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Economists do not know enough about growth, he says, to justify their obsession with it, however important it may be.

Of course, we each probably have a few recurring expenses that are easy to justify due to the pleasure or utility they bring us.

I understand, but that doesn't justify it. I'm still going to have to ask you to leave. We can't.

I think with the economic downturn they're trying to take advantage of us, as a way to cut retirees' benefits and justify it.

ever mindful of her health; mindful of his responsibilities; mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action.

Bill Venners : You kind of touched on this earlier, but could you justify why you think that's the point of good design?

Susie's death seems to justify her abandon of her family, and teach her about the importance of true love and loyalty at the mean time.

That same principle is often used to justify the free international flow of goods and is core to many international trade agreements.

The argument he used to justify his position proved to be a double-edged sword which ultimately led to his own defeat.

For some technologies, the costs and trouble simply don't justify the resources and effort that go into generating a little bit of energy.

From the Palestinian perspective, the scurrying for archaeological evidence to justify a people's sense of belonging misses the point.

Is Akio ducking criticism of being a beneficiary of nepotism by accusing us and trying to justify his ascendancy to the top job?

Both then went on to justify their aggressive deepening of economic ties with China as likely to produce a relaxation within that country.

There is no doubt that it will in future need to be able justify the value of its medicines rather than the simple costs.

This has come to be known among philosophers as "the asymmetry" and it is not easy to justify.

But it is important enough to justify them spending a little time trying to give the reform some momentum.

This technique is often implemented during wartime to convince people of the need for sacrifices or to justify difficult decisions.

Even when he is confronted with witnesses and is therefore bound to admit his guilt, he will still try to justify himself in some other way.

It hadn't of course, this was just a way for people to justify their behaviour without directly facing their self-deception.

But now that you know when you have the most energy and motivation, it can be pretty hard to justify such a squandering of that time.

Dehumanization makes it all too easy to justify abuse, neglect, and violation of human rights.

On top of that, some of these even justify their right to being shameless self-righteously and without any evidence of shame.

And, on the whole, the threat of religious extremism with which strong men used to justify repression has not materialised.

The new President said he would try to justify the trust the electorate had placed in him.

He said to them, 'You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts.

He might have done more, too, to justify his optimism that war between Pakistan and India is now less likely "than ever" .

We did not take up his offer because our workings show that the cash flow and earnings cannot justify the acquisition of the land.

Combined with improving living standards, this narrative has been used to justify a shift away from federalism.

Trying to justify it that way is a bit like the efforts to put a dollar value on liberal-arts education.

Nobody was planning an assault of any kind, nor was anyone powerful enough to pose a threat with enough strength to justify such a fortress.

When you are developing your business plan, make your estimates as exact as possible and justify how much you need for each purchase.

Saying no to more money or recognition is often hard to justify.

In particular, do not use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words.

Just getting in the door for an interview requently requires you to justify why people should bother talking to you.

They must be prepared to justify any exemption and to withhold only the exempt portion of any record while releasing the balance.

these have been used to justify levies on cigarettes , alcohol and even traffic congestion.

Whether or not the event should justify him he would virtually have done her a wrong.

He was not bragging, not showing off. His sole motive was to make her happy, to make her proud of him, to justify her long faith in him.

Eight of these have been examined by the Scientific Committee on Plants, which in all ca ses deemember States did not justify their bans.

S. hopes in that way either to drive Iran to its knees or to provoke an attack by Iran that would justify massive retaliation.

does not justify the overall market drop. The corporate earnings announcements so far do not justify that drop either.

Remember that you are on a diet for you, and that you do not need to justify yourself.

Sounds to me like a coward trying to justify himself .

The criminal attempted to justify his crime by claiming that he had not been responsible for his actions at the time of the arson.

They trying to force you to do a rational calculation to justify the cost.

There's no doubt these past 10 jobs justify the old maxim, "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. "

In drug-ravaged communities, where the ends tend to justify the means, that was enough to turn Mr Thaksin into a hero.

She's concerned that the swine flu vaccine hasn't been studied long enough to justify for her less-at-risk youngsters.

You know deep down inside that such decisions are not rational, but you justify them with the hopes that you might end up finding someone.

Assessing such policies in terms of how much carbon reduction they achieve for each pound spent, these high figures are hard to justify.

