Sentence examples for its own justification from inspiring English sources

It was an existential act, its own justification in a context in which the creative imagination was under extreme pressure in a country in crisis.

They further insisted that it was enough that gravity did operate the way that Newton said it did, and that this was its own justification for accepting his theory.

"We have this idea — it's almost a fetish — that progress is its own justification, that if something is promising, then how can we not rush to relieve suffering?" said Paul Root Wolpe, a medical ethicist at Emory University.

Historians can debate the wisdom and efficacy of the cultural boycott, but it seems clear that to Simon great music is its own justification; depending on one's priorities, this can seem like a form of nihilism or a form of idealism.

"It is indisputable in my mind that excess in literature is its own justification...

If one "coalition" claims its own justification for starting wars without UN authorisation, where will it end?

Three main explanations, each with its own justifications and limitations then come into play: the political, the religious and the psychosocial.

Riel's motivations for allowing the execution have been the cause of much speculation, but his own justification was that he felt it necessary to demonstrate to the Canadians that the Métis must be taken seriously.

"What he's done the last seven days has been his own justification," said Jason Brogden, the lawyer for Midland City.

At this stage in his self-justification procedure, which was quickly curdling into a procedure of pleasurable self-laceration, he began to see everywhere he looked the illicit attempt to transform fiction writing into puzzle-solving, of which his own justification compulsion was merely one unremarkable example.

But for all that, Molly's absolute need to help is its own best justification.