Sentence examples for effort to justify from inspiring English sources

Galton made an honest effort to justify his belief in nature over nurture with hard evidence.

There's a huge effort to justify what's going on to the world.

It was official policy, an effort to justify the escalating expense of the shuttles.

"It's an effort to justify an increased United States role in the region".

How, then, can Mr. Brennan and other advisers to Mr. Obama (a former lecturer on constitutional law) condone this spurious effort to justify targeted killings?

Criticism in these journals often became a theoretical effort to justify critical choices that is, to rationalize what was often an intuitive appreciation of certain artists.

The justice secretary also said there were discrepancies in the medical documents Mrs. Arroyo provided in her effort to justify the overseas travel.

Nevertheless, it is clear that to-date public health researchers have devoted more effort to justifying their research topics than to clearly articulating why and how they intend to adopt a comparative research design.

Or so Pakistan's president seemed to suggest this week, in a series of impassioned efforts to justify his second seizure of power, on November 3rd.

Some have suggested that the increased dramatic content of those films is symptomatic of Chaplin's efforts to justify the praise lavished upon him by the critical intelligentsia.

I was also aware that on a personal level I'd need this validation of my efforts, to justify the risk and strain.