His justification for the merger was just hot air.

他提出的合并理由只是连篇空话。

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According to Kerber, motherhood became pivotal to the fate of the republic, providing justification for an unprecedented attention to female education.

根据 Kerber 的说法，母性成为了共和国命运的关键，这为前所未有的女性教育关注提供了辩护。

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The most plausible justification for higher taxes on automobile fuel is that fuel consumption harms the environment and thus adds to the costs of traffic congestion.

提高汽车燃油税最合理的理由是，燃料消耗会损害环境，从而增加交通拥堵的成本。

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The aide,Eric Joyce, said he did not believe the public would continue to accept fighting terrorism as justification for British soldiers dying in Afghanistan.

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And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

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He was responsible for writing the first justification for an armed rebellion against a legitimate monarch, the first to publish such a work in, essentially, all of Europe.

他是第一个为反对合法君主的武装叛乱,写辩护书的人，也是第一个在全欧洲将其发表的人。

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Money that the federal government has collected and has no legal justification for withholding.

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In equities, we think investors have valuations and fundamental justification for being overweight Russia equities.

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He said it was not a justification for putting Mrs Richards onto palliative, end-of-life care.

BBC: Gladys Richards