Sentence examples for way of justification from inspiring English sources

I've seen them," he says, by way of justification.

By way of justification, he mumbled that the man had suffered only "damage to soft tissue".

By way of justification, he and his aides have referred to Article II of the Constitution, which designates him Commander-in-Chief.

When the abuse finally leads to murder — "I told her nobody can live on Chicken McNuggets and popcorn," her husband says by way of justification.

"That is how the Garcias got the land, by cleaning off the Indians," he says by way of justification, "and that is how we had to get it.

"If you look at where people go mentally in a day," says Neilson by way of justification, "it's quite wide-ranging".

Despite admitting violent abuse and, by way of a justification, his own intellectual inadequacy, Waterman claims: "She certainly wasn't a beaten wife, she was hit and that's different".

His texts, however, provide little in the way of philosophical justification and he dismisses the entire just war tradition by stating, "I believe that the right of war authorizes us to ravage the country".

When asked about it, the government's lawyer, Boies, admitted that he had presented no new evidence, but claimed that he was satisfied he had proven his case although precious little in the way of economic justification had been entered into the record.

(Russell was a sexual predator who permitted himself to become temporarily infatuated with the women he seduced. He pretended, by way of self-justification, to believe that his intimacy with Vivienne provided a form of marital therapy to the Eliots).

But their beliefs can't be justified in the way evidentialists conceive of justification.