The government seeks to justify its prohibitions in other ways.

Those who seek to justify the sad fact that these men lost their jobs for the so-called good of the game are kidding themselves.

Here the judge sought to justify the course he took by saying, in effect, that the prosecution case was all but complete.

He calls his darkness light and seeks to justify himself by deeds.

There have always been people who sought to justify inequality.

We know what can't be known and then spend our lives seeking to justify that knowledge.

It's amazing that people seek to justify the violent sexual assault of children.

How they suffered, and sought for some meaning to justify that suffering!

We cannot do that by seeking to justify ourselves in terms of our attitudes to the war.

They seek to justify their action in terms of domestic public opinion.