Sentence examples for helping to justify from inspiring English sources

That, it seems to me, was Chalabi's sin — helping to justify a decision that officials in the Bush Administration were inclined to make anyway.

So Liana's impromptu visit would provide the domestics with something to do, helping to justify the fact that bwana paid their children's school fees.

Except perhaps Mr. Posada, the Parliament president, who may have hoped to see Mr. Draghi showing a bit more solidarity and helping to justify his communications strategy.

For powerful interests in any setting, social research can also play a useful role in helping to justify, present or implement favoured policies.

The suffering of the passengers' families has provided an uneasy ballast to the obsessive speculation about the plane's fate, at once helping to justify the enormous attention to the story — by virtue of the tragic loss of life — and making that attention sometimes appear crass.

Three years of vicious crackdown and a radicalising opposition have diminished Bahrain's protest base, which once included Sunnis, thereby helping to justify the rulers' narrative.Observers document ongoing torture and reckon prisons now hold some 4,000 detainees from a local population of 750,000.

After all, the conflict helps to justify the large Russian garrison in Armenia.

As White House counsel, he helped to justify torture and illegal wiretapping.

The SLK is far from cheap, starting at $55,685, yet the deluxe cabin helps to justify the price.

The increases have helped to justify new requirements for stronger roofs and rearview cameras on automobiles and seatbelts on buses.

That may not convince those who would like to see the USPS shrink, but for those who want to preserve it, it could help to justify its scale.