Sentence examples for questionable cause from inspiring English sources

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Others saw the price that was paid by the soldiers and their kinfolk, in body and mind, for the sake of a questionable cause, as uncomfortably high.

In the first scene of the Jeremy Corbyn story I picture him where he spent decades of relative obscurity before becoming Labour leader: in some forgotten meeting room, addressing the ragtag faithful of some questionable cause.

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A tragic ballad with a biting sense of futility ("Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die"), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" became the ambivalent banner cry of this and so many subsequent wars of questionable cause.

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Bishop Daily and law enforcement officials said they were looking into many possible theories, including reports from parishioners that Monsignor Gradilone was exceedingly generous to questionable causes, or that he might have been duped into transferring church money to friends or parishioners who took advantage of his charity.

When he was allowed back, secret service agents kept a close watch on him, once finding $200,000 in cash in his briefcase, intended, they presumed, for questionable causes.Fear of French meddling can be overdone: French-speakers in Manitoba or New Brunswick can no more disrupt the federation than fly to the moon.

Since the beginning of February, California's 14 oil refineries have suffered 10 serious slowdowns or shutdowns, many due to questionable causes or timing.

Some hit the nail on the head and recognised the wider issues at play, whereas some believe the reason the list is light on females is the result of slightly more questionable causes.

Some hit the nail on the head and recognized the wider issues at play, whereas some believe the reason the list is light on females is the result of slightly more questionable causes.

And yet, no matter how questionable the cause, people continue to invest in others, on both small and grand scales, perhaps because to invest in a cause -- no matter how small -- is to invest in humanity.

In my experience, police officers are already mainly concerned with what the end result of a search is, rather than how they go about performing it, and often dig up questionable probable cause, or try to badger people into consenting to searches.

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