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justification Noun

— A justification is a reason given by somebody for doing something. There was no justification for continuing this war. Practice in logical thinking is frequently used as justification for teaching Latin. — In printing, justification is the spacing of words and letters so that the margins on the left and right are even.

justification

— noun something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary he considered misrule a justification for revolution — noun a statement in explanation of some action or belief — noun the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning the justification of barbarous means by holy ends — H.J.Muller

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excuse explanation reason vindication defence pretext defense argument warrant plea apology alignment rationale motivation righteousness reasoning rationalization proof pretense merit justify ground foundation fairness exculpation demonstration adjustment veto unseat tusk transposition translocation theology support slide shifting shift rightfulness replacement registration register reconciliation rationalisation proving proscription prohibition positioning moral duty licensing legality

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Simple sentences

Their pseudo-scientific rhetoric serves as justification for America's imperialist foreign policy.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Movie subtitles

What justification could I possibly have for such a feeling?

Justification is not an issue here.

In a military court, Mr. Reid, there is no justification for disobedience, insubordination or treason.

No, sir, but he'll prove justification.

And I'll bring up all the justification there is.

Colonel, what do you think the chances are. of our getting one justification witness into this trial?

Perfect justification.

The prosecution moves that Mrs. Lansdowne's testimony. be stricken from the record as irrelevant. and as a violation of the court's previous ruling on justification witnesses.

Moreover, I request the court to reconsider. its prior ruling about justification witnesses. and allow the defense to call the witnesses whom it has previously requested.

And to give him a fair trial, we have to listen to every bit of evidence. whether or not it's technically called a justification.

No, I don't think, even if what you say is true, I still don't think it can be said. to be enough justification.

I said you shouldn't go around wild, blaming people without justification.

Not justification, huh?

There can never be a justification for them.

He's looking for a justification for why I'm leaving him.

There must be an explanation, a justification.

There is no justification for someone that disobeys trying to abuse a poor woman.

I still don't think it can be said. to be enough justification.

On the other hand, neither can we find justification for indiscriminate gunplay in the squad rooms.

You've got to leave me some justification for what I did.

Well, the only justification you could have for doing it is finding what you're looking for.

Not justification.

And there is no justification?

That will be a good justification.

With more justification.

I only did what many other men with less justification have done to her already.

And as for the justification the Yashioka's teachers and students are using here wouldn't that rather make you the laughingstock of the world?

The truth is no justification for a libelous article printed without cause.

I know your nasty opinions have no justification whatever so there's no reason for me to lose my cool.

Don't push me back into my usual position of self-justification.

On the other hand, neither can we find justification. for indiscriminate gunplay in the squad rooms.

They've been my life, my justification, my joy and my grief.

Seeing what those guys tried to do to you. I'd say that you had considerable justification.

There'd have been a justification for the fire and the music. and the whisky I'll offer you.

What justification?

Are you sure that your not looking for a justification?

But already, there's another object that carries the justification of the system. ant the requirement of being recognized.

I am glad to still be alive to hear your justification for this.

That would be the only possible justification.

News and current affairs

Next, no government in the region loves Saddam, but all fear popular reaction to a third Western onslaught on an Islamic state, this time with much less clear justification than over Kuwait and in Afghanistan.

Where coercion exists, rights are violated, and these violations must be condemned whatever the traditional justification.

Whether or not this historical justification for Israel's creation is convincing, the important fact is that the Palestinian Arabs and their allies do not buy it.

They see lingering post-financial-crisis unemployment as a compelling justification for much more aggressive fiscal expansion, even in countries already running massive deficits, such as the US and the United Kingdom.

But was his justification persuasive?

Bin Laden's eradication may strip some dictators, from Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi to Yemen's Ali Abdallah Saleh, of the main justification they have used for their decades of repression.

These differences reflect the intellectual richness of neo-classical economics, but they provide no justification for the claim that there is one economics.

One common justification for legalization or decriminalization of cannabis centers around the idea that it does not involve a victim.

Nor is the global financial crisis a justification for the world's leaders failing to keep their word.

Justification, if it exists, rests on the danger Saddam's regime posed.

The fact that a catastrophe is unlikely to occur is not a rational justification for ignoring the risk of its occurrence.

Apparently, he believes that the chance of killing an important terrorist leader is sufficient justification for firing a missile that will almost certainly kill innocent human beings.

Bush, however, cannot rely on that argument, for it is precisely the kind of justification that he rejects when it comes to destroying embryos in order to save, in the long run, those dying from diseases for which we currently have no cure.

One oft-heard justification for high asset prices is that real (inflation-adjusted) long-term interest rates are very low.

How can someone with less legitimacy than Arafat escape this justification of violence?

Most damaging of all, a purely strategic justification for military action - in defense of core US interests - leaves no room to do what actually needs to be done in Syria.

To those in the other Arab countries of the Middle East and elsewhere who oppose the war, the impact is to make human rights seem a justification, or a pretext, for a projection of American power.

Crimea was annexed on the spurious grounds that it had once been part of Russia - a justification that, if applied elsewhere, could underwrite the violent redrawing of boundaries in much of Europe.

Indeed, the fragility of the global economic recovery is often cited as a justification to delay such action.

The third vision is essentially no vision at all, but a justification of the Brussels bureaucracy as it currently exists.

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