1.   People justified his actions, saying maybe he steals, but he gets things done.

2.   The resistance is taking place in an environment in which defending Croatian values may allow some people to justify killings.

3.   Without explicitly discussing the question of moral responsibility, the series raises it again and again, as people justify their behavior in terms of self-preservation.

4.   I have run into many situations whereby people justify away their inability to change.

5.   People will justify any means to gain power, and politics has descended into a sort of barbarian arena where tricks and violence prevail.

6.   To satisfy their greed, some people justify all means to achieve their goal.

7.   Spokeswoman Rebecca Peters said such people could justify using semi-automatic weapons, but not military-style weapons and not high-capacity magazine weapons.