Sentence examples for initially justified from inspiring English sources

Another was to pay east German workers far more than their productivity initially justified.

Although the cameras in Britain were initially justified as a way of combating terrorism, they soon came to serve a very different function.

President Bush initially justified intervention in Iraq on the grounds of Saddam's programs to develop weapons of mass destruction, the regime's alleged links to al-Qaida, as well as Iraq's violation of human rights and lack of democracy.

In the face of budget deficits as far as the eye can see, the administration -- determined to expand, not reconsider the program of tax cuts it initially justified with projections of huge surpluses -- must make a show of cutting spending.

Its position on Fiery Cross Reef, staked out back in the 1980s, was initially justified under the auspices of Unesco, which had called on the nations of the world to cooperate in collectively surveying the oceans for meteorological and navigation purposes.

The results obtained using the LMM to solve this three-dimensional fin design problem were initially justified numerically.

The shooting was initially found to be justified, but footage of the incident that was made public in November 2015 showed a white police officer firing repeatedly at McDonald as he walked away from police.

McDonnell chose his language knowingly when initially trying to justify his vision of Confederate History Month.

With the fight against opposition groups largely on hold thanks to an internationally brokered ceasefire, Russia is turning its attention to IS, the group whose threat Putin initially used to justify military intervention back in September.

Years later, historians still spar over whether the attacks were as serious as they were initially reported -- and whether they justified a major escalation of the war.

Here evidentialism is the initially plausible position that a belief is justified only if "it is proportioned to the evidence".