Short answer is no. Mere possession of a gun by a suspect is NOT enough to justify deadly force.

Although swine flu seems to be spreading slowly, it is still progressing quickly enough to justify preparing for a pandemic.

The passing of an Extraordinary Resolution shall be conclusive evidence that the circumstances of such resolution justify the passing of it.

Resources are easy to justify when a key bottleneck is found and performance can be improved by a large factor.

He said earnings of A share companies would have to double this year to justify current levels.

But if I then appeal to this affection to justify my action, I find myself drawn into a vicious circle.

The second, that the weapon, in his torpid hand, was no defense at all, but would merely serve to justify his murder.

Fear of legal action alone, he said, "cannot justify an employer's reliance on race" if it hurts qualified individuals.

Linklaters said yesterday it was "not aware of any facts or circumstances which would justify any criticism" of its opinions.

His greatest concern is the way in which the threat of terrorism has been used to justify the encroachment on civil liberties.

So if there's a drug that can slow the fire for a while, even if it's not ultimately doused, does that justify use of the medication?

Since the opposite effects hold for China, I cannot justify the country's policies from the viewpoint of its interests.

Organizations like the National Security Agency justify their budget on their being able to tap into people.

It said the rise in foreign ownership made it harder to justify taxing foreign dividends paid to British companies.

Many of its pronouncements have been used by political advocates to justify their policy prescriptions.

All the birds that belong to our sex have prettier feathers, cause males have got to try to justify their existence.

The instructions must be strictly followed for you to justify any claim made under guarantee .

I'm going to go out on a limb here and give some rules of thumb first, then give some examples to try to justify them.

Apologists for Joseph Stalin used to justify such brutality by arguing that you could not make an omelette without breaking eggs.

The prospects for that application of technology and expertise to China's offshore industry are enough to justify the deal.

Moreover, its market is significantly large to justify it making rulings on mergers of a global nature, just as Brussels and Washington do.

When trying to cost justify a new system, the team developing the justification will be tempted to generate a laundry list of goals.

One way to justify such a valuation might be the chance of a takeover battle.

She hastened to add, however, that it alone did not justify the concentration of U. S. forces and facilities in Okinawa. '

Some people struggle to understand their own guilt , unwilling or unable to justify the part they play in it.

The Fed may be able to justify a more forceful attack on unemployment by tweaking, rather than replacing, its current framework.

But another technology banker who declined to be named said it might be hard for private equity firms to justify such investments.

The boy more than justify the favourable opinion they have forme of him.

No need to justify your shortcomings or wrong actions, simply own up to your mistakes and recognize that you need help in changing them.

The "disputed" scrap of land known as the Shebaa Farms is at most a pretext Hizbullah uses to justify its fighting.

Youmust keep a satisfactory set of records, because you may have to justify firingthe employee if it comes to that.

When you hear the word justify, think of a court room scene where God is seated as the Judge of all mankind.

So far there is little evidence of life on Mars, but this doesn't justify the conclusion that space research has no scientific value.

It's a proud way of trying to justify our actions and pacify our guilty consciences.

If credit cards aren't going to be a strong source of growth, other businesses really need to kick in to justify that multiple.

However, this conclusion does not justify our society's obsession with looks, for appearance is only the first layer of attractiveness.

He oversees a private-sector compensation structure (one he didn't design) that he's trying to justify to the political sector.

Or else just do it to the best of your abilities, your talents, and then don't justify or make excuses.

In any event, fears do not have to be well-reasoned to make a bad situation worse and justify themselves.

By the president's own account, health reform is his proudest achievement, one that would justify his election on its own.

"They just can't see how some of these western companies are able to justify the prices they are paying. "

Slowly but surely, it dawned on men that they did not need God to explain, govern or justify certain areas of life.

It may be in a pool too small or too far from a potential market to justify the expense of drilling.

So Ham must wait until he can justify his deed to the court: otherwise his act would be misunderstood and he might himself be put to death.

you cannot have both greed and peace, the foxhole and God; you cannot justify ignorance and yet hope for enlightenment.

The same analysis showed that an investment in Intrusion Detection did not reduce enough losses to justify its cost.

He dreamt this up to instill fear, an old statist trick to justify government power.

