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Example sentences for: justify

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If the plan calls for limiting the acquisition to resources compatible with existing equipment, verify that conversion cost studies have been completed to justify compatibility restrictions.
Since the Soviet Union fell apart, the agency has been increasingly desperate to justify its continued existence.
In Pakistan, a military regime sought to justify its seizure of power by a pious public stance and an embrace of unprecedented Islamist influence on education and society.
No doubt Russell would justify the starkness of the mother's killing by saying you can't make a movie about the obscenity of violence without showing something so obscene that it scalds us.
There is a tradition of anti-Semitic caricature featuring Jews with hideous noses, some of which has been used to justify persecution.