Sentence examples for figures to justify from inspiring English sources

The sales staff could then point at these sales figures to justify later sales.

If the government uses the commission's figures to justify its decision, it will be relying on estimates that are out of date, invalid and incompatible with its international commitments.

They have set themselves up for another clash over drugs policy by questioning whether the published figures represent "sloppy science or whether there has been some attempt to massage figures to justify the current political focus and new review on legal highs".

The poor quality of the data currently being discussed in the media raises the question of whether this is just sloppy science or whether there has been some attempt to massage the figures to justify the current political focus on legal highs.

Home secretaries have long used quarterly crime figures to justify their crime-fighting policies.

Garamendi relied on those figures to justify his nearly 15% rate reduction.

While the film made under $1 million in its first week, it was considered "a highly respectable showing for a heritage biopic" and enough of a figure to "justify a ten-week run".

The past return figures used to justify current return assumptions often start in the early 1980s.

The whistleblower on the failings of the BBC's Digital Media Initiative, the IT project scrapped last year at a cost of nearly £100m to licence fee payers, has claimed figures used to justify continuing with the initiative were "like Enron".

In May 2012, shortly after Lend Lease submitted its planning application, Glasspool lodged a freedom of information request to see the figures used to justify this apparent breach of policy.

Threaten to force popular programmes such as Strictly from their primetime slots – which would lead to tumbling BBC viewing figures, helping to justify future attacks – and then perform a U-turn, and that's all people will notice.