"Is it possible to justify each and every measure on security grounds?
So, it's possible to justify a few of those too-long and apparently unproductive meetings by finding hidden payoffs.
The answer in numerical terms lies somewhere in between the two approaches, and it is possible to justify any measure between 15% and 50% or thereabouts.
But even he may find himself struggling to answer one conundrum thrown up by his newly released expenses claims: how is it possible to justify spending £638.73 on a taxi?
It was possible to justify it as a method for electing the Commons in the 1940s, 1950s and possibly the 1960s, when politics was essentially a two-horse race between the blues and the reds.
So perhaps in a poor community a new water system has been installed and someone feels it is possible to justify on national security grounds that all details in relation to that contract are classified.
Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
One thing is certain: Once the hostage-takings occurred, the government task forces acting under Putin's direct supervision did everything to ensure that the crises ended as horrifyingly as possible — to justify continued warfare in Chechnya and further crackdowns on the media and the opposition in Russia and, finally, to quell any possible criticism from the West".
But at a time of great social inequality, when many 20-somethings or young families are struggling to live anywhere near where they grew up and today's workers doubt that they will ever be able to afford to retire, I believe it is no longer possible to justify giving pensioners on middle incomes a tax privilege that the working young do not enjoy.
"Exploration is the lifeblood of the mining industry, but it is not possible to justify Xstrata Copper's ongoing funding of additional exploration activities when the fundamental economics of the industry in Australia are being challenged," Steven de Kruijff, chief operating officer for the Queensland unit, said in a statement.
