The days of ex post facto price justification are over.
Many of the allegations, if not capable of justification, are highly defamatory".
The corruption is so blatant, so indefensible, that attempts at justification are necessarily surreal".
Sherwin Belkin, another Manhattan lawyer who represents landlords, said that tenants who break their leases without legal justification are taking a considerable risk.
Our concepts of art and virtue, purpose and justification are so tied up with the supernatural that it is hard to foresee doing altogether without it.
The two tasks of description and justification are not inconsistent, and indeed they are often closely connected in the writings of contemporary philosophers.
So what special justification are you offering here?" Justice Stephen Breyer also questioned whether such a ruling against the agency fees would also require overruling a number of related cases that paved the way for mandatory fees for students at public universities and lawyers at bar associations.
Inference, said Toulmin, is not timeless, universal, "field-invariant", but has to be done quite differently depending on the data – different types of justification are demanded in the different areas of geometry, natural science, sociology, law, ethics or whatever, and expected from the popular press, in conversation, or from an expert.
Famously, in upholding a case against the Daily Telegraph in 2011, the then PCC director, Stephen Abell (now managing editor of the Sun), noted: "The commission has consistently ruled that 'fishing expeditions' where newspapers employ subterfuge and use clandestine devices without sufficient justification are unacceptable".
Yet its readiness to hand remains uncanny... Writer describes a similar feeling, one recent night in Florence, and of a lightning storm that somehow allayed his fears... Our concepts of art and virtue, purpose and justification are so tied up with the supernatural that it is hard to foresee doing altogether without it.
