justifications

Soon-Shiong also has said the decision was not based on U.S. justifications of the war in Gaza, as his daughter claimed last week in a statement to the New York Times.

Sinwar could unilaterally declare a cease-fire, release all the remaining Israeli hostages and deny Israel one of its core justifications for the war.

Your second chapter chips away at one of the major justifications sheriffs rely on, the fact that they are generally elected officials.

Men exist as leaders, even as they cough up self-serving justifications about "serving God" to explain why they get the plum gigs.

Yoo first came to prominence on the national stage two decades ago, in 2002, when he authored a series of infamous memos providing legal justifications for the Bush administration’s post-9/11 use of torture.