Sentence examples for excuse and justify from inspiring English sources

"Rapists rely on other men to excuse and justify their crimes against women," he wrote in The Huffington Post less than a year after his daughter's death.

We know that 'security' is so often used to excuse and justify state violence.

In short, Mr. Vice President, that it's all a desperate PR campaign to excuse and justify committing various war crimes.

Blackface is part of a history of dehumanization, of denied citizenship, and of efforts to excuse and justify state violence.

But there is ample evidence that many leaders of the poor countries have predictably made the wrong inference: that rich-country protectionism excuses, and justifies, going easy on relaxing their own barriers to trade.In fact, the protectionism of the poor and the rich countries must be viewed together symbiotically to ensure effective exports by the poor countries.

Few would dispute that our national culture has sometimes excused rape and justified the sexual power of men over women, or that Steubenville's football tradition has created a culture that elevates the status of its athletically gifted young men and too often excuses their indiscretions.

It also seems that some people in the community may maliciously accuse a disabled person of being a paedophile to excuse their hostility to them and justify violence.

As the waters churn just below the surface, Bannon's allies in the White House have been putting on a public show of support and offering excuses to justify his removal from the NSC.

"This society always finds excuses to justify the rape and murder of women.

There are no excuses to justify this kind of behavior, and you need to make your friend clear on that.

A few of the lessons those parents have taught their children are as follows: (1) disrespect boundaries; (2) make excuses to justify bad actions; (3) cheaters prosper; and (4) play the blame-game.