"Because quite often the arguments that a defense deal is essential on national security grounds then that becomes justification for shielding it from public scrutiny."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

In language both lawyerly and graphic, the attorneys gave legal justification to slap,strip,and shackle detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"While accepting the fact that Major Nidal Malik Hasan practiced the Islamic faith, we offer no justification for his ungodly and heinous, cowardly act of violence,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

I am not saying 100 percent that they are going to release her immediately, but there may be (some) sort of justification for her release by the high court."

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

With the British soldier death rate escalating in Helmand province, the public is losing faith in the government and its justification for being in Afghanistan 7.5 years after first being deployed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

"There is no justification for the international forces to rescue their own national, and retrieve the dead body of their own soldier killed in action, and leave behind the dead body of Sultan Munadi in the area."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10