1 Ministers must appear before parliament and justify their actions.
2 No argument can justify a war.
3 He decided there was insufficient evidence to justify criminal proceedings.
4 Several reasons were put forward to justify the imposition of censorship.
5 If satisfied they indicate that an appropriate level of concern exists to justify legal intervention but an order will not automatically follow.
6 They haven't been given these rights for eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
7 "And old Madam Reed, or the Misses, her daughters, will be solicited by you to seek a place, I suppose?" "No, sir; I am not on such terms with my relatives as would justify me in asking favours of them--but I shall advertise."
8 It seemed like he was using any hook, no matter how flimsy, to justify the Wall Street bailout that the Washington and New York elite pushed through.
9 The defence team deployed peremptory challenges, which can be used by both sides for purely strategic reasons with no imperative to justify their use, to nix Indigenous people from being considered as jurors.
10 The act was barely justified by the circumstances.
11 Such action can be justified on the grounds of greater efficiency.
12 As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
13 Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
14 In the Chief Constable's view the use of force was fully justified.
15 The boy justified himself by saying he did not begin the fight.