What does justifying mean?
Definitions for justifying
jus·ti·fy·ing
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Justifying
of Justify
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of justifying in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of justifying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of justifying in a Sentence
Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil:
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.
I am demanding answers from the Department of Defense on how they are justifying these troop cuts in Georgia, we cannot afford to reduce our military readiness at a time when the threats to our security here at home and throughout the world are growing at an alarming rate.
But we can't exonerate the West for its insulting of the prophet. I'm not justifying what happened, but these are causes, just as we condemn extremists, we must also condemn these freedoms that have reached the point of insulting the prophet.
I'm not just justifying Putin, but you watch, he'll get bogged down there. He'll be there. He'll spend a fortune. He'll be begging to get out. Everybody that's gone to the Middle East has had nothing but problems.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
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