Sentence examples for was partly justified from inspiring English sources

That criticism was partly justified.

Those who back the decision say it was partly justified as Khartoum was siphoning off some of the oil.

The merger was partly justified by the cost savings available from plans to merge the Orange and T-Mobile networks over the next four years.

The war on Iraq was partly justified by the threat of al-Qaida, who were not present when Saddam Hussein's murderous secular dictatorship ruled, but who ran amok in the country after the invasion.

I found this irritating in The Blue Book, partly because I wasn't convinced that the characters themselves would use the language or imagery they were ascribed (though this was partly justified by the maddening revelation that one of them was writing the book).

The bullishness is partly justified.

(The Hartlepool circus suggests that this paranoia may be partly justified).

Alarm about a more active role for the government in the economy turned out to be partly justified.

In a dance to Radiohead, the twitches can be partly justified as punctuation, acknowledgment of the beat.

Its continuing hostility is partly justified and entirely understandable, notwithstanding the Europeans' record-breaking display of righteous indignation (and that was a record which took some beating).

Yet Nehru's fear that the reorganisation would harden regionalist sentiments has also been partly justified.Mr Thackeray, who founded his party in 1966, began by attacking poor south-Indian migrants to Bombay, as Mumbai was then called.