But given that the big firms serve many parts of the country, it probably won't be hard for most of them to justify imposing the fee.

And they know that they need external enemies to thrive and justify imposing their demented visions.

It was a stunt set up by the Chinese intelligence sendee to discredit them and justify imposing tighter restrictions, But later, the guy who authorized it admitted he was working for the KGB.

Commissioners asked the F.E.R.C. staff to justify imposing any conditions on the merger and to submit a more detailed recommendation next week.

He noted that just because, 'another innocent party or parties may suffer does not in my view of the matter justify imposing on a defrauded seller an impossible task.'

The department's position has been that the low level of complaints that it receives does not justify imposing a burdensome rule on the carriers.

There were no compelling societal reasons in this particular case that would justify imposing this legal burden on the accused.

Meanwhile, the MDC accused the government of trying to provoke its opponents into violence so that it could justify imposing a state of emergency.

Since everyone agrees that this will be the outcome, the Commission does not believe it can justify imposing several reforms on farmers shortly afterwards.

The disruptive finding, though vague, was sufficient to justify imposing a quota in a niche of the American apparel industry where employment has declined fairly steadily for years.