Sentence examples for weak justifications from inspiring English sources

Conversely, many students offer theoretical frameworks that come across as weak justifications for spending time in a place that interests the researchers.

"The CQC has blown Andrew Lansley's weak justifications out of the water by confirming that no women had poor outcomes of care at any of the clinics that he personally ordered raids on.

All they've got are weak justifications and non sequiturs.

Let's be clear: "Redsk*n" is a racial slur, no matter how many weak justifications defenders try and come up with to keep using it.

Unfortunately, such an alternate reality, while entertaining, is a weak justification for the deaths of more than 1,300 American soldiers.

7) Mind the gap Be aware that "nobody has studied this topic before" is a very weak justification for a project.

The mistake to allow him on Q&A required more than just an expression of regret, a "weak justification" from ABC managing director Mark Scott and silence from the board, the parliamentary secretary wrote.

Edmund Morris's contention that presidents must steel themselves against the emotions of their constituents lest they "be sucked dry within a week of taking office" is a weak justification for President Bush's inability to empathize with the victims of his policy.

Kris, who oversaw national security issues at Justice from 2000 until he left the department in 2003, also wrote that the Bush administration's contention that Congress had authorized the NSA program by approving the use of force against al-Qaeda was a "weak justification" unlikely to be supported by the courts.

But that, says Reid, is an exceedingly weak justification (EAP 1.4, 23).

This sort of consideration seems to show that knowledge, even when accompanied by a relatively weak justification, is better (at least when it comes to practical reasoning) than a true belief that is supported by a relatively strong justification but does not amount to knowledge.