Justify in example sentence

Serious race-related social issues are wheeled on in contrived and opportunistic fashion in order to justify armed robbery, then they're ditched as soon as the film has to produce the inevitably conventional ending in which crime is punished, the LAPD turns out to be a bunch of caring, guilt-ridden liberals (tell that to Rodney King), and aspirational 'good' sista, Jada Pinkett Smith, follows the path of upward mobility out of the 'hood and into a world of middle-class self-indulgence opened up for her by her buppie bank-manager boyfriend.

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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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