Sentence examples for shifting reasons from inspiring English sources

Justice Thomas has given various and shifting reasons for declining to participate in oral arguments, the court's most public ceremony.

An angry left, still stinging over the 2000 election and now furious over the shifting reasons for war in Iraq, sees in Mr. Bush's less-than-articulate news conferences a less-than-sharp mind.

Habermas told me that in his letters, Flew tested shifting reasons for his newfound belief in God, sometimes saying he believed in intelligent design, other times saying only Aristotle's notion of a "prime mover" was persuasive.

We sent it in, and Schopf reacted strongly against it thus signaling the tenor of the reaction it has engendered, though for shifting reasons, down to the present day".

The judge criticized the attorney general's office for shifting the reasons to avoid a deposition late last week.

For unknown reasons, shifting global weather patterns have brought more precipitation to the fjord-dented coastline.

For a long list of reasons, shifting jobs from industries that harm the earth to ones that sustain it are an economic imperative.

Moving from private, particularistic reasons to truly public reasons may then often have an associated price, i.e., shifting from profound (private) reasons to shallow (public) reasons.

4. Moral Theory: This view shifts the reason for Jesus' death as the consequence of divine wrath to the human example of Jesus himself.

This alone could account for the deeper appeal of the series — the suggestion that during this transitional era, the equilibrium of both state and psyche will keep shifting between cool reason and dark romance.

But no matter what the reason, shifting focus has led these men and women to finding value and substance away from the playing field.