little, if anything, to advance sound public health principles.
Richard A. Bilotti, head media analyst at Morgan Stanley, said: "There is no legitimate business rationale for a stand-alone broadcast network news group.
The court reaffirmed that finding in 2003, while also reaffirming that diversity was a legitimate rationale.
If the state lacks a legitimate rationale for imposing on Americans a heterosexual definition of marriage, it seems pretty likely that it likewise lacks a legitimate rationale for imposing on Americans a monogamous definition of marriage.
Thus did Blunt swat away the one legitimate rationale for forcing Petraeus from his job because of his affair.
"Many loyal Muslims," he writes, believe that the September 11th attacks "justified the American assault and have given it a legitimate rationale for reoccupying the Islamic world".
It also implies, through the seeking of clarification, that there might be some legitimate rationale for criminalising your own citizens because of their sexual or gender identity.
The free expression of contrary and dissenting opinion is not a legitimate rationale for internment, despite vague and clichéd state concerns for national security.
"Our concern is that the guidance has been deliberately drafted to put charities off speaking out even when they have a legitimate rationale for expressing their views on the referendum," he said.
From the Bush administration's perspective, Iraq's refusal to accept what Vice President Dick Cheney calls a "go anywhere, any time kind of inspection regime" provides a legitimate rationale for military action aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein.
