"I don't think there is any compelling audience need or economic justification," he said.

"I defy anyone to provide sound economic justification that such an act will be to the benefit of Britain."

Opponents of the project have also questioned the economic justification for the work.

"What is the economic justification for this kind of lawsuit in the Federal courts under any circumstances?"

There is economic justification both from history and from the Washington of our day.

However, the more modern economic justification comes, as noted, from Washington and the economics of our own time.

However, it offered no specific economic justification for the same.

In democratic States, there is no religious, political or economic justification for recourse to terrorism.

Such investment has no economic justification and will only lead to the distortion of the European market.

As I have said earlier, this is a project with absolutely no economic justification.