justification

an intellectually untenable justification for police brutality.

this rhetoric offers a post hoc justification for the changes.

There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units.

considered misgovernment to be a justification for revolution.See Synonyms at apology

In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.

This new institution of monarchy required the invention of a new legitimation of authority beyond the tribal justification of chieftainship based on concepts of kinship and responsibility.

Train the distributors sales force in field visit routines, promotions and collection of outstandings, justification of Castrol price structure.

The two main justifications for adding chips to passports are that they improve security at border crossings and speed up immigration procedures. Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.

In the young there is a justification for this feeling.

A twisted hallucination, born of hate, became a justification for murder.

She is very good on Napoleon's justifications for theft.

The SMS from Heaven Foundation claimed biblical justification for its actions.

Perhaps you tell yourself certain justifications because the truth is hard.

In fact, externalities are the justification for almost everything the government does.

Fears when present find any justification.Fear is the problem, not fears.

Regardless, he stressed that there is no specific justification for war with Iran.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry said there was no justification for it.

Gavin Newsom said there could be no justification for widespread ownership of weapons of war.