To talk simply of empires and patriotic duty was sensed to be no longer convincing as a public justification for these sacrifices.

All lawyers, he maintained in the Legal Times article, should bear a "burden of public justification" for the work they undertake.

The main public justification for the Cheney task force was the 2000-2001 electricity crisis in California.

And, of course, they were included in the public justification for the invasion.

Here, finally, is a "mandate" that the president-elect can find plainly expressed in the court's public justification of its 5-to-4 vote.

Eventually Germans abandoned any public justification or explanations regarding arrests and expulsions.

Countries need a public justification for attacking another country.

People are being killed, and we generally require some public justification when we go about killing people.

National unification has become the public justification for every controversial political action, the cause that one's opponent is always harming.

Large areas of administrative action avoid the discipline of public justification.