Sentence examples for terrible justification from inspiring English sources

This motivation for arbitrary change in the name of surprise is a terrible justification for messing with the foundation of someone else's story.

There obviously are humanitarian issues of concern to all, but they usually offer a terrible justification for intervention and war.

"Some have already suggested that the circumstances of this terrible tragedy are justification for delaying or stopping entirely the effort for comprehensive immigration reform," the joint statement read.

In the wake of this week's terrorist attack in Boston, some have already suggested that the circumstances of this terrible tragedy are justification for delaying or stopping entirely the effort for comprehensive immigration reform.

They were known, with justification, for terrible tempers.

Sometimes it is used as a justification for terrible things in other countries... it is destabilizing everything.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the attack as "terrible", adding: "There is no justification for the killing of innocent civilians".

"Their PR is so terrible that the point that may have some justification is lost," Marashi tells me.

There's also, for readers troubled by Wodehouse's terrible wartime gaffes, a line of oblique self-justification.

The movie just lives inside that stunned, astonished 90 minutes of horror between one epoch and the next - and there is, to my mind, an overwhelming dramatic justification for simply attempting to face, directly, the terrible moment itself.

"Hate will increase, not lessen; and the terrible consequences of that hate will be used, in turn, as justification for more restrictions on civil liberties in the United States".