Still, the latest judicial document in the ongoing battle, a 337-page justification of the most recent convictions made public on Tuesday, marks a new low.
In the end, The Sun seemed hesitant, almost apologetic — a far cry from the rambunctious Sun of old — in the lengthy, front-page justification offered for defying the palace.
This week the militants published a seven-page justification for their violence against Ms. Yousafzai — "Malala used to speak openly against Islamic system and give interviews in favor of Western education, while wearing a lot of makeup," it read — and threatened to kill journalists who criticized its tactics.
Many have found within its pages justifications for slavery, abuse of African-Americans and segregation.
A resolution approved unanimously by the Cave Creek Town Council on Monday night listed three pages' worth of justification for the town's claim.
This section should also include separate budget justification pages for the operation of the Administrative Coordination Center not to exceed 100,000 direct costs in any year.
His novel "By Night in Chile" is a 130-page rant -- part confession, part justification, part delirium -- by a dying man, representative of an intellectual class that the author depicts as alternately tugging its leash and licking it.
Present-day photocomposition machines use computers to make end-of-line (hyphenation and justification) and page design decisions automatically, thereby producing copy faster and cheaper than units that require operators to make end-of-line decisions.
Everything else is up for grabs.Depending on a reader's hardware or software, he may change the typeface or its size, the margins of a page, a paragraph's justification (ragged at the edge of the right column or fully square against it) and other elements.
But shouldn't career moves need pages of theory for justification, too?
His account has a ring of honesty because, despite the pages of self-justification, he admits to several errors of judgment.
