Sentence examples for held to justify from inspiring English sources

Put together, these values are held to justify regimes which, to the West, look illiberal.

But this is a strange kind of justification: the absence of apocalypse is held to justify a permanent state of emergency, extending indefinitely into the future.

(The doctrine of innate ideas, which was widely held to justify religious and moral claims, had its origins in the philosophy of Plato [428/427 348/347bce], who was still a powerful force in 17th-century English philosophy).

In 1971 freedom of the press was held to justify The New York Times newspaper in publishing articles based on the so-called Pentagon Papers, a classified history of U.S. military involvement in Indochina.

This use of the word differs from Aristotle's original application of it (in his Prior Analytics, ii, 27) to a rhetorical syllogism (employed for persuasion instead of instruction) based on "probabilities or signs"; i.e., on propositions that are generally valid or on particular facts that may be held to justify a general principle or another particular fact.

The existence of these real and independent kinds of things is held to justify our scientific inferences and practices.

Notice first that the arguments for open ballots invoked above in the context of an "aggregation of private interests" view of voting, equally hold to justify the publicity of debates taking place between representatives.

In this interpretation, public reason only applies to the justification of the constitution that constrains the process of democratic decision-making, but is not required to extend to the substantive (as opposed to the procedural) reasons people might hold to justify a decision.

Two concert tours were held to promote the album, The Justified and Stripped Tour (2003) and The Stripped Tour (2003).

However, Belgian authorities released Cheffou on Monday afternoon, saying they did not have evidence to justify holding him.

It clearly holds enough promise to justify further talks without Congress imposing new sanctions or impeding the president's right to conduct foreign policy.A deal would push Iran further from a bomb.