Sentence examples similar to validate retroactively from inspiring English sources

"It is trying to retroactively validate its lawless activity," the statement said.

Congress is poised to retroactively validate hardball restructuring tactics in the bond market that courts have struck down in major reorganization cases like that of Caesars Entertainment.

If you're a writer, you hang all kinds of adolescent hopes on the release of your book: that it will prove you to be a serious person, retroactively validate all those years of what might've looked to uninformed observers like indolence and drink.

Her first Act of Parliament was to retroactively validate Henry's marriage to her mother and so legitimise her claim to the throne.

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So it's quite odd to see him retroactively validating those unfounded concerns now, and ascribing them to "most people" instead of misinformation by the gun industry and its political allies.

Then, relying on emergency legislation that retroactively validated the banking holiday, he used an executive order to demand that privately held gold be turned in to the government (with the government determining its worth).

The colony later retroactively validated some purchases made in violation of this prohibition.

It described the designation of the sovereign as a political question to be determined by the legislative and executive departments rather than the judicial department, invoked the established rule that such recognition operates retroactively to validate past acts, and found the basic tenet of Underhill to be applicable to the case before it.

So, is Tolkien's own luxurious study of Norse retroactively financially validated by box office and sales of Gandalf action figures with the face of Sir Ian McKellen, or was it worth doing anyway because a civilised country values knowledge in and of itself?

Mrs Thatcher started with a notion of Britain and only retroactively found it validated by Hayek and Bastiat.