Vindicate

While he said he doesn't like to "use the word vindicate," Feldstein, who turns 72 next week, said he recently reviewed his euro-skeptic articles and "thought they were pretty much on target, even though they were written 20 years ago." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Later the same day, the-then White House counsel pressed the Justice Department's second highest ranking official to issue a statement that would "vindicate" Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How does float within the MOE "vindicate" the McCain campaign that last's poll was an outlier? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wednesday Lee Cheuk-yan, a prodemocracy legislator, introduced a nonbinding motion to remember the crackdown and "vindicate" the student movement. ❋ Helen Cheng (2009)

Its only purpose can be to do one of three things: self - "vindicate" bad loser revenge, sell products, such as advertising on Fox News, books, speaking tours etc. and/or troll for the unhinged on a "fishing expedition" for tomorrow's assassins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

KURTZ: But that goes to the broader point, which is one of the reasons this story has resonated, there is a widespread belief among critics, the BBC was sort of against the war, its reporting has been biased, and that they seized on this weapons of mass destruction story to kind of vindicate their point of view. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A default judgment would in no way "vindicate" Jones if the President's stated reason for refusing further to defend the suit was the (by now all-too-obvious) fact that defending would demean his office and unduly distract him from doing the people's work. ❋ Edmundson, William A. (1998)

As Professor Edmundson further points out, even though a default judgment would not "vindicate" Ms. Jones, if accompanied by a statement that the President chose not to demean his office by defending such a civil suit, there would be a question of public reaction. ❋ Edmundson, William A. (1998)

In a single instance, he admits the estimate of Bernal Diaz, who puts the loss sustained by the Indians in a battle at eight hundred; while Las Casas, whose corrections of other writers Mr. Wilson professes to "vindicate," says the loss of the Indians on this occasion amounted to thirty thousand. ❋ Various (N/A)

I speak not now of his claims by descent (for those even King Henry could not deny), but I maintain them, even in your Grace's presence, to be such as vindicate, from disloyalty and treason, me and the many true and gallant men who upheld them through danger, by field and scaffold. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

This stratagem will enable us to "vindicate" the suffering and martyrdom of the Gazans and eventually, in Edward Said's favourite words from the Caribbean poet Aimé Césaire, to meet "at the rendezvous of history" where "there's room for everyone." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though the documents were submitted in a sealed cover before a bench headed by chief justice KG Balakrishnan, the advocates, appearing for the chief minister, later said those documents would "vindicate" her allegation that CBI has been dragging the case for "political vendetta". ❋ Unknown (2010)

More than 90\% of those who voted in a recent student union poll agreed that the Chinese government should "vindicate" the democracy movement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Extrapolating from the panel's reasoning, why shouldn't the Florida legislature be able to "vindicate" parental rights be requiring that all students, not just public school students, be compelled to say the pledge unless they can get a parental waiver? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Supernova FCC tests 'vindicate' white space lobby Here we look at Extended Validation certificates, which build on SSL to protect web users against phishing attacks and other kinds of online fraud. ❋ Unknown (2008)