Its primary purpose was not only to record history, but also to justify his and his family's rule and to display the power of Baekje.

During this conference he produced the casket letters which were supposed to incriminate Queen Mary, and justify his rule in Scotland.

How possible is it that the regime has caused the past sectarian strife to justify their rule?

Later, Assad used the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood to justify his heavy-handed rule.

In 1913, however, Bohr justified his rule by appealing to the correspondence principle, without providing any sort of wave interpretation.

Before, it had justified their arbitrary rule.

To justify their rule, the Zhou introduced the Mandate of Heaven.

But when Argentina triumphed, the military dictatorship then in power used the victory to justify its harsh rule.

The Freedom Party's determination to settle that mess once and for all helped justify its rule in Potter's eyes.

Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good.