11.   All may be shameless manipulators who believe the end justifies the means.

12.   But if the result for most former spouses is to become better reconciled to their fate and their faith, perhaps the end justifies the means.

13.   But McVeigh himself has unwittingly provided the clearest possible lesson about what can happen when we convince ourselves that the ends justify the means.

14.   But over the years, other nations have learned from the United States that national self-interest can often be used to justify ignoble means.

15.   Can you really justify the means by the end?

16.   Did the end justify the means?

17.   Does the end justify the means?

18.   Everywhere, it seems, this administration is imposing its will on others, the end justifying the means.

19.   For Odysseus, the end justifies the means.

20.   Grisham is left in the perilous position of arguing that the ends justify the means.