21.   Now, it sounds like a man working on a list of reasons to justify a decision he has already made in his heart.

22.   Of those four, Ito said he found that misconduct justified the decision.

23.   Privately and publicly, her associates justified her decision as economically necessary and environmentally manageable.

24.   Santorum spokesman Mike Mihalke said Friday the senator is aggressively challenging every argument the commission makes to justify its decisions.

25.   Schafer says such volatility justifies his decision to stay fully invested.

26.   The government justified the decision by arguing that a body with more elected members would challenge the pre-eminence of the House of Commons.

27.   The Post and Time may be able to justify their decisions and clear their journalistic consciences.

28.   The test of executive staying power, however, is how to justify those decisions when they blow up.

29.   They justify that decision by saying they can find plenty of good stocks elsewhere.

30.   Allied justified the decision by saying its management believed Whitbread could complete the sale more quickly than Punch.