Sentence examples for upon justify from inspiring English sources

The pastors and pastoral students at the Thomas Road Baptist Church conceive of their activities in theological terms and could, if called upon, justify any one of them by a Biblical quotation.

Indeed, waterboarding and Iraq appear to be interconnected, as torture-induced information was relied upon to justify the invasion.

Presidential candidates who were in the Senate in October 2002 are particularly under the microscope, as they are being called upon to justify their votes for going to war.

In decades past, a transplant such as I might have been called upon to justify bringing up such an un-American event.

It does mean they "see" different dances to the audience and they shouldn't be surprised when they are called upon to justify themselves.

The fact that these actions are unjustifiable is only relevant if those who make them are called upon to justify them.

In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them.

All of the elements of that rule, including materiality, must be established if and when it is relied upon to justify certification.

The staff attend, but do not have a vote, and if an inmate is unhappy about anything they have done, they will be called upon to justify their actions to the wing.

But as true testimony by formerly enslaved people, it stood alone, Gates argues, as an indictment of "both those who enslaved them and the metaphysical system drawn upon to justify their enslavement".

"One thing we can say for certain is that the transparency the Supreme Court relied upon to justify this new framework has been sorely lacking," said Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which released the estimates on Wednesday.