Wildflowers self self-reliant, conscientious and do not drag on, to live is to live life easily justify live.

You might also then be able to justify the high cost of a typical NMS solution.

What was the basis used to justify more artistic freedom ?

I'm not afraid I shall not be able to justify myself !

The increases in trade barriers implemented so far are not big or fast enough to justify panic or despair.

The amount of energy harvested would have to be significant to justify the cost -- a whole lot more than 50 millivolts.

They were all convenient excuses to hide behind and in some way justify why the world owed me a favor.

do not even bother trying to justify a market simply let it do what it wants to.

But we also know that much of what Karzai says may also be the fantasies he uses to justify the growing power of the small elite around him.

But a biometric identification system could be a unique identifier that might justify its additional expense for some vendors.

Big terrorist attacks have in the past been used by the Kremlin to justify tightening its grip on power and curbing the opposition.

For example, a new stand mixer might be hard to justify, but if it encourages you to cook more at home, it will save you money.

In a strict sense, a little bit of loyalty to justify getting a lot wisdom.

That leaves private equity in the tough position of having to justify its place in the region's financial markets.

For management to justify its decisions in an increasingly litigious society is likely to be expensive.

Of course, to justify their poor preparation to combat such a large leak of oil, Hayward may have greatly understated its probability.

But was the information strong enough to justify emptying the city's biggest hotel?

if it is able to find some excuse to justify their own words, this means not yet fully played out of their abilities.

Whether that will be enough to justify the spinning off of Fiat Industrial is hard to say.

Your envy of a counterpart could cause you to justify behavior that you would normally avoid.

You no longer have to justify to others that the success of your work is measured by how effective you are in breaking things.

Both justify a shift towards a more equitable financial partnership with a greater financial commitment coming from beneficiaries.

Drilling yielded low margins that did not justify its claim on capital, so the oil majors outsourced it.

It would be a great mistake to use an emergency to justify a permanent expansion of government .

Assuming no regulatory problems , prospects look sufficiently juiced-up to justify the frothy price .

The next day, you receive a summons from the executive committee to appear before them to justify your claims.

The judge said he found nothing to justify blame in the accident.

Conservatives, liberals and social democrats hypocritically point to the threat of the far right to justify "democratic" repression.

You know you are on a wrong path, when you try to justify you're lying to someone because it would be better for them.

For an academic subject to justify its existence, it must impart some useful understanding to its students.

Even if Jiuzhaigou is better than all the alpine valleys, it is pretty hard to justify the cost of getting there.

Global warming is melting glaciers fast enough to justify making them the theme of this year's World Environment Day.

This was, after all, the argument used to justify America's investment in the internet and in GPS (the Pentagon owns the GPS satellites).

In any case, your wish to go out for a walk does not justify your leaving the baby alone in the house.

and then they may be more easy to define and to justify than they now are, by any body but herself.

Probably, Sunderland got prepared for the game and looked fresher, but it does not justify us if we are a top team.

Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable.

But today's Bridezilla might be able to justify her towering concoction, because the most famous cakes become immortal.

Called when the task is in a state that does not justify an error, but does warrant a warning.

Mr Zelaya's many faults did not justify his early-morning arrest and summary deportation.

The need for quick turnaround times also helps to justify the Leeds location at a time when some packaging manufacturing is moving overseas.

A mythical historical narrative to justify the case for such a protracted war is already being articulated.

He doesn't need to resort to rationalizations to justify his beliefs and is prepared to listen to criticisms without being offended.

The tools can provide some high ROI figures which you can be asked to justify, or commit to in terms of benefits realization.

Nobody is deciding whether a video is good enough to justify the scarce channel space it uses, because there is no scarce channel space.

However, this 21-year-old has grit enough to justify the title of her hit second album, Fearless.

These findings were not reliable enough to justify dispensing with the usual safeguards of the adversary process.

Energy cost savings alone may not justify the specification of these products at present, even allowing for developments already under way.

An asteroid would provide great insight into the solar system's formation, it's not enough to justify the expense of bringing one to Earth.

Your mind can justify double standards, it seems, but in your heart you know you're wrong.

The risk of a demonstration creating a disturbance, the court declared, was not sufficient to justify a ban.

