Sentence examples for tenuous justification from inspiring English sources

I don't want to sound mean, but isn't he just another rich bloke using the Bible as a tenuous justification for his lifestyle?

Although he has since owned some quality mutts, there is, I sense, a lot of ground to make up, though this suspicion may be a tenuous justification for my choice of gift.

Its fervent supporters have wheeled out increasingly tenuous justifications for its construction, but the zombie train refuses to die.

In one of the most tenuous justifications in the history of planning applications, the designers claim the pattern "references the stone tracery of an adjacent church".

Still, what good is a tenuous intellectual justification without quoting a line or two of poetry?

The cold war space race is a distant memory, and cooperation with our former rival has provided a tenuous diplomatic justification for the International Space Station.

The Senate's report on prewar intelligence about Iraq, which asserts that warnings about its illicit weapons were largely unfounded and that its ties to Al Qaeda were tenuous, also undermines another justification for the war: that Saddam Hussein's military posed a threat to regional stability and American interests.

That may have been the justification, however tenuous, for another ill-considered boondoggle: a grant and loan guarantee program to promote the installation of "ethanol blender," or "flexible fuel," pumps at gas stations.

The heyday of Ottoman court painting ended with him, and its justification was always tenuous, as Black describes it: Pictures are forbidden by our faith.

The tenuous nature of this contextualized justification becomes clear when we take a broader view of the factors determining an individual's access to health care.

In both of these cases, America's justification for blocking foreign ownership was fairly tenuous.