Sentence examples for interpreted it to justify from inspiring English sources

But he said despotic rulers sought to impose their own reading of the sacred text as they crushed opposition, while their opponents interpreted it to justify their militant opposition.

As early as the fifth century, Cain's curse was interpreted as black skin, and millions of Christians have used it to justify slavery.

"They did it to justify their blockade".

Politicians deploy it to justify illiberal measures.

People are using it to justify dangerous investing decisions.

Some even use it to justify torture.

Politicians use it to justify war, while ISIS uses it to justify terrorism.

Apparently "freedom of religion" is so widely interpreted as to justify absolutely anything a fundamentalist Christian does.

The idea that Congress's power to regulate commerce "among the several States" could be interpreted to justify any federal legislation first took hold during the New Deal.

This provision is one of the most opaque in the legislation and could be interpreted to justify espionage on just about any head of state or company chief executive, though this would require ministerial approval.

"Put together, these events indicated a clear pattern of security threats that could only be reasonably interpreted to justify increased security for U.S. personnel and facilities in Benghazi," the letter said.