The phrase "justification against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used whenever you need to express a rationale or argument for why something should not be done. For example, "The environmental hazards caused by fracking outweigh any economic or energy justification against banning it."
So in the later case the court must decide whether the factual difference (real versus personal property, implied versus express trust) provides a better justification against the earlier decision than the facts of that case on their own.
With his "Responding to Criticism" (Ying jian 應間), a work modeled on Yang Xiong's "Justification Against Ridicule", Zhang was an early writer and proponent of the Chinese literary genre shelun, or hypothetical discourse.
"The crimes of the two young men must not be the justification for prejudice against Muslims and against immigrants.
According to Wedenig the follow up report to the UN Secretary-General's Global Study on Violence against Children recently made public, marks a turning point in the multidimensional response on violence against children and looks at bringing an end to adult justification of violence against children.
B5 AT THE UNITED NATIONS -- The United States offered the Security Council its justification for strikes against the Taliban.
We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement.
The law, "effectively reestablishes that shameful period before civil rights, when some used religious beliefs as a thinly veiled justification for discrimination against our fellow citizens".
For years, Osama bin Laden has pointed to the American presence in the Persian Gulf region as the primary justification for attacks against the West.
There is no justification for terrorism against civilians ever, and it must be combated with all means necessary to protect innocent lives.
Since before the American invasion, Bush administration officials have portrayed Al Qaeda and Ansar as close associates and used the links as part of their justification for war against Saddam Hussein's government.
Word is in from The Wrap that Lars von Trier said that he was questioned by police in Denmark today "regarding a possible violation of prohibition in French law against justification of war crimes".
