The phrase "a justification for continuing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing reasons or explanations for persisting in a particular action, project, or situation.
Example: "The recent data provided a strong justification for continuing the research despite the challenges faced."
Alternatives: "a reason to persist" or "an explanation for ongoing".
But a single campaign – no matter how worthy – is not itself a justification for continuing to publish the People.
Except in Eritrea, relatively few women talked of girls' marriage prospects as a justification for continuing to cut them.
But some government officials, civilian and military, have cited the conflict in Colombia as a justification for continuing the oil payment.
When someone like O'Reilly screams "tradition" as a justification for continuing a societal action, it's usually a death knell for progress, a death knell for innovation and often, a death knell for critical thought.
The Navy Seal operation that killed him on May 2 at a hideout in neighborning Pakistan has, in the view of some Washington lawmakers and other officials, undermined a justification for continued American prosecution of the war, now in its 10th year.
However, given the severity of the symptoms generally associated with a gastric ulcer, there no longer appears to be a clear justification for continuing to conduct placebo-controlled trials in these patients.
This doesn't mean they have a moral justification for continuing to produce fuels they know are changing the climate, but morals and markets aren't necessarily natural bedfellows.
Many participants used stress as a strong justification for continuing to smoke.
Drug treatments may be approved based on this marked early benefit, but there may be a poorer justification for continuing use when decreasing benefits are weighed against adverse effects and costs of treatment.
The Scottish government said any increase in students from the rest of the UK would put university places for Scottish students at risk, so it has an "objective justification" for continuing to charge English students after independence.
Prof Downes said he was not calling on the government to publish its own legal guidance but would like more details of the arguments they would use to provide an "objective justification" for continuing with the current arrangements on fees.
