He found reasons to justify his actions.

What can you possibly find to justify Hitler?

There are valid arguments to made for either course.

The need to respect other cultures has been cited as justification for this semantic shift.

There's no audience like this to justify their rehearsal time.

To understand and protect the home planet, to justify my talks.

This last argument can be used to justify any policy.

No considerations whatsoever can be invoked to justify terrorist acts.

There have always been attempts in Latin America to justify the use of force.

No additional new information was provided in order to justify the proposal.

The Special Rapporteur notes with interest that the arguments often adduced to justify these unions are the same as those used to justify female genital mutilation, namely family honour and the preservation of family and community values.

That is the oldest excuse to justify wrongdoing the end justifies the means.

Consequently, the nationalizations cannot be used to justify the embargo against Cuba.

The lack of institutional facilities cannot in this case be accepted as a basis for justifying the delay .

The justification for this practice is quot security requirements quot .

New concepts have been used to justify discriminatory acts with repercussions for the countries of the South.

Almost no additional information has been provided to justify the numbers and levels of staff requested.

So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

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

But it must never be used to justify aggression against others.

The escalating crisis of legitimacy forced the government to invent imaginative ways to justify its power.

Bush and his officials used three main arguments to justify invading Iraq.

There can be no attempt to justify or excuse the use of terrorism.

The CSCE was not going around looking out for new tasks to justify its post conflict existence.

The question is what must the cutters and slashers believe to justify their policies?

Now the Fukushima tragedy is being used to justify continuing these economically dubious programs.

But this has not stopped him from using history to justify his policies.

For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym.

States shall not invoke derogation clauses to justify taking hostages or to impose collective punishments.

Evidence used to justify the arrest of a person must meet all international standards.

Upon request, the Advisory Committee was provided with workload statistics to support the creation of the Board of Inquiry.

The government uses the threat of terrorist attacks to justify domestic repression of political opponents and the absence of democratic reforms.

Enhance cooperation and coordination among relevant domestic agencies.

We cannot relieve our conscience by fabricating realpolitik excuses for our inaction and silence.

The report uses these allegations as a pretext to justify the Special Commission in taking an interventionist approach in its work.

Instead, loopholes and pretexts have often been used to justify action contrary to the spirit of the Charter.

That may be so, but nothing happened to justify this kind of a war party.

Americans also are more aware of how such attacks are used to justify abuses of their own rights.

Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another.

Uganda seems to be seeking a new pretext to justify its negative and harmful interference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Table 3 Comparative analysis of rates of implementation of recommendations of the Board of Auditors for the bienniums 2000 2001 and 2002 2003

The Security Council rejects any attempt to justify, on whatever ground, the imposition of tolls on the Danube.

The arguments put forward by the sponsors of the draft resolution for refusing to make reference to resolution 425 (1978) are not convincing.

Where terrorists cite Quranic verses to justify their atrocities.

And it was quite wonderful, because I had an interest an early interest in theater, that's justified on this thing.