Sentence examples for justification cited from inspiring English sources

Another justification cited for the shelling of the village was that such action had been cleared by the South Vietnamese authorities responsible for the area of operations.

(It is revealed that Mme. Saint Laurent, though long resident in Paris, is originally from Quebec. The opera is written in French, which the Met, with scant justification, cited as reason for cancelling the commission).

The panel's staff created controversy last month with an interim report that largely discounted theories about close ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, another major justification cited by the Bush administration for invading Iraq.

Putin's justification citing the need to protect Russian citizens was the same as he used to launch a 2008 invasion of Georgia, where Russian forces seized two breakaway regions.

Authorized by an act of a complacent Congress bowing to a disingenuous administration, the Defense Department acted last week to withhold evidence of its own misconduct, based on an illusory justification citing the safety of U.S. troops abroad.

But the justifications cited for the world's largest music services paying negligible rates for music do not wash.

That finding appeared to undermine one of the main justifications cited by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney for invading Iraq and toppling Mr. Hussein.

It was Rosenstein who wrote one of the key justifications cited by Trump.

As justification they cited a clause in the National Planning Policy Framework, a creation of the current government, which says that the loss of a listed building can only be allowed "in order to achieve substantial public benefits".

Mr. Blair's loyalty to the president has remained steadfast even though the perception that he favors America over Europe has undermined his ambition to become a leader on the Continent, and the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq -- the justification he cited to win Britons' support for war -- has cut his popularity at home.

Perfectionist justifications are cited when a beneficiary acts gratefully in order to develop certain other virtues within himself.