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Example sentences for: justify

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They justify their actions with the fact that the men and women whose civil rights they routinely violate are involved in criminal activity, and therefore have no rights.
In addition, the federal government should require each state receiving federal emergency preparedness funds to provide an analysis based on the same criteria to justify the distribution of funds in that state.
“The result of such efforts to discredit Mexico and justify war was a widespread belief that the God--forsaken Mexicans were unworthy to keep the valuable resources and land they had inherited from Spain” (Sanchez 1990, 9).
Were he to announce that his scandal didn't justify criminal proceedings after all, he would be declaring himself a failure who had wasted the public's time and money.
That doesn't justify the ongoing disparity between criminal sentences for possession of powder cocaine and possession of crack--crack is much more likely to be used by blacks, and is punished much more harshly--but it does justify the tougher approach law enforcement agencies take in general today, as compared to two decades ago.