Sentence examples for thin justification from inspiring English sources

The thin justification was to "encourage a culture of long-term share ownership".

It provides an even thinner justification to go to war.

I often enjoy its subversive streak and its bizarre humor, and though I've grown tired of many of its contrivances, I've gotten used to frequently putting up with thin motivations and thinner justifications.

Progressives and advocacy groups were naturally outraged by these proposals, but what was equally striking is how thin the justification for the budget's priorities is.

David Cameron does not even have "wafer-thin" legal justification to support the UK taking part in air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Syria, according to an expert in  international law.

Mr. Obama ordered the C.I.A. to abide by the military's stricter rules for interrogation and shut the secret detention facilities where terrorism suspects "disappeared" and were tortured, but he has refused to investigate — let alone prosecute — the senior officials who ordered torture or the government lawyers who provided thin legal justifications for it.

The court tore through the thin tissue of justifications dreamed up for DOMA.

Supporters of voter-I.D. laws and right-to-work laws have some justifications for their positions, but in both cases the evidence supporting those justifications is thin.

To begin with, the bans' justifications are thin.

22 A reading of the broader literature suggests that the basis for these justifications is thin.

For Ryback, the essence of Hitler is "a dime-store theory cobbled together from cheap, tendentious paperbacks and esoteric hardcovers, which provided the justification for a thin, calculating, bullying mendacity".