But there is no public justification for effectively lowering the cost of home ownership via the tax code.
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"The fact that they are making this public provides justification for the actions they took, " said Cilluffo, now director of a homeland security studies program at George Washington University.
Some would say that there is a public-interest justification in the exposure of law-breaking of any kind by a public figure, which Mr Dallaglio certainly is.
Publishing it could have either "gone a long way to alleviating" concerns and reassuring the public or "demonstrated the justification for the concerns" to better inform public debate.
Sports stadiums are a perfect example of the slippery justification for public funds.
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Our justification for receiving public money is that we're out there doing things that you couldn't just do on a commercial basis.
Pennington here is engaging in a nice spot of public reasoning, voicing a partial justification for exit-based institutions.
Mr Blair's justification for sharp increases in public spending is simple.
The public-health profession has been looking for a justification for its existence ever since the communicable diseases that it was established to fight were all but wiped out.
There is rational performance-related justification for this increase but the Court of Public Opinion may still adjudge the upward trend as a defiance of marketplace preference and ongoing scrutiny of executive pay.
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But it quickly became a mantra that the unsuspecting public applied equally to every aspect of life, using it as a justification for unexceptional, and even careless, behavior.
With public concerns about national security fading, global economic competition is being pressed into service as an alternative justification for basic research.
Over the weekend, we were treated to a smorgasbord of self-justification from Herman Cain and Jerry Sandusky, who, as they spiral downward and hopefully out of the public eye, seem unable to just shut up.
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