Sentence examples for At justification from inspiring English sources

There were attempts at justification in the aftermath.

The corruption is so blatant, so indefensible, that attempts at justification are necessarily surreal".

However, while "none of this is really new," in earlier times at least some attempt at justification would accompany such censorship.

There were flashpoints, rightly so, regarding this – but (this is no attempt at justification) we had instructions from the people paying the wages, whose club it was and who selected and chose the (unpublished, obviously) door policy.

Attempts at justification of terrorism that concede that its victims are innocent seem more promising.

As Quine (1956 [1976], §V) observed, in the actual practice of choosing axioms for set theory, we seem to be left "making deliberate choices and setting them forth unaccompanied by any attempt at justification other than in terms of their elegance and convenience," appeals to the meanings of terms be hanged (although see Boolos' 1971 defense of the "iterative conception of set").

"Or do you have a secret road underneath somewhere that we don't know about?" The four-hour meeting frequently got heated, with residents hurling questions at town officials, booing at justifications for the plan and cheering loudly when a council member voiced support for the residents' point of view.

He locks the knee of the composing stick at the justification; that is, at the length of the line to be composed.

And he is just as dismissive of the "they were all at it" justification.

And out of pique at his justification for what I call "spoiler reviewers," I shall read only reviews of Kirn's own books and not buy his books.

Text-based narratives are presumably aimed at providing justification for the classification of the crime itself.