Sentence examples for behaviour to justify from inspiring English sources

There has been no demonstrable change in Pakistan's behaviour to justify the enormous reward of a visit by India's prime minister.

Although the cost of stockpiling antiviral treatment is substantial, relying on behaviour change to justify scaling back stockpiles is not supported by the evidence.

[Interview 050] Finally, trade-offs were evident in that adherence to healthy recommendations in one lifestyle behaviour was used to justify a reward of a different, but unhealthier, behaviour.

They said that they try to be healthier in one area of their lifestyle (i.e. food behaviours) in order to justify being less healthy in another (e.g. alcohol consumption).

Is it possible that we're simply offering post-hoc explanations in an effort to justify behaviours to which we're naturally driven?

Professional endorsement of behaviour change was particularly valued when it helped to justify and resolve behaviour change, for example referring to a formula feed given at a particularly difficult time as a 'crisis bottle' and using a woman-centred approach 'it's up to you'.

She's not ashamed, and, more important, she makes no attempt to justify her behaviour.

Perhaps that is just the rationalisation that I have always used to justify my behaviour.

My job now is to muster some killer, steel-enforced argument with which to justify my behaviour.

In internal memos, HSBC displayed concern about handing over the banknotes, but sought to justify its behaviour by recording: "RC goes to great lengths to maintain discretion".

These countries have their fair share of red-light-ignorers, of course, but you'll rarely find them trying to justify their behaviour as a matter of principle.