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Yet despite the hearer's conventional groan and the perpetrator's equally conventional apology, everyone knows that verbal play gives a great deal of pleasure, justifying the great deal of ingenuity that goes into producing it.
I was unable to find any comment by the author justifying the use and application of the (million-word British) International Corpus of English (ICE-GB).
"Inconsistencies and ambiguities, real or imagined, are to journalists as catnip to the cat," shrugged the New York Daily News , justifying the drug story's persistence.
Reforms focused partly on immigrants, following testimony from the General Accounting Office estimating that slightly more than half of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits provided to elderly persons were collected by noncitizens in 1995 [ 13 14 ] . In justifying PRWORA [ 15 ] , the House Ways and Means Committee stated that it had been a basic tenet of US immigration policy since 1882 that legal immigrants should not be eligible for public benefits.
Since the press itself largely creates the perception with its coverage, justifying the coverage on the basis of the perception is a convenient form of circular reasoning.