The phrase "a vindication of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a justification or defense of a particular idea, action, or individual.
Example: "The article serves as a vindication of a controversial decision made by the board."
Alternatives: "a justification of a" or "a defense of a".
A UBS deal would also be a vindication of a multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild the World Trade Center complex.
The award was a vindication of a man and an agency long at odds with President Bush and his administration over how to confront Iraq and Iran.
Today's Nobel peace prize for Santos is a vindication of a decades-long struggle from which I hope two things will happen.
David Cameron's statement blaming Pakistan has been seen as a vindication of a long-held Indian accusation that any unrest in Kashmir is a consequence of cross-border terrorism.
Sibelius's 7th Symphony is more conventionally thought of as a vindication of a new kind of symphonic form (it plays for 22 minutes or so in a continuous single movement) and a reclamation of the affirmatory power of tonal possibility.
It has long been the case, for example, that the G.D.P. of the United States outpaces that of European countries with higher taxes and greater government spending; it has thus seemed reasonable to view our economic growth as a vindication of a national emphasis on free markets and entrepreneurship.
"It might be really bad sexual etiquette but whatever else it is, it is not rape," he said, receiving a copy of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as a prize.
Joseph Smith was born a dozen years after the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a book I'm sure he never read.
*Correction, May 19 , 2008 The title of Mary Wollstonecraft's book is "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," not "A Vindication of the Rights of Women," as originally stated.
