Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable.
All CG does is cost you a valuable card and put a few conditions on the opponent that are either easy to justify or that can be ignored, especially as a game goes on.
As a result, recent products like the sleek iPod nano and the bantam Palm z22 are small enough to fit in your pocket with your mobile phone (or justify their small existence in a second pocket or purse).
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But they never asked him to explain, affirm, defend or justify his testimony about that same topic in the Jones deposition.
They excuse themselves, justify their words or actions, explaining what they've said, or what they've done with varying degrees of passion and conviction.
Each story was pushed to the edge, and the fact-checkers, legions of them, were made to justify the claims or get them taken out.
Paradoxically, when the consideration phase and decision phase were too far apart, they tended to ignore or justify red flags they identified at the beginning.
These would-be customers may not have enough money, living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse, to justify opening a bank account, or they might not trust the financial industry.
Most of us are not interested in what mad thoughts drove Madoff to steal or justify the theft, but what could have been done to prevent it.
Unlike in the Enron (otc: ENRNQ - news - people ) affair, there was no effort to justify the practice or give it some business rationale.
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.
No need to assemble a constant stream of content to justify a subscription or attract advertisers: just put it on the Web and take digital pennies for your thoughts.
Because she says sometimes in her experience the Russians have taken language, even non-binding preamble language like in the START treaty, and used it to justify an argument or a point of view.
By contrast, on August 5, the Prime Minister announced that he was "absolutely and completely committed" to ensuring that those foreign clerics and others who come to Britain and condone, glorify or justify terrorism are deported.
Because stock ownership, even by large institutional investors, is so widely dispersed, the potential return an investor can get by being an activist shareholder is too low to justify spending his or her time and money on efforts to hold down unnecessary pay and spending.
How does the Bush Administration plan to justify any direct or contingent U.S. taxpayer risk exposure to the USSR when Moscow is currently in a severe payments crisis to Western suppliers, has not embarked on serious economic reform and refuses to disclose fundamental economic and financial data?
El-Gharani's lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court, demanding the government justify its continued detention or release him.
Now you're tacitly expected to perform like a new hire, proving yourself all over again to justify your new salary or position.
Some literary anniversaries are easy to pair with the appropriate booze: Any literate drinker can justify an Irish whisky or a pint of Guinness on Bloomsday.
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Divergences are never enough by themselves to justify pressing a buy or sell button, but taken with other indicators, they can be valuable for timing certain types of trades.
Some large institutional shareholders, such as the U.S. pension fund managers Calpers and TIAA-CREF together with Hermes of London, are asking companies to justify their pay policies or risk censure.
But it would not elicit enough interest from buyers or sellers to justify listing on an exchange.
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Something to justify the expenditure on this or that and hopefully guide the ship away from the rocks.
How will Schulze justify to Best Buy management or shareholders a reported 30%-plus price cut on the offer?
And existing drugs at acquired companies sometimes expand enough to justify hefty premiums paid, or at least come close.
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As it happens, the Times story conveyed little or nothing to justify the idea of tumult within the GOP ranks.
It used to be that people would invoke libel or defamation to justify censorship about things that hurt their reputations.
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But the number of alleged forgeries is far too small to justify such a raid, or to invalidate the process.
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Second earners in a household may also not find work at a high enough wage to justify the costs of commuting or child care.
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