Sentence examples for old justifications from inspiring English sources

Musk is right that many of the old justifications for dealers no longer apply.

"The Passion," in its confused way, confirms the old justifications for persecuting the Jews, and one somehow doubts that Gibson will make a sequel in which he reminds the audience that in later centuries the Church itself used torture and execution to punish not only Jews but heretics, non-believers, and dissidents.

The emperor's handlers, almost dumbstruck by their good fortune, wasted no time taking advantage of the situation, touring the nation almost triumphantly and encouraging the repetition of their old justifications for the Pacific war, which held that Washington had forced Tokyo to attack.

Is this new act of violence unthinkable enough to move us from our same old arguments and same old justifications about guns?

Private capital flows to Africa outstrip aid flows, contradicting an old justification that aid is necessary because investors hold back.For the poorest, the new donors are more important because Western aid is shrivelling.

The old justification of "content that violates China's constitution" is unsatisfying, because the show's fans have more immediate reasons to like it — personal, compelling reasons — and they are less willing than earlier generations to be quieted by a general suggestion of impropriety.

The old justification was, "I want to make money and be famous" and you can get trapped in those old narratives.

The concept gives way too easily to an infuriating way of shooting down any argument: simply find someone of the same identity who disagrees (a crude example is the old justification for doing something racist: "I have a non-white friend who says this is OK").

Preservation of the water supply, as well as of the cultural significance of these old structures, provides a justification for a deeper understanding of how they function to produce water.

And the old wound of lacking justification has continued to bleed -– that's what I am interested in.

One day, I brought up Roberts's old habit of inventing mechanical justifications for female participation in sex.