Sentence examples for try to vindicate from inspiring English sources

"The state of Ohio certainly agrees that having a competent prisoner is a desirable thing" in post-conviction challenges, she said, "and that courts do have some discretion to try to vindicate that goal".

A friend who spoke to Mr. Rowland before Mr. Shays's news conference, but after it was clear that the congressman would call for him to step down, said the governor was resolute in his determination to try to vindicate himself.

But before that announcement, Alonso, the driver who profited from his teammate's crash last year to win the Singapore race, used his result Sunday to try to vindicate Renault and its former director.

His claims have compelled the Syrian government, already anxious over the rising tensions with Israel and the United States, to try to vindicate itself after a recent flurry of news reports that it may have ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons.

She came away excited that he had said some words to her. "There wasn't anything he said in the speech that I was against," Ms. Birch said, calling it his "last-chance speech" to try to vindicate his presidency before the next president takes over.

Mr. Cuomo's office issued a sharp retort, saying, "This is just Eliot and his minions still trying to vindicate Eliot".

Phone lines there were busy all day, and hundreds of voters traveled downtown in person, spending hours trying to vindicate their right to vote.

The defamation suit was necessary as Hockey tried to "vindicate his name, his reputation, against a totally false allegation of corruption, which the evidence will show was made maliciously," he said.

"But at what point is national security concern so great that a person can't get a fair trial?" Judge Karen J. Williams, appointed by the first President George Bush, suggested that she was sympathetic to some of the Justice Department's arguments but described Mr. Moussaoui as "an alien in the U.S. trying to vindicate his rights under the Constitution".

If psychologists are right to say that the sense of masculinity is less strongly rooted in males than that of femininity in women, then it's not surprising that members of the audience tried to vindicate their manhood by throwing punches or emitting howls.

But to see him repeatedly fouling his own nest, and trying by vain repetitions like Exit Ghost to drag down the level of his previous work, and insulting us with Indignation is to wonder whether in some awful way he isn't trying to vindicate the original accusation, as well as to make his old age shame his youth.' What any critic says now will have little traction with Roth.