Sentence examples for efforts to justify from inspiring English sources

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.

He said the interim government would make the necessary efforts to "justify the sacrifices made by the Greek people over the past two years," referring to a raft of wage and pension cuts as well as hefty tax increases.

This is McCarthyism!" The White House made several efforts to justify Trump's claim, including using Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, as a conduit for the documents, which allegedly offered some substantiation.

Most broadly, Mr. Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General John Ashcroft, has led the administration's efforts to justify the use of brutal interrogation techniques in the name of fighting terrorism.

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?