It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

Has Obama done enough to justify winning the Nobel Peace Prize? If not, who do you think should have won?

The justify option can be used to align the column values to the right, center, or left of a column.

Often the objectives of a paper when it is finished are different from those used to justify starting the work.

They are building extremely expensive high speed trains in areas that do not and will not, economically justify such expenditure.

I'm trying to justify it to myself by vowing it will be our last splurge.

Both of these organizations have been asked to justify themselves in ways they never had to before.

We have to determine whether or not we could justify additional taxpayers assistance.

But it has been hard to justify in a Japan with such feeble growth momentum and one that has never decisively defeated deflation.

Of course, the antics of unruly demonstrators in Paris cannot be used to condone or justify Chinese repression in Tibet.

They do not include commercial projects, which local governments often use to justify land appropriations.

This isn't the first time that the Bible has been used to justify anti-gay rhetoric.

But even if they get hurt, they would not choose to open their hearts to fully justify it, or suffer in silence.

He did not even justify himself as many did by saying he had a house full of women and that he was their only breadwinner.

This is going to be very difficult, because all our culture, our tradition, is to compare, justify or condemn what we are.

By the time you exceed that, you should be able to justify paying for the service.

But how could the Supreme Court justify this extension, since the Bill of Rights by its terms limited only the federal government?

If smoking turned out to be a money-saver for the government, would that really justify a cigarette subsidy?

French presidents do not wait to recount and justify their deeds in office; they write their memoirs before they come into power.

Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone's cost .

I knew he was strapped for cash, but so was the state, and I couldn't justify the expense.

The Nazis blame the Communists and use the fire to justify suspending civil liberties, setting up a dictatorship under Adolf Hitler.

Any means may justify the ends of a man of genius.

"I don't justify it, " Mr. Freed said. "It's why I try to save as much water as I can. "

List three goods for which the law of one price is likely to hold, and three goods for which it is not. Justify your choices.

Mr Obama's flip-flop on public finance is certainly cynical (and his willingness to justify it as an act of high principle even more so).

The White House condemned the attack as an act of terrorism that no cause whatsoever can justify.

The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of .

None of these criticisms, however, would justify a full-scale break-up.

The generals signally failed to prove the claims of "rampant corruption" and other misdeeds by Mr Thaksin used to justify the coup.

It's absolutely necessary for me that I can't justify keeping this job anymore.

If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Critics accuse China of trying to exaggerate the threat in order to justify harsh suppression of dissent in the region.

My bicycle. It was a tough decision whether I could afford (and justify) $900 on a new bike last summer, but I'm glad I did.

This is a feeble argument: the hobnobbing would have to be unimaginably good to justify such a waste of time and money.

In highlighting the improved conditions in Iraq we do not mean to justify The Economist's support of the invasion of 2003 (see article).

He also continued to justify military action against Lee.

The fundamentals justify elevated property prices, just as they did in the US.

No matter what the cause, it still does not justify one to abandon the pursuit of a God that never changes.

Your wish to go for a walk does not justify your leaving the baby alone in the house.

"How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat? " Obama asked, referring to AIG's management.

I could justify almost any expenditure, any impulse buy, and all of it went on the credit card.

When all is said and done, the business value of SOA would be hard to justify to business stakeholders.

What might persuade investors that this is sufficiently likely to justify funding Greece?

Unfortunately, this notion of a benign or even progressive Soviet system is offered to justify current and future assertiveness.

So declared President Obama, after his commendable decision to release the legal memos that his predecessor used to justify torture.

Of all the possible reasons one might think or justify it's down to the obtuse chains of a trait I get from my Mother: hoarding (! ).

In the first of his Critiques, Kant was concerned to justify metaphysics as a legitimate subject of inquiry.

So I sent a message to my French publisher, asking him to arrange a book promotion in Paris to justify a trip over there.

And it would be more palatable if governments cut the taxes that they currently justify in the name of greenery.

Hatred of the Muslim Brothers does not justify the apparatus of state violence that catches all Egypt in its vice.

But in seeking to justify his actions during war time, he does, perhaps unwittingly, hit upon a reasonable and rather important argument.

"Justify My Love" is an eerie, sultry tableau of jaded androgynous creatures, trapped in a decadent sexual underground.

Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq?

