Sentence examples for justified the first from inspiring English sources

He put the war in Iraq in the context of the war on terror, and justified the first by reference to the second.

In 1997 Paul Wolfowitz, the most important neo-con Vulcan, justified the first Bush administration's decision not to march into Baghdad on the grounds that "conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented".

While my concerns may be ultimately justified, the first issue of Batwing was pretty great.

It was, according to anecdotal accounts, especially popular with British and American soldiers who sought distraction from the horror of the trenches and the empty bromides used to justify the First World War.

Except, I've already acknowledged that mistake: The second [big mistake] was circa 2003, over the Bush administration's use of the illusion of victory in Iraq to push through more tax cuts, even though the optimistic budget projections used to justify the first round had proved completely wrong.

This justifies the first part of Claim (ii).

But throughout the 1630s, Descartes claimed that he also was in possession of a metaphysics that could justify the first principles of his physics, which he finally presented in the Meditations and Principles.

This justifies the first inequality because any n-parsimonious scenario cannot have a higher inconsistency score.

The second, which almost justifies the first, is the need for recourse to a third body, in this case to a scientific committee, to implement the legislation.

As many philosophers and scientists argue, the first approach doesn't justify the second.

The search leads to his absent father, now a Columbia University professor whose theories implicitly justify the Third Reich's atrocities.