Sentence examples for it as a justification from inspiring English sources

Both entities have unequivocally endorsed the ICJ ruling and have cited it as a justification for their own rights of secession, despite undoubted opposition from Moscow.

He portrayed their plot as an attempted coup and used it as a justification for rounding up and murdering hundreds of thousands of alleged Communists throughout Indonesia.

Somehow "But Gorsuch!" does not cut it as a justification for voting someone into office whose mental fitness is continually in doubt.

In Ms May's church, they probably skipped over the feeding of the 5,000 lest any vulnerable person misinterpret it as a justification for socialism.

It is now just convenient for them that they seek to enter into the historical memory with a different interpretation and ride it as a justification".

"I really think that saying that kind of thing and then linking it, and using it as a justification to reduce any federal funding is really an issue..

Perhaps he might see it not as a justification for violence, but as a somber and fatalistic meditation on what we might as well call original sin.

The shift in the debate from the Democratic side reflected a sudden confluence of events: the administration's admission of error regarding the State of the Union speech, the continuing carnage in Iraq and the failure of the United States to find the weapons that it used as a justification for invading Iraq.

Sometimes it is used as a justification for terrible things in other countries... it is destabilizing everything.

4. Use it as a legal justification to mercilessly troll Bono across all major social media platforms.

"It is invoked as a justification for some of the coarsest expressions of hatred and intolerance," Daniel Letwin, an associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, told me.