Great men are those who have had noble purposes to achieve, great tasks to perform or mighty causes to vindicate. From LearnThat.org.
vindicate a claim. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
vindicate the rights of the citizens. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
How does float within the MOE "vindicate" the McCain campaign that last's poll was an outlier?. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Up By Four Points Nationally] Reference
Wednesday Lee Cheuk-yan, a prodemocracy legislator, introduced a nonbinding motion to remember the crackdown and "vindicate" the student movement. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong Freedom Fight] Reference
More than 90\% of those who voted in a recent student union poll agreed that the Chinese government should "vindicate" the democracy movement. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Would pulling out of Iraq now vindicate the insurgents?. From Wordnik.com. [Competing for Connecticut] Reference
Both left and right cite its arguments to vindicate their claims. From Wordnik.com. [IT'S MORE THAN A WAR] Reference
(Both still vindicate Rand's reverence for markets by selling briskly.). From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
Agricultural meeting, to vindicate the character of his Belgian carrots. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
And yet the vindicator of Floyd intends, we are told, to vindicate himself!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Ultimately, he agreed to participate, believing that the film might help vindicate them. From Wordnik.com. [How A Rank Beginner Captured The Friedmans] Reference
Neither do I wish to write my "Memoirs," unless compelled to do so to vindicate my good name. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We are not called upon to deny this in order to justify or vindicate our proposals as useful. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
By the same token, Pakistan gives Kashmir top priority to vindicate its creation as an Islamic state. From Wordnik.com. [From Kabul to Kashmir] Reference
If other clubs sense that the elite are now vulnerable then the early results tend to vindicate them. From Wordnik.com. [Fulham show leaders of Premier League pack are no longer unassailable] Reference
His pages not only illustrate, they also vindicate, the character and claims of American nationality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
"We can't allow them to kill that old man, not even to vindicate poetical justice," he said, gravely. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
A sweetly priced deal would allow Bronfman to save face and vindicate his diversification strategies. From Wordnik.com. [For Sale By Owner?] Reference
Written to vindicate the group in Kobayashi's death, the books appear to accomplish just the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [The Corpse And The Cult] Reference
A purpose which aims to vindicate a loss and maintain the status quo will not motivate people to take action. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Warman Kern: Turning a Loss Into a Positive] Reference
The Times will want to quickly vindicate its decision, and the numbers probably will add up in the short term. From Wordnik.com. [Murdoch: Tablets are the future for News Corp] Reference
Mr. Daniels has said that power ultimately will pay big dividends for Lloyds and will vindicate the acquisition. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyds CEO to Retire] Reference
And so it is, but when history books get around to trying to vindicate Saddam, there won't be a lot to work with. From Wordnik.com. [The Final Push] Reference
I name him here, that I may vindicate his claim to remembrance, even when he is a blot upon the beauty around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
These flaws contributed to ever-growing deficits and rising inflation, and this seemed to vindicate the Friedmanites. From Wordnik.com. [The Change Agent] Reference
The Supreme Court can either vindicate traditional marriage, or forever redefine the most basic unit of human civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Klukowski: Marriage and the Constitution] Reference
At first, Oliver and Smith hoped that Abrams would vindicate them; they wrote a 19-page report responding to their critics. From Wordnik.com. [Fallout From A Media Fiasco] Reference
Putting a young child in chains is absolutely inhuman and no reasoning whatsoever can vindicate any such barbarous behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Predicting The Last Days] Reference
Bush's struggle to vindicate his family and outdo his father predisposed him toward completing a job his dad left unfinished. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing for a Way to Change the World] Reference
Today there is life amid the rubble; as if to vindicate the slaughter, the Serbs are determined to revive the "liberated" town. From Wordnik.com. [Vukovar: Now It's Serb City] Reference
Picton, has dared, in order to vindicate the harsh and partial conduct of his hero, to cast dust upon the facings of the brave boys of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The "miraculous" casualty figures seemed to vindicate the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar investment in high-tech weaponry during the past 10 years. From Wordnik.com. [The Military's New Image] Reference
The delay in the reauthorization would seem to vindicate a decision made by the developer of three other World Trade Center towers, Larry Silverstein. From Wordnik.com. [Liberty Bonds Stalled] Reference
Those who look for history to vindicate their mistakes are simply in denial of present reality and enraptured by a speculative future in which an end can justify their means. From Wordnik.com. [James Denselow: Iraq: Time for a People's History] Reference
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