Sentence examples for members to justify from inspiring English sources

That makes it tougher for some members to justify a yes vote to their constituents back home.

In a series of testy exchanges, Scott D. O'Malia, a Republican member of the commission, pressed agency staff members to justify what he called "duplicative" requirements.

Without enough members to justify the visit, Mr. Daley has decided to consolidate his visit with a similar mission planned later this month by Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, a Commerce Department spokeswoman said.

Backing the teachers' union in the case, Verrilli pressed the court's conservative members to justify their apparent move toward overturning a unanimous 1977 supreme court decision, Abood v Detroit Board of Education, that upheld a requirement that public school teachers pay union fees, even when they opt out of joining the union.

Our analysis examines how the ideal of governmentality is constructed by staff members to justify and criticize the operations of the Copenhagen methadone maintenance program.

But with all due respect to the Security Council, the legal arguments its members deploy to justify their prior political choices are not especially gripping.

The concept of snitching originated with outlaws and gang members seeking to justify vengeance on conspirators who informed on their partners-in-crime.

Both struggled to excuse the behavior of their family members and to justify their own last-ditch attempts to rein them in: I made a promise to my father!

Everyone just rolls their eyes every time a high ranking member attempts to justify the quality of them," said one Afghan vet still in the forces who wished to remain anonymous because he wasn't authorized to speak with the media.

Everyone just rolls their eyes every time a high ranking member attempts to justify the quality of them," said one Afghan vet still in the forces who wished to remain anonymous because he wasn't authorised to speak with the media.

Mr. Menchini underwent a major grilling at a City Council hearing earlier this month, where members pushed him to justify spending roughly $50 million to build the system over two years when libraries, health care programs and schools face large cuts.