Sentence examples for partly justifying from inspiring English sources

George Bush has long insisted on the existence of links between the two, partly justifying his decision to go to war with Iraq on those grounds.The Supreme Court overturned a ruling that the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance is unconstitutional.

The subducted young Shikoku Basin and its extinct spreading center (approximately 15 Ma Okinoo et al. 1994; Sano et al. 2009) beneath the Arima area may share thermal and hydration conditions with a young oceanic crust at the 504B site off the Costa Rica Rift (approximately 6 Ma), partly justifying the assumed isotopic composition in Figure 3.

The degree of ambivalence about the fall of Communism and the end of the East German state was evident in a survey published by the daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung, in which a third of Berliners thought that the building of the wall was either justified or partly justified to stem the tide of refugees leaving for the West.

If that leaves any doubts about the Left party's nostalgia for a wall that imprisoned 17 million people for nearly 30 years, a newspaper survey published this month by The Berliner Zeitung showed that 75 percent of that party's supporters in Berlin thought the wall was justified or partly justified.

The bullishness is partly justified.

That criticism was partly justified.

A decade on, the fears look partly justified.

Ovibos's common name is only partly justified.

(The Hartlepool circus suggests that this paranoia may be partly justified).

Like the NHS, it exerts a hold on public affection that is, objectively, only partly justified.

Shortly after this, the film offers up a surprise ending, which partly justifies the raucous means.