But that very fact requires a conventionalist to find a more complex political justification than the one I just described.

It will only serve as a political justification for the heavy investment in nuclear facilities already made.

This becomes especially important if a successful political justification must be generally acceptable to the ruled.

This rapid military success does not, however, confer automatic political justification for the war.

As political justifications go, the national interest is an oddly ceremonial one.

There is no political justification for being an informer.

There is neither moral nor political justification for these acts.

There is no moral or political justification for such horrendous acts.

In democratic States, there is no religious, political or economic justification for recourse to terrorism.

In addition, it must be possible to provide economic as well as political justification for the solution.