justification

Example Sentences

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These advantages are most appealing when China lacks a strong justification for claiming its actions are lawful countermeasures, as with its continuing campaign against Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal

Experts say there is no justification for screening the large majority of men for prostate cancer.

From BBC

He submits that American justifications of slavery rested on ideas that were in place long before slavery’s expansion in 19th-century America—before the American Founding or even the establishment of the English Atlantic world.

From The Wall Street Journal

National security, however, provides the broadest justification for withholding information, with the law giving the attorney general the power to judge whether certain information poses a threat to national security.

From Salon

Novartis didn’t test the treatment in adults, but the FDA said that the company had “provided adequate justification to support expanding the indication” to include adult patients.

From Barron's