The phrase "justify in terms of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to explain or give reasons for something using specific terms or criteria. Example: "In order to fully understand the impact of this decision, we need to justify it in terms of our company's long-term goals and values."
The Large Hadron Collider can be hard to justify in terms of expense – but, although it may not be needed for our survival, it is something that makes us human and important.
His calm assurance that most of the world and much of his nation is wrong comes from an apparent certainty that is hard to justify in terms of geopolitical calculus.
You say, 'I have to make this assumption about what's going on, which I can't fully justify in terms of the micro foundations, but I'll make it anyway, because it seems to fit what happens.' " To some extent, this difference also maps onto the divide between the "freshwater" and "saltwater" schools of thought in macroeconomics.
It is hard to justify in terms of patient safety or convenience and there are far greater immediate threats to patient safety than the lack of a full weekend service, including financial pressures on trusts – leading to unsafe nurse staffing levels – and the pressure on hospital beds created by cuts to social care.
They would place a limit on immigration from outside the European Union, a misguided idea that Mr Cameron has at least taken care to justify in terms of demographic change rather than race.There are still gaps, such as his failure to say definitively whether he opposes the expansion of Heathrow airport part of a general tension between his claim to champion both environmentalism and business.
The difficulty for professors is that Mr. Clinton's most recent misdeedsthe giddy exercises in plunder, the whiff of simony, of an apparent buying and selling of presidential absolutionare difficult to justify in terms of purely American precedents.
Everything is justified in terms of fighting the global war on terror".
Increasingly, business travel will need to be justified in terms of its effect on the bottom line.
However, I am a bit confused by your statement that "death duties can also be justified in terms of fairness".
"But I argue that there are circumstances where it is justified in terms of an overview of public value".
Belligerent or plain aggressive behavior is justified in terms of 'informality' or conceptions of what 'good thinking' requires.
