Sentence examples for scant justification from inspiring English sources

Juveniles continue to be picked up by the American military, Afghans say, often with scant justification.

Admittedly he won easily, beating a horse that has won twice since then, but that form by itself would be scant justification for such short odds.

(It is revealed that Mme. Saint Laurent, though long resident in Paris, is originally from Quebec. The opera is written in French, which the Met, with scant justification, cited as reason for cancelling the commission).

Yet if the history of art is any indicator, art history is an organic construct that changes often with scant justification for the choices of who is included and who is left out.

As conservatives see it, liberal judges have repeatedly subverted the rule of law in recent decades by overruling elected lawmakers with scant constitutional justification.

Advocates of this "originalist" view of the American constitution claim that the Supreme Court's current pro-secular stance has scant historical justification.

But critics say that is exactly what Egypt is doing - with scant legal justification.

The literature, however, has offered scant explanation or justification for the underlying theoretical claim that efficiency identifies the content of these legal norms.

In the world of credit, there was scant truth in the collateralized debt world, and even less moral justification for lending more than a property was worth to a borrower who could never repay.

"There is no economic or political justification for allowing foreign companies to access efficient U.S. capital markets with only scant and occasional disclosure about their businesses," said Mr. Taxin.

It was true that his claim had an element of rhetoric, since the dilapidated house, inherited by his wife Pamela, was Georgian and had a swimming pool; but the implied criticism of the producers' priorities and his scant rewards as part of the human furniture of the Bond phenomenon was not without justification.