More than anything, Nationalism counts on a common tongue in order to justify itself.

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In Britain, the government need not justify itself at all.

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The prospect of hearing the Argentinian's comments on the lecture by the German with whom I had corresponded, but whom I did not know personally, was enough in itself to justify the price of the air fare to Buenos Aires (paid for on credit).

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Carnival has to resist the temptation to explain, minimize, or justify what happened and position itself instead as part of the solution to the problems that caused the disaster.

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If you exchange the words Egyptian-cotton industry with European Aerospace-lobbying industry in Heller's passage above, you would have a good summation of how EADS has been trying to justify its activities and market itself to the American public.

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It does not justify a patent regime which hampers biotechnology itself.

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Mr. MICHAEL HADDAD (Attorney): Most people are not going to justify that type of force, and virtually no crowd will justify that kind of force against the crowd itself.

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To justify its stock price, Akamai must position itself to triple revenue per customer figures for media and e-commerce (online shopping) verticals by the end of our forecast period.

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So while the HPV vaccine by itself is probably far too expensive to justify, if it's coupled with a larger agenda, laying the groundwork for decreasing maternal mortality and improving child health by reaching these girls before they become mothers, then perhaps we have a real breakthrough.

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It has given itself no flexibility to cope with occasions when economic weakness might justify a lower level of interest rates than is compatible with meeting the inflation target.

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As the largest government agency, the Pentagon found itself a frequent target of his whip, especially as it struggled to justify its missions in the aftermath of the Cold War.

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This decision to target customers that were focused on long-term results enabled Baupost to distinguish itself from private equity firms that would sell winning investments quickly in order to justify the high short-term performance they needed to raise more capital from investors.

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