justification

Example Sentences

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Viewers were invited to submit a proposed scientific name along with a justification.

From Science Daily

The justifications for allowing Townsend remaining in place for another Six Nations and a World Cup after that have become pitifully small.

From BBC

If he pushes for cuts without a clear economic justification, he may find his colleagues on the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee skeptical that his conversion to inflation dove is genuine.

From The Wall Street Journal

Last week, Panama's Supreme Court ruled that the concession was "unconstitutional" and found it had "a disproportionate bias in favor of the company" without "any justification" and to the "detriment of the State's treasury."

From Barron's

Snooker clubs were enjoying a boom, but they often remained places of ill repute, and Virgo recognised there was historical justification for that.

From BBC