Sentence examples for we were justifying from inspiring English sources

McKiernan, who said the agency disputed much of the audit, said the report "did not have any great influence on what we're doing; we always felt we were justifying the costs".

If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used.

"We were justified under the circumstances".

The hawks hyped the case (profusely) to prove we were justified in going to war, with or without allies.

Even if we were justified in removing Sadaam from power, we certainly ought not to now be involved in how the people of Iraq resolve their political differences.

"There's always been a belief that we were justified in our intervention in Afghanistan and have to give it time," he said.

Carlile had stated "we were justified in making arrests and that there was a compelling case for those arrests to be made.

Our tendency is take things personally, so personally that our egos and minds convince us that we were justified in acting in a way that hurt another person.

Soon, it seems, we are justified.

So we're justified in believing in germs, but not demons.

If this is correct, we are justified in dismissing such drastic measures.