Sentence examples for a primary justification. from inspiring English sources

Mr. Launius said spinoffs should not be viewed as a primary justification for the space program.

Chinese authorities have long cited flood control on the Yangtze as a primary justification for the project.

By the 19th century, many historians agree, the belief that African-Americans were descendants of Ham was a primary justification for slavery among Southern Christians.

Two weeks ago, Mr. Bush cited Iran as a primary justification in his announcement that he would halt further withdrawals of American troops in Iraq after the level reaches 140,000 this summer.

Indeed, parts of the memo support the much stronger case presented by Bush administration officials who have repeatedly cited the ties as a threat to the United States and as a primary justification for the American invasion of Iraq.

The dark irony of all of this is that Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, has repeatedly accused Qatar of funding terrorism, and his country and their cabal have used that argument as a primary justification for their illegal blockade on the state of Qatar.

We are now governed by a party whose primary justification is to secure Brexit, and which does no actual governing aside from talking about Brexit.

Jeffrie Murphy (2007: 11) adds a note of qualification, writing: "[A] retributivist is a person who believes that the primary justification for punishing a criminal is that the criminal deserves it".

Many distinguished scholars and practitioners assert that the answer is "a great deal". The primary justification for this conclusion is that most bureaucratic policy choices involve fundamentally political value trade-offs, and in a democracy there is a strong presumption that such choices should reflect the interests of electoral majorities.

This was the primary justification for a big tax cut.

A year after giving the go-ahead for the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Bush made only a fleeting reference to the primary justification he had used -- Mr. Hussein's supposed possession of chemical and biological weapons and his efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb.