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Example sentences for: justifying

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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.
"Inconsistencies and ambiguities, real or imagined, are to journalists as catnip to the cat," shrugged the New York Daily News , justifying the drug story's persistence.
, 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.”
I was unable to find any comment by the author justifying the use and application of the (million-word British) International Corpus of English (ICE-GB).
In Madrid, an editorial in El Mundo Wednesday took Primakov to task for justifying Russia's opposition to the bombing of Serbia by citing the example of Basque separatism in Spain.