Sentence examples for attempted to vindicate from inspiring English sources

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.

By contrast current versions of prescriptivism, most developed in the works of R. M. Hare, have attempted to vindicate moral thinking as a rational enterprise.

This approach to second order logic has been extensively criticized by various authors, most notably George Boolos, who in a series of papers, collected in part I of (Boolos 1998), attempted to vindicate second order logic, and to propose a plural interpretation, which is discussed in the article on plural quantification.

Mao's prestige weakened when it became widely known that Mao's Great Leap Forward had been a disaster, and He eventually presented a report that was positive, and which attempted to vindicate Peng.

Gibney has misplaced his efforts attempting to vindicate Spitzer.

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.

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.

The Communist Party's propaganda bureau accused the author of attempting "to vindicate criminal acts by the imperialist powers in invading China".