Sentence examples for attempts to vindicate from inspiring English sources

The secretary of the Army continues to be a former Enron executive whose attempts to vindicate his behavior as a businessman have been more embarrassing than convincing.

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.

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.

Gibney has misplaced his efforts attempting to vindicate Spitzer.

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.

American and Canadian trade officials, however, are significantly less impressed with the working group's assessment, and see it as a last-ditch attempt to vindicate an unfair trade barrier.

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.

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".

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".