Sentence examples for terms to justify from inspiring English sources

In 2012, the then international development secretary, Andrew Mitchell, used very similar terms to justify increased aid spending in the face of opposition from the Tory right (though he had to backtrack after he appeared to suggest that aid would help the UK sell fighter jets to India).

Controversially elected to his role as European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker  sought, uninvited, to try to mediate a Greek solution – trying to reshape the crisis in purely humanitarian terms to justify a more direct role for the commission and reduce the role of the IMF.

Stephen Johnson, who has headed EPA since 2005, used those terms to justify regulatory decisions that environmentalists said favored industry over public health.

Geneva established the terms to justify Russia's overt military intervention.

Conservatives all across the fringes of the Far Right call themselves "libertarians," using libertarian-sounding terms to justify an anti-libertarian agenda.

If you want a term to justify it, you can call it trading.

"We think the yield is enough in the medium term to justify a small position" of overweighting the index in Greek bonds, Mr. Keirle said.

The Atlantic article references Wikipedia to explain the fair use term: "To justify the use [of copyrighted material] as fair, one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new.

The turbine retrofit needs to provide sufficient economic benefit in the short- to mid-term to justify the investment.

"It is a term used to justify an operation.

With no near term catalyst to justify a higher target price, we move to hold.