How can we justify doing this?

我们怎么为我们的所作所为辩护？

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Just signing the audit report is certainly not enough participation to justify doing so.

只在审计报告上签字显然达不到要求。

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She wanted to start a family but couldn’t justify doing so in their current financial situation.

她想要个孩子但却不知道在他们当前的财务状况下这么做是否恰当。

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And they're still uncertain about orders -- do they just have enough customers to justify them doing more.

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Often, too, kisha-club members, whose job is to sit and wait for titbits of information and want to justify their doing so, are loth to share stories with colleagues in their head offices.

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That doesn't, in my view, justify what they're doing, but it certainly explains part of their motivation.

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