Criteria to select contractor is subjective and difficult to evaluate and to justify later.

Later in the discussion he justified his views as follows:

He had already made far too many command decisions that he was going to have to justify later.

Ferguson later justified his orders saying "that guy is killing us."

He later justified his action by saying "I've seen people hit by bottles and it makes a bloody mess of them".

He later justified the act as "just wanting to see what it looks like on the inside".

He later justified his choice by stating that the Iron Guard "represented the political base of the country at the time."

He later justified his decision by saying that he was desperate for a taste of international cricket having just been dropped from the England team.

Duke later justified the repairs by saying most of his home was used by the Klan.

It was overruled from London on the grounds later justified that victory wouldn't be a shock in the least.