Sentence examples for impulse to justify from inspiring English sources

Neither speaker had any apparent discomfort in describing these schemes, nor any impulse to justify ends and means.

There's this impulse to justify and defend everything without realizing that it's through debate that people begin to understand each other.

Immense pressure is exerted on law enforcement agencies by their political mandarins to produce "results": pressure to produce a higher number of arrests but also the corollary, more dangerous, impulse to justify them at any cost.

In many cases, the independent and humble search for new truths about nature has become confused with the bureaucratic impulse to justify expenses and see that next year's budget is bigger than last's".

She stifled the impulse to apologise.

You resist the impulse to apologize.

I could try to justify that impulse by saying that I was pregnant at the time, feeling vulnerable and hormonal.

The same impulses toward extremism are used to justify war between Sunni and Shia, between tribes and clans.

But there is nothing stale in the play's portrayal of rational people trying to justify irrational impulses and losing themselves in the process.

The old control impulse is strong, but it's hard to justify to taxpayers in South Tyneside that their money is being thrown at lawyers in a Californian court so one councillor can sue another.

In her book, Flanders reflects on the emotional and psychological impulses behind what we consume and what we are willing to justify.