So while some were quick to say that Mr. Paterson had to answer only to his wife, others found that justification hard to square with the overwhelming, visceral call for Mr. Spitzer's ouster only days before.
This simple reality is precisely what makes the venture business hard, and the justification for why partners make such huge fees.
After the war, it is very hard to see the justification for the expensive, intrusive and oppressive surveillance that was undertaken.
"This was a chaotic situation and we don't know what happened earlier in the sequence," Mr. Dunn said, "but it's hard to imagine a justification for the roundhouse swing shown on the tape".
In any case, since we allow parties to advertise freely on billboards - hardly a medium conducive to nuanced political discussion - it is hard to see the justification for banning advertising on television or radio.
Sisi's actions now make that justification a hard pill to swallow.
While some factors like high capacity magazines or clips may contribute to a small percentage of gun violence, it hard to see a justification for their existence in a non-military setting at all, no matter how small their influence.
For a local theatre production, of course, that justification is harder to sympathise with.
It is harder still to find justification for business-process patents.What is clear is that the "non-obviousness" part of the test for patentability has not been applied anywhere near rigorously enough to internet and business-process patents.
Here, it is hard to identify any justifications assuming that collective bargaining has ended.
