vindicate
They view the loss of life as a vindication of their belief that they are right.
I think the outcome is a complete vindication of the strong position that we took.
His vindication this week does give him the chance to make a new start.

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Examples of vindication

vindication
Functionalist analyses of representations as making irreducible differences to behavior are piecemeal vindications of the scientific significance of oldfashioned agent causation.
His vindication of the inferior's disobedience to illegitimate correction implied the exclusion of a coercive element from the legitimate process of correction.
It is thus misleading to characterize change blindness as vindication for the overall framework.
The argument became increasingly concerned with vindication, as the debate became steadily more acrimonious.
A no-rational-basis due process challenge may also be understood as the vindication of a respect-right.
They are not concerned with the pursuit of justice or the vindication of the innocent except insofar as this is a by-product of their professionalism.
And again, it is what the dignitary may bestow upon the manifestation of a vindication that is important.
However, this was hardly a positive vindication of his honour, integrity, or gentility.
And, ultimately, it wore an aspect of vindication.
Smarting from the accusation of blasphemy, he had provided the government with a sort of vindication shortly after his last acquittal.
Yet it is striking that his vindication of the inferior's immunity from obedience to illegitimate correction entails no explicit reference to the right of dissent.
It is not itself empirically vindicated but, rather, has become a framework for vindication.
There may be instances where the individual victim's satisfaction may be felt to be more important than the public vindication of property rights.
But since the affront requiring vindication is infinitely bad, the punitive response must be proportionally severe : it must be infinite as well.
This is some vindication of design space exploration as a model, both in terms of the quality of the papers and the great variety of emphasis in this field.
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