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Example sentences for: justifying

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No, what was surprising was that in the course of justifying this bit of interest-group entrepreneurship, the Friends of the Earth PAC was able to state that, looking at both candidates' years in Congress, Bradley had a significantly more pro-green voting record than Gore.
Since the press itself largely creates the perception with its coverage, justifying the coverage on the basis of the perception is a convenient form of circular reasoning.
The Washington Post once got widely mocked for an editorial justifying the publication of a damaging rumor about a public official with the argument that while the rumor may not be true, it is true there is a rumor.
, but here we give examples of his third case only, where “there should not be two parties justifying even a momentary doubt about which the pronoun represents.”
Others find the humor too vicious to be funny and accuse Allen of justifying his own misdeeds.