Sentence examples for means of justifying from inspiring English sources

The attacks were blamed on Chechen rebels, but his book echoed fears of state involvement as a means of justifying the second war in Chechnya.

Impact estimates during the design of trials, considering reasonable contingencies for outcomes, are suggested as a means of justifying the size, scope, and appropriate costs of studies.

Raymond Pettibon's beloved four-bar logo for the legendary hardcore punk band surfaced at Barney's this summer, serving as a means of justifying an overpriced garment, and perhaps as a symbol of the nostalgic commercialization of pretty much everything.

Before this date, "history" was of architectural importance only as a means of justifying, by reference to classical mythology, the use of certain otherwise irrational elements, such as caryatids.

He has always referenced US, Israeli and western policies in the Muslim world – in Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia, to list a few – as a means of justifying his deep belief in the use of political violence against western civilians.

Cicero emphasized these ideas as a means of justifying the killing of tyrants in his own time, and the conspirators against Julius Caesar in 44 bce presented their deed as both the overthrow of a tyrant and the restoration of the Roman Republic.

But the soldiers set Mr. Gittoes straight about the significance of his subject: music, often pumped through tank and Humvee sound systems into individual helmets, has become a soldier's chief means of personalizing, justifying, heightening and denying the experience of war.

They know that the striking of nationalist poses is mainly a means of embarrassing all opposition, of justifying the perpetuation of repressive "emergency" laws in place since 1963, and is all the more phony in that this old guard has done so much to incapacitate the country for a nationalist struggle of any kind.

But this indictment is symptomatic of the problem that is endemic throughout the Bush regime: ideologically driven intolerance for differences of opinion, a willingness to make the facts fit the case, and a pattern of justifying the means by the ends, however much they may be at odds with the truth.

However, this does not mean that we avoid the problem of justifying these higher risks in first-in-human studies.

Historically, othering has been used as a means to justify exploitation of the other group.