They are making their leaders explain and justify themselves as never before.
Sure, you may be curious, but what you're actually asking me to do is explain and justify my disability.
Merkel's supporters explain and justify this transformation in two ways – both of which should be treated with scepticism.
More pertinently, say analysts, the rhetoric of being under siege is used to explain and justify its straitened circumstances.
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Others explain and justify their own buildings, but often with high-flown language, or a retreat into metaphor.
Your editorial goes on to explain and justify your action because of the "very particular circumstances" of the case.
In Tunisia and Egypt, the fear of Islamists taking power was long used to explain and justify American support for secret-police regimes.
By contrast, looking to explain and justify action by means of backstory — that is, in terms of a person's private life — is a liberal thing to do.
Significantly if their recommendations are rejected the Committee would have to contact the minister concerned to explain and justify their decision.
But the audience quickly turned its questions to Iraq, one day after President Bush began a new effort to explain and justify his policies there, in the face of continued turmoil in the region and doubts at home.
