He says the economy is accelerating, but there is little to justify the huge rally in the stock markets.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Burma's military rulers cite ongoing fighting with ethnic insurgent groups in the country to partly justify their continued grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

One 2004 inquiry into the intelligence used to justify the war cleared government ministers of wrongdoing, but criticized the intelligence used.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Even so, overall economic conditions do not justify that fear, according to Charles Bobrinskoy of Chicago-based Ariel Investments.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

He says such an attempt would lead to "so much bloodshed that no one could justify."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

But the president stresses that even the Pentagon will have to justify every dollar spent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

He notes that the makeup of the commission suggests it is more concerned with politics and using history and various historic facts to justify its own existence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev referred to the conflict during Thursday's signing ceremony, saying it happened too recently to justify NATO exercises in Georgia scheduled to begin May 6.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

were killed in the conflict. Britain's involvement in the war was deeply unpopular at home and there were allegations the government had distorted intelligence to justify the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"How would we justify an essentially agrarian country importing most of the food that it eats and then using our lands to produce something else that we don't eat?

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Now with widespread allegations of vote-rigging, the British government is having to justify why British service personnel are dying for what appears to be a far from democratic election.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The latest audio recording, attributed to Bin Laden, again attempts to justify al-Qaeda's September 11,2001, terror attack on the United States as being part of the group's quest for the liberation of Palestine.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

He said he feared that unless serious resources were spent over the next two months developing specific projects and numbers to justify the mitigation requests, the continent would leave the Copenhagen summit largely empty handed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Since its inception in 1990, TV Marti has been the subject of controversy over cost, contracting,internal management and journalistic issues, and the inability of the Miami-based station to reach enough of the population in Cuba to justify the $500 million spent on the operation so far.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18