Sentence examples for justify us from inspiring English sources

But their hypocrisy doesn't justify US conduct.

Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated this allegation in his February 2003 speech to the UN to justify US action in Iraq.

It helped him to promote Kennedy's flagship Alliance for Progress in Latin America, and then, under Lyndon Johnson, to justify US military policy in Vietnam.

He asks, "What magic is there in the pronoun 'my' that should justify us in overturning the decisions of impartial truth?"[2] Singer has famously pushed the logic further, arguing that we should do everything within our power to help strangers meet their basic needs, even if it severely compromises our kin's happiness.

A. He may and probably will turn out to be a perfectly respectable president, whose achievements will be disheartening compared with what we had expected, but who nevertheless will have done well enough to justify us in renominating him — for you must remember that to renominate him would be a very serious thing, only to be justified by really strong reasons.

That's because they justify us only in conjunction with whatever beliefs their best explanation brings in.

"They [Antifa] feel that the philosophies that we're putting forward are violence in themselves, so that's how they justify using violence against us.

Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman all justified US intervention (military aggression and conquest) on similar grounds.

That justifies us to move forward to develop missile defense, and to eventually deploy it".

"It long ago reached a level that would have justified us in taking appropriate measures of self-defense on the territory of Cambodia.

"Anyone who makes the argument that 'once we have told you we have constitutional concerns and then you pass it anyway, that justifies us in ignoring it' — that is a constitutional violation.