Sentence examples similar to straw man justification from inspiring English sources

Today, however, it remains a straw-man justification for whatever the NSA wants to do, a way of scaring you into accepting anything from the desecration of the Fourth Amendment to taking off our shoes at airport security.

The interventionists will claim, with some justification, that Obama was setting up a straw man.

— — *I know — straw man.

In walks the straw man".

This was no straw man.

This is a straw man.

But that argument is a straw man.

The straw man is often a woman.

"They have created a straw man.

THE REAL STRAW MAN We know the technique; but what's the source of straw man?

I think that's a straw man, or maybe a straw hyena.