Sentence examples for seek to justify from inspiring English sources

Mr Cameron replied that IRA terrorism was "never justified and people who seek to justify it should be ashamed of themselves".

Don't seek to justify or explain why they are wrong.

Jesse and Frank did, in fact, always seek to justify their banditry on grounds of persecution.

Landowners seek to justify their grip on the UK by rebranding themselves as business owners.

They may then seek to justify their violations as inevitable and realistic behaviour in armed conflict.

The UK would surely seek to justify the current system on that basis.

This is a problem constantly faced by those who seek to justify counter-terrorism spending.

"I started off making work that did seek to justify Islam.

Put yourself in their boots as they seek to justify another contract and keep food on the family table.

It said these soldiers had "knowingly put forward false accounts in order to seek to justify their firing".

Saville said: "Many of these soldiers have knowingly put forward false accounts in order to seek to justify their firing".