7 sentences with 'justification'
Example sentences and phrases with the word justification and other words derived from it.
• « In turn, Zoroastrianism provided a spiritual justification for the expansion of the Persian Empire. »
• « Very quickly, however, the theory of evolution was taken over as a justification for both rigid class distinctions and racism. »
• « The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was first published in 1903 by the Russian secret police as justification for continued anti-Semitic restrictions in the Russian Empire, and subsequently gained prominence after World War I when it was used as "proof" that Jews had caused the war in order to disrupt the international political order. »
• « Any discussion of the Nazis must begin with Adolf Hitler. It is impossible to overstate Hitler's importance to Nazism: his own private obsessions became state policy and were used as justification for war and genocide. »
• « English promoters of colonisation pushed its commercial advantages and the religious justification that English colonies would enable the establishment of Protestantism in the Americas. »
• « Virginian Thomas Jefferson and John Adams of Massachusetts, with the support of Congress, articulated the justification for liberty in the Declaration of Independence. »