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794 examples of Justify in a sentence

And they did not turn out to be the Islamist boogeyman that the dictators were always using to justify their regime.
There's no audience like this to justify their rehearsal time.
And when you're in a situation where you have to justify every moment of your existence, you're put in the situation where you react in a very different manner.
So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.
So then I would kind of justify not writing by giving a gift.
I had been using the first line of the NASA mission statement, "To understand and protect the home planet," to justify my talks.
And also important is talking to communities so that we change interpretations of religious or customary law, which is too often used to justify punishment and fuel stigma.
Not to justify what they wrote, right?
There's something sacred about a space where you can work on a project, and you don't have to justify to anyone that it's going to make a lot of money, that it's going to save mankind, or even that it's feasible.
If, for any reason, they feel that this might not be possible, then I think they should have to ethically justify why the clinical trial should be conducted in the first place.
Writing such an unjustifiable sentence and continuing in order to justify it, Kafka's work became the masterpiece of contemporary literature.
We justify the burning, as scientists, because it does remove the dead material and it allows the plants to grow.
It's such a rare disease, it would be hard for a company to justify spending hundreds of millions of dollars to generate a drug.
RNG: The appeal to religion to justify the otherwise unjustifiable, such as the ban on contraception.
They said it's worth too much damage to our society to justify the gains.
They have been called many names from criminals to terrorists, and I cannot justify their illegal means, but the ideas they fight for are ones that matter to us all.
Many people justify the high cost of neuroscience research by pointing out that it may help us someday to treat brain disorders like Alzheimer's and autism.
It's hard to make the better choice, and it is so easy to justify a lesser one.
No one can justify slavery today.
Where terrorists cite Quranic verses to justify their atrocities.
So they claimed that Africans were biologically inferior and destined to be slaves, making great efforts to justify this theory.
Yet, dependence on another to justify our existence easily leads to boredom and power games.
If the inflationary consequences of using SDRs in this way are benign, it could be used to justify the additional, extra issuance of SDRs, say, every five years, again, with the commitment that developed-market countries would direct their share of the new reserves to the Green Climate Fund.
What are we supposed to do? Do we stay in for life, or do we do something else and justify and say, well, my intentions were good, and therefore I cannot be held responsible for all of it?
But remember, it's art, so you can justify it, perhaps, in some way.
Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself; to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like "the sharing economy," and "disruption" and "global resourcing."
But people just haven't been able to justify the cost.
And my personal favorite: How can we justify wiping out an entire species that we consider harmful to humans off the face of the Earth, using this technology?
So my plea today to everyone, especially those who sincerely believe in Islamist jihadism ... refuse dogmatic authority; let go of anger, hatred and violence; learn to right wrongs without even attempting to justify cruel, unjust and futile behavior.
I'd seen the educational promised land, and I could not for the life of me justify the disparity.
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