Sentence examples for hope of justifying from inspiring English sources

Conversely, some administration officials are studying scientific arguments against the research, apparently in the hope of justifying a ban on the research along those lines.

The only thing postmodern thought argues against is the hope of justifying our response to the attacks in universal terms that would be persuasive to everyone, including our enemies.

He was also one of the main sources for a claim by Andrew Gilligan, then a BBC reporter, that Tony Blair's government had rewritten publicly-released intelligence to make it "sexier", in the hope of justifying the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

They spent years trying to distinguish themselves from the corporate mission of Microsoft and their HoloLens headset; now it seems they've begun to see that the only hope of justifying their sitting valuation in the next few years is enlisting support from the big customers that MSFT is chasing, as opposed to single-handedly birthing a consumer market.

"Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

(Think of the ego-starved firefighter who drops a strategically placed Molotov cocktail in hopes of justifying his existence by putting out the flames).

"And it comes with a lifetime satisfaction guarantee," I said later that night to my husband, hoping to justify my moment of purchasing madness.

What he does, however, is maintain a pace, hoping to justify his vast sheddings of the text by driving onward into the bitter bargainings of the second half.

To find weapons of mass destruction, he constructs an alternate reality, thereby hoping to justify an invasion in this (actual) reality.

She hopes to justify the usefulness — or at least to solve a bit of the mystery — of an activity that she loves but also, at times, doubts.

The Knicks can only hope he justifies their faith.