" You are forcing me, Potter...I do not want to, " said Umbridge, still moving restlessly on the spot, " but sometimes circumstances justify the use..."
To say that we live in a secular age is to say that, not that there aren't a lot of people who have religious belief, there are, but it's to say that their religious belief doesn't justify that conclusion.
Casaubon hated him — he knew that very well; on his first entrance he could discern a bitterness in the mouth and a venom in the glance which would almost justify declaring war in spite of past benefits.
Though some fraudsters are, as Mr Block points out, sociopaths who don't feel the need to justify themselves to anyone, fraud is likelier to occur if ceos feel they can justify it to themselves.
When the men whom you have repulsed justify the repulsion, your esteem and regard will be all the more sought after; you have inspired the tacit respect which raises a man among his peers.
If they thought highly of themselves, why, the fact justified them; if they spoke, at times, as Pharisees, it was a fault of temper which carried with it no grave condemnation.
Studies that are produced for marketing campaigns, or in order to justify public policies more often than not, do not have the slightest scientific value.
The Trump administration has likened the alien gangs present in the United States to a foreign invasion or predatory incursion that justifies the law's use.