WASHINGTON — Facing faltering support in foreign capitals and Congress for a strike against Syria, the Obama administration on Friday made an aggressive and coordinated push to justify a military intervention on the grounds that American credibility was at stake.
History certainly tells us that the Bush-Cheney administration would be capable of seeking to cite fabricated evidence in a push to justify military action against a targeted country.
Although Stewart is used to audiences that virtually all agree with his stance on Iraq, now when he talked about George Bush's renewed push to justify the war, he couldn't help but notice that those in the front rows of this audience were not laughing and applauding like those "in the less expensive seats.
A result has been that the humanities, once the centerpiece of the college experience, have been increasingly pushed to justify their existence.
But the legislators, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Representative Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, were skeptical, saying that they would continue their effort to push universities to justify their tax exemptions by spending more of their endowment money.
But Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Representative Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, who convened a round-table discussion on the subject, indicated that they would continue their effort to push universities to justify their tax exemptions by spending more of their endowment money.
More companies are expensing the costs of stock options, and regulators are pushing companies to justify special charges.
Mr. Menchini underwent a major grilling at a City Council hearing earlier this month, where members pushed him to justify spending roughly $50 million to build the system over two years when libraries, health care programs and schools face large cuts.
However, much like Google's IPO made it the Internet stock bellwether, Facebook will become the de facto stock pick of individual and institutional investors, pushing demand to justify the lofty price-to-earnings and price-to-sales multiples.
The Budget Committee pushed us hard to justify our numbers--more than once--and our new director, Susan Lindquist, was passionate in her support of postdocs and their importance to the scientific endeavor.
Maybe it was when Rick Santorum pushed the front-runner to justify an attack ad financed by his "super PAC" and Romney gazed at Santorum the way a C.E.O.
