Sentence examples for shifting rationales from inspiring English sources

These shifting rationales had one thing in common: none of them were credible.

For my generation, abuse of power meant sexual indiscretions in the Oval Office -- not shifting rationales for war.

We can understand the shifting rationales behind Islamist violence without excusing it, a professor of religion maintains.

As a "war of choice," he writes, it has "eerie parallels" to our adventure in Iraq: shifting rationales, waterboarding, and a sense that Roosevelt, like the younger Bush, was making up for unfinished business of his father's.

"The way I look at it, it's my job," he said, recounting and dismissing the shifting rationales for the war, from the weapons of mass destruction that did not exist to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein to the establishment of democracy in the Arab world.

A shifting rationale for war against Iraq does not reflect a coherent global strategy.

Buffeted between calls to destroy Isis and criticism of their shifting rationale, Obama and the Pentagon have strenuously objected to a charge of mission creep.

"What we saw today was an administration with shifting rationale for a questionable war," Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said through his spokesman, Jim Manley.

Paul Krugman's point about the shifting rationale for a war against Iraq ("Stocks and Bombs," column, Sept. 13) is a reminder of one of the key principles of maneuver warfare theory.

This is not to cast aspersion on any community but let's be honest about the shifting rationale as to what is fair in terms of criticism of President Obama and fair relative to African-American expectations.

The Bush administration quickly shifted rationales, and our reason for invading became "regime change" and then "providing Iraq with a democratic government".