Sentence examples for so as to justify from inspiring English sources

Mr Yanukovych may try to provoke the protesters so as to justify the use of force.

Undercover officers behaved violently among the peaceful throng so as to justify an oppressive policing response.

We decline to hold that an arrest on the street can provide its own 'exigent circumstance' so as to justify a warrantless search of the arrestee's house.

According to the petitioners, New York has no "compelling state interest" in its delayed-enrollment scheme so as to justify such disenfranchisement, and hence the scheme must fall.

Players imbued the game with these desirable attributes so as to justify their participation and to make it more attractive to similarly minded men.

He also suggests I claim the United States tried to incite a "direct clash" between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq "so as to justify its presence in Iraq".

Instead, under the direction of Andreas Morell, we often saw Mr. Gergiev's face and upper body; I admire that — unlike some conductors today — he never hams it up for the camera, but he is neither so handsome nor so expressive as to justify repeated viewing.

In the middle of the spectrum are agencies and individuals whose procedures are not so risky as to justify straight-forward prohibition but are risky enough so that those whose rights are threatened seem to have some rights-based justification for suppressing those procedures.

Even if this so-called hyping does occur on occasion, it is not so widespread as to justify the serious charge that epidemiologists do not appropriately evaluate their data and that they actively seek to publicize unsubstantiated findings in only one direction.

That Naomi Wolf's version of unwanted touching, as a 20-year-old student, allegedly by her then tutor, the revered literary critic Harold Bloom, should sound – "The next thing I knew, his heavy, boneless hand was hot on my thigh" – so similar to the recent recollections of Lib Dem women does not, of course, indicate that such behaviour is so unexceptional as to justify the party's complacency.

The risks posed by Iraq may be unique and so compelling as to justify an exception.