Sentence examples for attempt to vindicate from inspiring English sources

In Friday's ruling, Judge Korman said that the government's appeal of his order was nothing more than an attempt to "vindicate the improper conduct of the secretary".

Later, when asked if his return was in part an attempt to vindicate his work in the Dinkins years, Mr. Kelly said that was pointless.

She also ups the ante in gutsy ways, strapping herself into a lie detector and accompanying the film-maker to Jordan in a confusing attempt to vindicate herself.

This sort of internalism is controversial, so that leading non-cognitivists have had both to defend judgment internalism and to argue that their favored theory should be accepted as the best explanation of the sort of internalism they attempt to vindicate.

Yet, the producers only dedicated one minute and thirty-two secofds of my thirty-minute interview to mine safety -- one of the most important issues in West Virginia -- to attempt to vindicate Don Blankenship.

Gibney has misplaced his efforts attempting to vindicate Spitzer.

In the memoir, which was published by ReganBooks in 2005, and which attempted to vindicate Lott's comments defending the onetime segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, Lott was sometimes hard on Yankees.

British authorities arrest Lindow -- who was peripherally involved in an I.R.A. incident almost two decades before -- for planting the bomb, and the novel chronicles his attempts to vindicate himself.

At the time of publication, John Wilkes was stoking up anti-Scottish feeling in the pages of the North Briton, and Horace Walpole claimed that Humphry Clinker was "the profligate hireling Smollett" attempting to "vindicate the Scots".

Gálvez's Moratín-style comedy Los figurones literarios (1804; "The Literary Nobodies") ridicules pedantry; her tragedy Florinda (1804) attempts to vindicate the woman blamed for Spain's loss to the Muslims; and her biblical drama Amnón (1804) recounts the biblical rape of Tamar by her brother Amnon.

Joyce (1998) attempts to vindicate probabilism by considering the accuracy of degrees of belief.