Sentence examples for rationalisation for from inspiring English sources

In some respects this is a rationalisation for inaction on human rights.

"There is no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers.

The first is simply a rationalisation for a government policy of deep welfare cuts.

This time my grandchildren provided rationalisation for a talk likely to draw ire from the administration.

Would the ethical argument appear anything more than rationalisation for their newly found unhappiness?

[beat] Now … [more laughter] No seriously, there's no rationalisation for what you do, you're Satan's little helpers, kill yourself.

Arguments about the flaws of the agreement are thinly disguised rationalisations for an anti-environmental sentiment, which I am beginning to believe you share with the Bush administration.

For a Machiavellian, Burnham wrote, politics was an unending war for dominance: democracy was a myth, and all ideologies were thinly veiled rationalisations for self-interest.

To head the office of legal counsel, which concocted specious rationalisations for presidential lawbreaking, Obama nominated Dawn Johnsen, a respected scholar of executive power.

Sitting in the middle of this process are the lobbyists and think tanks who invent public rationalisations for policy positions that serve their clients' interests.

An irritated Alexander Veshnyakov, Russia's ambassador to Latvia, called a special news conference to announce that "revision of history is a provocation, and Russia cannot tolerate this".While such historical sniping may seem esoteric, it is part of a propaganda struggle over Russia's rationalisations for intervening in Ukraine.