Basically, Jeff Beck is the man who justified overkill.
(I was one of those who justified Snowden's leaks partly on these grounds).
And it has made Makiya and the others who justified the invasion look reckless and naïve.
Another no vote belonged to Representative David McKinley, a freshman who justified his vote to his constituents in explicit terms.
This was most true of conservatives who justified the received authority of church, prince, law or nature.
It is encouraging to see the Obama team moving toward some accountability for the Bush administration lawyers who justified torture.
Spinoza, reacting against the ideological wars of religion and skeptical of both metaphysics and religious dogma, was a scientific humanist who justified political power solely by its usefulness.
It was much more straightforward for Armitstead, who justified favouritism for the women's road race with what she called a "textbook" victory.
"It needed major landscaping," said Ms. Kaptur, a former city planner who justified the federal money because the spur, the Greenbelt Parkway, connects to a federal highway.
Jermaine Jenas, who justified his surprise inclusion with a polished performance, fired a wonderful volleyed pass to Rafael van der Vaart on the left.
Joschka Fischer, once an anarchist firebrand, was a widely admired German foreign minister from 1998 to 2005, who justified his country's first participation in military action since World War II by backing NATO's campaign in Kosovo in 1999.
