He showed the pages of poetry he had written so as to justify why he had stayed up all night. From LearnThat.org.
justify the margins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The word justify means to declare or treat as righteous. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
While hard to justify from a financial point of view, from a strategic point of view this makes sense. From Wordnik.com. [An Offer Yahoo Can’t Refuse - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The same tendency to justify from the surface and not trust the public to understand the depth has been visible in President Obama's partial explanations of Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation] Reference
We have seen several examples in the last two years of situations which were handled very poorly and of decisions which were hard to justify from a purely economic point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Quebec Update] Reference
Post: To justify or not to justify, that is my question!. From Wordnik.com. Reference
So does saying a bad word justify Mr. Walter's dismissal?. From Wordnik.com. [Leader Call Homepage] Reference
Nor does simply taking bin Laden and all the other Islamic fascist leaders at their word justify their world view. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
To become the victim of the anaesthetic delusion regarding them is to justify; and to justify is to share responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
But faith is said to justify, that is, to absolve; because by it a just man is absolved of, and forgiven his unjust actions. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference
Whenever one of their people seem to commit some crime that they cannot justify, that is the blanket excuse that they use to dismiss their actions from the plate. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
Now he's trying to parse the meanings of "justify"?. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney vs. Ignatieff on waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - Blog Central - Macleans.ca] Reference
There were also practical grounds to "justify" the order, for. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
No matter whose lives would need to be trashed in order to "justify" it. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Friedman: Eyes Only and Lies Only...Let's Make Sure the Story Is Told...] Reference
And the BS reasons he uses to "justify" some of his creative decisions. From Wordnik.com. [THE ULTIMATES #5 Marvel Comics, 2002] Reference
And, 'justify' is not the operative word to apply to Michelle's statement. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary] Reference
Governments wage war to 'justify' the funds spent on weapons of destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Cable News' War Against America; Time to Fight Back] Reference
I feel your written words stand up well enough without numbers to 'justify' them. From Wordnik.com. [Poll - To Number Or Not to Number] Reference
If the passage was a statement of fact, then the defendant has "justify" the fact. From Wordnik.com. [BCA v Singh: An Astonishingly Illiberal Ruling] Reference
I don't need to "justify" the "starting presuppositions" Benedict is talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Essence/energies: a reply to Benedict Seraphim] Reference
The state of Israel does not need to "justify" its humane treatment of the non-citizens in. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Constitution to "justify" his family's need to live in 60 rooms, in a 11,000-square-foot home. From Wordnik.com. ['I Nearly Slapped My Little Cousin's Face': A Letter to The Observer] Reference
And the concocting of the sorts of incidents that "justify" such attacks is a familiar practice. From Wordnik.com. [TomDispatch: Noam Chomsky on "the Iran Effect"] Reference
This is precisely why I cannot stand hearing any sort of artist "justify" or "explain" their work!. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Question] Reference
But in his letter to the editors of this Review, Mr. Ruchames says he did not "justify" the killings. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on John Brown] Reference
Acts of enormity require rational explanations that somehow 'justify' the the varieties of pain they cause. From Wordnik.com. [I am reluctantly changing my mind] Reference
The dance he did to "justify" the invasion was cringe-worthy and exposed the worst kind of American arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [pellinore] Reference
To enable a compositor to space evenly and to "justify" properly, these spaces are cast to various thicknesses. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
Creating synthetic fear of Iranian nuclear weapons is simply the best way to "justify" bringing about regime change. From Wordnik.com. [Coleen Rowley: Only Obama Can Manage the Iran Situation] Reference
It is so important to be able to 'justify' what we do and show how learning is improving, for teachers as well as for students. From Wordnik.com. [EdubloggerCon NECC 2008 - Where shall we go?] Reference
The attempt by Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon to 'justify' not going too well it seems it's Poison Pen 'idea' would tend to support this. From Wordnik.com. [OPEN THREAD] Reference
So Sessions picks apart her thousands of judicial decisions, and finds three that he disagrees with, to "justify" his superficial position. From Wordnik.com. [Sessions to 'withhold...consent' on Sotomayor] Reference
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