Sentence examples for cited to justify from inspiring English sources

Bureau of Labor Statistics data on lawyer salaries is often cited to justify the assertion that law school is not economically justified based on current lawyer salaries.

What will Guantánamo be cited to justify, two centuries from now?

It was the perceived Chinese threat that India cited to justify its nuclear test in 1998.

Worsening violence by Islamist militants along the northern border with Afghanistan might be cited to justify such an action.

The case for shifting some senior hospital medical staff hours from weekdays to weekends is also problematic, and the evidence that Cameron cited to justify it is disputed.

But mutual suspicion and rivalry for resources mean that China will remain India's main strategic threat the one it cited to justify the 1998 nuclear tests.

Invoking the same principles that he now cites to justify his leaks, he said: "I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression".

Does he not realise that his example is the first thing Tories cite to justify their proposal to cap council house eligibility at £55,000? "Well, they're going to do it anyway," he retorts.

But the Justice Department does not "consider itself to have authority to maintain custody of DOD detainees under the" Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), the law passed by Congress that the US government cites to justify the detention of Guantanamo captives.

Only about 32% of the trials mentioning the review explicitly described having used it to inform study design; 15 cited it to justify the choice of the primary reference treatment, whereas seven cited it to explain why they had chosen not to use the primary reference treatment.

Some administration officials cited R2P to justify Mr. Obama's backing of NATO-led ainstrikes in Libya in 2011, which headed off a potential massacre of rebels by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.