More pertinently, say analysts, the rhetoric of being under siege is used to explain and justify its straitened circumstances.
Your editorial goes on to explain and justify your action because of the "very particular circumstances" of the case.
In Tunisia and Egypt, the fear of Islamists taking power was long used to explain and justify American support for secret-police regimes.
By contrast, looking to explain and justify action by means of backstory — that is, in terms of a person's private life — is a liberal thing to do.
Significantly if their recommendations are rejected the Committee would have to contact the minister concerned to explain and justify their decision.
But the audience quickly turned its questions to Iraq, one day after President Bush began a new effort to explain and justify his policies there, in the face of continued turmoil in the region and doubts at home.
Last March, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, delivered an address at Northwestern University in which he sought to explain and justify the Awlaki killing, without ever naming the victim, apparently because such honesty would violate the Administration's classification rules.
It might seem as if Blanco has a lot of grievances, but it comes across as the understandable frustration of someone who has constantly been asked to explain, and justify, who he is.
How could he reverse a trend begun by Clement Attlee and followed by every prime minister since, to explain and justify all the controversies of their time, and occasionally enlighten their readers?
