To supply these, reservoirs were formed on such a scale as to justify the term "consecrated lakes," by which they are described in the Singhalese annals.
Footnote 1: Kalah may possibly be identical with the Singhalese word gala, which means an "enclosure," and the deeply bayed harbour of Galle would serve to justify the name.
I know nothing more tragically ironical than that the Power which has broken all laws, human and divine, should seek to justify the condemnation of Edith Cavell with all the pomp of a tribunal of justice.
We find nothing to justify the rebellion, and have no sympathy with those who do.
Nothing appearing to justify the suspicion, he was dismissed with uncommon civility.
The tories in the house of commons having concurred so heartily with the inclinations of the people, resolved, as far it lay in their power, to justify the conduct of their party in the preceding parliament.
Williamson, the supposed bearer of it, had obtained a pass for Flanders, and a messenger being sent in pursuit of him, secured his clothes and portmanteau; but after a very strict examination nothing appeared to justify the intelligence.
Several persons were seized, and some witnesses examined: but nothing appeared to justify the information.
This long preamble, madame," resumed the princess with dignity, "exposes the past in order to justify the future.
It is so sweet tojustify the confidence we inspire.
It does not seem to me that the facts in this case, so far as they have been developed, justify the passage of this act.
Much of this violence can be traced to race prejudice and competition of labor, which can not, however, justify the oppression of strangers whose safety is guaranteed by our treaty with China equally with the most favored nations.
That the said Anderson appears very assiduously to have sought for grounds to justify the execution of this part of his instructions, to which, however, he was at all events obliged to conform.
He pointed out, moreover, that some far-fetched plea is nearly always needed to justify the presence of a cut in any but the work it was designed for.
But it was not every printer who took so much trouble as Cennini to justify the omission.
In his preface he states that Reuwich was expressly taken on the expedition to illustrate the narrative, and he certainly had ample skill to justify the engagement.
Possibly there is more of history or of past or present notions of policy its explanation than is there suggested, and at any rate I do not care to justify the rule.
There must be provocation sufficient to justify the passion, and the law decides on general considerations what provocations are sufficient.
Philosophy may find a hundred reasons to justify the instinct, but it would be totally immaterial if it should condemn it and bid us surrender without a murmur.
We shall now see that under their shadow at least two well-marked groups arose, each of magnitude and individuality sufficient to justify the assignment to it of a separate position.
It is certain, at least, that the calumnious perversion of the speeches and resolutions of the Huguenot conference was employed to inflame the passions of the mob, as well as to justify the atrocities of the morrow in the eyes of the world.
The same excuse served to justify the court in posting a body of twelve hundred arquebusiers, a part along the river, a part in the immediate neighborhood of Coligny's residence.
There is nothing to justify the application of the word "puny" to him, except that he was of small stature.
There is nothing, I repeat, to justify theuse of the word, by Mather, in the sense he designed to convey, of bodily weakness.
Had it been affection, the girl has that to justify the fraud.
There is little novelty in the expedient of seeking to justify the delinquency of individuals, by the failings of society.
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