justify是什么意思？

To justify America's dependence on oil imports.

There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren't many things that fall in this category.

The college spending analysis justifies the outsourcing plan.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.

But don't bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view.

That’s what hard-working men and women say to justify their lavish vacations, big stereo systems or regular restaurant meals.

But we have never built a spreadsheet (电子数据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders.

There is considerable and justified concern that the United States is falling behind much of the rest of the developed world in these essential disciplines.

As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers?

For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.