Sentence examples for and seeks to justify from inspiring English sources

At another stage, the manifesto describes in chilling detail how others can emulate the author's planned terror attack, and seeks to justify the violence.

One of the militants in the video describes the artefacts as "false idols" and seeks to justify their destruction in religious terms.

Riku's replica, who has since learned of his altered memories and seeks to justify his existence, fights Riku only to be destroyed by him.

But on Thursday he blamed police officials and sought to justify his actions.

It was imperative, therefore, that the adherents of the new order should rise to the occasion and seek to justify the actions of the new ruler.

The commissioners do not see their investments as integral to the church's mission, but as additional – a dualism which suggests both bad theology and seeking to justify investment decisions by ends rather than means.

A prodigiously researched, intellectually distinguished life of the psychiatrist from Martinique who propagandized for Algerian independence in the 1950's and sought to justify violence not only as a tactic but also as therapy for the oppressed.

But when Mr. McCain's positions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the possibility of conflict with Iran, were questioned, he responded by attacking Mr. Obama and seeking to justify his support for the Iraq war, which Mr. Obama says was unnecessary and fought on false pretenses.

They inveigh against their tormentors and seek to justify their actions.

"It is hard to believe that any 'findings' of this commission headed by those individuals will do anything but condone and seek to justify voter suppression efforts," she said.

The motion from the leadership at our conference welcomes the declared aspirations of Andrew Lansley's healthcare reforms, and then seeks to justify them with dodgy statistics that depend more on eating and smoking habits 20 years ago than any previous structural reform.