Sentence examples for tend to justify from inspiring English sources

"They see what Russia is doing in Ukraine differently from other Estonians, they tend to justify the annexation of Crimea.

I tend to justify long periods of inactivity with the pigheaded idea that if something doesn't come naturally, it wasn't meant to be.

We tend to justify our political positions by citing airy principles: the separation of church and state, the efficiency of the market.

In drug-ravaged communities, where the ends tend to justify the means, that was enough to turn Mr Thaksin into a hero.His downfall, and Thailand's political crisis, have sapped police efforts to stop the traffickers.

Market liberals tend to justify free trade and technological progress by pointing out that the increase in aggregate income they generate is big enough to compensate the losers and still leave society as a whole better off.

This strand of literature argues that firms with low level of profitability tend to justify such unimpressive corporate performance through reporting their environmental activities.

Subsequent events have tended to justify the general astonishment.Among the responsibilities embraced by "The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister" are local government and the fire service.

"It seems like women's prices go up every year by 20percentt, but the make of the product tends to justify that," Mr. Frasch said.

"It tends to justify the way the world economy is being restructured for the benefit of a small elite," said Raul Delgado Wise of the University of Zacatecas in Mexico.

Michael P. Steinberg thinks that the inscription "Dem Deutschen Volke" ("To the German People") should be expunged from the facade of the Reichstag building because the concept of "das Volk" is a racist anachronism that tends to justify oppression (letter, April 4).

However, the idea that one has evidence in such circumstances seems to sit somewhat awkwardly with the themes that evidence tends to justify belief, and that rational thinkers are sensitive to their evidence.