"The principal justification for this project was a 1988 traffic study," he said.

Congress cited the Welch assassination as the principal justification for passing a law in 1982 making the willful identification of a CIA officer a criminal offense.

The principal justification for the non-resident vote is that about 450,000 non-residents constitute the city's day-time population and use most of its services, far outnumbering the City's 9,000 residents.

For her, and for most other Tories, the principal justification is power.

He went to war with the principal justification that it was to rid Iraq of WMDs, and there turned out to be no WMDs.

A principal justification of filtration is control of the pathogenic protozoan organisms giardia and cryptosporidium.

The principal justification offered for this is that it triggers discussion between the police and organisers, and prevents demonstrators from springing surprises on the police.

If it continues, it will cumulatively demolish the government's principal justification for refusing all political reforms: that the country's economy is healthy, and there is no need for change.

It found that the District Court rightly rejected the state's principal justification, the impact on state expenditures, since "the savings depend upon distinguishing between homosexual and heterosexual employees, similarly situated".

He will also seek more information about an antimissile defense, for which the threat of a North Korean missile attack has been cited as the principal justification.