Russia may choose to celebrate the anniversary as a common victory over fascism. Or it may use it to justify Stalinism.

How could it justify having a monopoly of trade as well as the right to tax the citizens of India?

The possibility of new resources and the boost of people's morale, however, justify such a considerable input.

The bureaucrats can claim that they've "helped" your team, and are thus able to justify their existence.

Listen carefully, do not try to respond, explain, justify, or defend.

The threat of violence is probably being overstated by the authorities to justify suppressing any kind of peaceful protest during the games.

Greece criticized S& P for Monday's downgrade, saying there were no new facts to justify such a move.

But when it comes to the evaluation of a specific drug, I find it hard to justify going beyond scientific arguments.

But although it takes a long view to justify an investment like this, it also takes something else: low interest rates.

This was a rare opportunity for Britain's beleaguered secret state to justify itself, and tell its side of the story.

Despite all the hoopla, I have yet to see one sound, concrete reason that would justify creating a separate breed.

The permission to do so was embodied in a proclamation, whereby the conqueror endeavoured to justify his claim to the Babylonian throne.

Such a quantity does not justify a special discount.

If I can try to justify why we did not play the way I want my team to play I would say that it is our own fault of course.

Because "Time Gallery" should not give the explanation to justify itself, and only agreed to a movement to replace Miss Duan.

Be mindful of your goals . It's hard to justify chatting on IM if your goal is to become your own boss.

The employees sought to justify the travel by claiming the flight time was more than 14 hours in length.

Even so, such results amply justify Goldman shares' strong outperformance of the rest of the financial sector over the period of the crisis.

Now, I want to be very clear: we do not think our work should or could justify prejudice against people of one or another body size at all.

The North, meanwhile, worked to justify one of the worst attacks on South Korean territory since the 1950-53 Korean War.

His business was so nearly concluded as to justify him in proposing to take his passage in September packet.

Mr Berlusconi has sought to justify this by arguing that the myriad checks and balances in the system make Italy ungovernable.

Several books touch on this topic, but none deals with enough information to completely justify as a book on the Lunar Nodes.

We can argue about whether the ends justify the means (i. e. deficit spending) but the public can grasp the need for such a mechanism.

We uphold that the current financial crisis does not justify trade protectionism, and this position remains unchanged.

He turned his examination of how we justify our eating habits into a book called Eating Animals.

Russia[font=Arial] has made perfunctory attempts to justify the invasion. It claimed that it was defending Russian citizens.

Yet it is hard to see how the company can justify splashing out the equivalent of 400 times Skype's operating income last year for its prey.

The name is used to justify their existence, so if that's false words, that shows his existence is not true.

Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy and gladness.

Some reason that will justify my taking that my past experience as a relevant to what's going to happen next.

Please respond with any questions you may have. Also, please provide as much detail as possible to justify project pricing.

At work, running on the spot (figuratively). A mirage of coffee is before me. Can I justify an espresso on the way to the bank?

One celebrity said: the ends justify the means.

So we might justify our decisions in ways that have nothing to do with our real, subconscious motivations.

"Clearly, it is hard to justify a sizeable payoff of that sort, " spokesman Steve Field said.

But I figured, what the heck. If it made Clarissa feel better, we could justify it.

Then there are the concepts we've used to justify our own actions particularly when it comes to foreign direct investment.

When a country has doubts about its future, its identity, groups look to justify themselves in light of the past.

Whatever the case, you might justify not allowing yourself to get any breaks just to keep up with the demands being made on your time.

"Justify My Love" is truly avantgarde, at a time when that word has lost its meaning in the flabby art world.

But do these revelations justify the sceptics' claims that this is "the final nail in the coffin" of global warming theory?

Admittedly such an argument cannot by itself justify the use of a local standard of care in any particular proposed trial.

In this case, the answer seems to lie in our ability (or inability) to justify our actions.

Russia has made perfunctory attempts to justify the invasion. It claimed that it was defending Russian citizens.

Mathematicians typically justify their fundamental axioms, in particular those of set theory, by informal appeals to the imagination.

The computer simulation and practical application can justify the effectiveness and reliability of this algorithm in low SNR.

The Hutu fanatics who seized power blamed the Tutsi rebels of the RPF for the assassination, and used it to justify the genocide.