The phrase "argued to justify" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a rationale or reasoning that someone has presented to support a particular claim or position.
Example: "The researcher argued to justify the need for further studies on the impact of climate change on biodiversity."
Alternatives: "claimed to support" or "contended to validate".
Lindqvist reflects on what Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, and later European racial biologists, would argue to justify the genocide of non-whites across the world.
It's what brings us a Rand Paul, a man who himself argues to justify discrimination yet paints President Obama as a second coming of Adolf Hitler.
For Rawls, therefore, inequalities in the crime drop experienced by different groups in society (or areas) might be argued to be justified if those individuals or areas experiencing the greatest level of crime enjoyed disproportionately larger decreases in levels of victimisation.
And the consequences of medical care can include, as other analyses have demonstrated (21, 52, 53), creating sick patients, overdiagnosis, adverse effects of treatment, stigma for patients and major costs, although the latter are argued to be justified by the costs-savings of treating long-term consequences of diseases (16).
It was very difficult, argued the chancellor, to justify taxing people on low incomes to pay for the child benefit of those earning so much more than them.That may have sounded perfectly reasonable to Mr Osborne and David Cameron, the prime minister, but critics immediately spotted what seemed a glaringly unfair anomaly: the treatment of "stay-at-home mums".
The BLM, he argues, has failed to justify its recent change in course.
We create lists to assign ranking and therefore credibility to these ephemeral "products", argue about business models to justify the time and attention paid as though we better hurry up before the teacher gets back and grades us.
Anyway, say Pocklington and Tupper, if that idea is valid, why do universities reward good researchers by lightening their "teaching load?" They also argue that professors, driven to justify themselves, often do research of no value to anyone.
Having argued against Kant's effort to justify the basics of Newtonian physics a priori, Reichenbach proceeds to argue that we can know almost a priori that Newtonian theory is false.
It argues that the government failed to justify the change in dividend payments.
