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Example sentences for: justify

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In Sunday's column, Maureen Dowd pointed out that when Ken Starr was pressed recently to justify the $30 million he's spent so far javerting Bill Clinton, Starr replied that hey, he always flies coach on his investigatory jaunts to Little Rock.
How to justify the eradication of a weak and numerically insignificant group?
The most damaging claim: HMOs hire ethicists who then justify the HMOs' decisions to deny expensive treatment.
In order to justify today's stratospheric share prices, profits and productivity must grow at improbably high rates for an impossibly long time.
This statement harks back to a famous 1958 essay by the literary critic George Steiner, who asked "whether the German language had survived the Hitler era, whether words poisoned by Goebbels and used to regulate and justify Belsen could ever again serve the needs of moral truth and poetic perception."