Sentence examples for think to justify from inspiring English sources

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I just had to say something, as it was the only way I could think to justify, in some small way, blowing close to fifty bucks to have my intelligence insulted.

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He was arrested, briefly held, and given a warning on his return, but his profile was not thought to justify further action beyond circulating a security warning.

Was this the start of a backlash against big price, big ego celeb-comedy, in which an onstage parade of catchphrases is thought to justify ticket prices at which the Royal Opera would blush?

The difference, which Scalia labors to deny ("Certainly the books we give to children … contain no shortage of gore"), is sufficient, Alito thinks, to justify the state's interest in regulation, even though he finds the present attempt at regulation flawed.

To accomplish this, income tax statutes usually provide for (1) individual allowances or exemptions, which differentiate between large and small family units, and (2) deductions that give preferential treatment to taxpayers reporting expenditures that are thought to justify some lightening of their burden.

A similar rationale may be thought to justify informed consent in general, and to reflect our special relation to our bodies.

In the middle of the nineteenth century in the South, biblical literalism was very popular because it was thought to justify slavery.

J. D. Rockefeller, who used Darwinian thought to justify industrial monopoly without restraint, said, "The growth of large business is merely a survival of the fittest".

An individual's values, i.e., enduring motivations, are also thought to guide, justify, or explain attitudes and through attitudes, subsequent behaviors (e.g., Halman and de Moor, 1994; Rokeach, 1973; Schwartz, 1992; Williams, 1968).

Thus, MCADD is the disorder thought to most justify early detection by NBS (4).

"They are having a hard time, I think, continuing to justify their involvement in this case," Mr. Turner said yesterday.

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