He obviously relished the role, telling the press: "I have given you plenty to write about!" He justified himself (while still president) by declaring: "In a normal country, if a president of the republic did what I do, they would put him away at once.
He has been making precisely the same kind of speeches that I made up to the month of March last, with this difference: that while he has justified the shedding of human blood in a revolution, I have always said that nothing would bring me to the point of claiming that we should destroy human life in the course of our woman's agitation.
While he never justifies what the man tried to do to him, he says he understands him.
Eileen is a beautiful woman, with an innate sensuousness that she keeps under careful guard while she justifies her existence to herself through tireless work as a nurse, and the equally relentless pursuit of a better life for her family.
Odd then that those very engineers, entrepreneurs and technologists almost unanimously oppose his policy, while he — literally seconds earlier — justified that policy via the world of lawyers, bureaucrats and politicians.
Bankers are effectively saying that, while they justify their high pay with claims of superior creativity, credibility and connectivity, all of that cannot compete with a tax on each transaction of just one tenth of one per cent.
For a short while, you can justify this by saying that the 'positive association' is worth something from a branding perspective, and perhaps you'd be right.
This footnote was appended on 26 January 2016 to clarify the fact that as well as supporting Hamdeen Sabahi in the 2012 presidential election, Alaa al-Aswany also later supported him against Abdel Fatah Sisi; and that while Aswany justified the clearance of pro-Morsi camps, he also told the Guardian in 2013: "I cannot defend killing".
Howard Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a leading supporter of Israel, stated that while he had "no trouble justifying the war that Israel has undertaken," he was "deeply troubled by the suffering, destruction and loss of innocent life that it inevitably entails".
While originally justified on the grounds of finding "ticking bombs," the use of such methods of torture became routine.
