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justify
I don't see how the injuries justify the helter-skelter, 26th-ranked power play.
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Every government agency and program should be required to justify its existence.
From the dispatch.com
The judge asked the prosecution to justify its use of the peremptory challenges.
From the latimes.com
Liberal ratings have helped banks justify liberal treatment of dodgy bank loans.
From the businessweek.com
The problem is that we've all come to rely on Facebook to justify our existence.
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Warm-up wins have bolstered confidence and could justify world ranking of seven.
From the bbc.co.uk
I just don't understand how people can justify what they are doing as martyrdom.
From the economist.com
For all the hoo-ha, evidence to justify Idaho's lupine anxiety is underwhelming.
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The remaining tracks, three of them guitar standards, justify the album's title.
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- Show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"
- Show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim"
- Apologize: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
- Absolve: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
- Adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"
- (justification) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
- "Justify" is the third single by Scott Stapp and the second from his debut album, The Great Divide, released in 2005. Stapp toured with INXS in support of this song in the summer of 2006.
- (Justification (legal)) Justification can be a defense in a prosecution for a criminal offense. When an act is justified, a person is not criminally liable even though his act would otherwise constitute an offense.
- (Justification (typesetting)) In typesetting, justification (can also be referred to as 'full justification') is the typographic alignment setting of text or images within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right margin. Text set this way is said to be "justified".
