Justify in example sentence

Those criteria are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will actually be effective, doing more good than harm.

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And they did not turn out to be the Islamist boogeyman that the dictators were always using to justify their regime.

There's no audience like this to justify their rehearsal time.

And when you're in a situation where you have to justify every moment of your existence, you're put in the situation where you react in a very different manner.

So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

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