Sentence examples for called upon to justify from inspiring English sources
In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them.
The fact that these actions are unjustifiable is only relevant if those who make them are called upon to justify them.
In decades past, a transplant such as I might have been called upon to justify bringing up such an un-American event.
It does mean they "see" different dances to the audience and they shouldn't be surprised when they are called upon to justify themselves.
Presidential candidates who were in the Senate in October 2002 are particularly under the microscope, as they are being called upon to justify their votes for going to war.
The staff attend, but do not have a vote, and if an inmate is unhappy about anything they have done, they will be called upon to justify their actions to the wing.
Asked in later years to rationalise or even justify his good fortune, he reflects: "It's a strange world when you are called upon to explain why you weren't murdered as a child".
Indeed, waterboarding and Iraq appear to be interconnected, as torture-induced information was relied upon to justify the invasion.
The harm principle is relied upon to justify various infectious disease control interventions including quarantine, isolation, and compulsory treatment.
