increasing justification

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Chip insists that he and Steve are best friends forever, forcing an intimacy that Steve (at first snobbishly, then with increasing justification) powerfully resents.

This number has trebled over the past decade both as a result of expanded work in conflict areas and the increased justification that aid workers are "agents of the west" and as such are legitimate targets.

But the threat of terrorism, and the increased feeling of personal vulnerability, offers law enforcement increased opportunities for aggressive invasions of privacy, and increased justification for judicial toleration of these tactics, if not approval.

While past research has identified that increased justification is associated with increased risk of IPV [ 30], contextualizing the influence of abuse felt or witnessed during childhood further illuminates the influence of experienced violence on perceptions of acceptability.

Perhaps Washington has justification for increasing tariffs in this particular case, but in general it sets a bad precedent.

Thousands of Chinese-flagged merchant ships now cross the ocean each year, giving China plenty of justification for increasing its naval presence.

"There is no economic or moral justification for increasing them further".

It was common for the government security forces to demand more powers, including powers of arbitrary arrest and the confiscation of property, all under the justification of increasing security problems.

The 407 ETR is contractually responsible for maintaining high traffic levels as justification for increasing tolls, but conduct their own traffic studies.

Russia's military takeover of Crimea is an unacceptable violation of international law, but it provides no justification for increasing the Pentagon's already bloated budget, as many observers have been asserting in recent weeks.

However, at least two randomised trials found no benefit for chemotherapy triplets over doublets (Pirker, 2002) and, as toxicity is likely to be high, there is no justification for increasing the number of chemotherapy drugs in a treatment regimen beyond two unless the benefit : risk ratio has been demonstrated to be favourable.