I find it horrifying that a United State general would try to justify treating Iraqis this way, even for a day or two.
The Administration now relies on this decision to justify treating applications from Nicaraguans more generously.
"However, they are not the kind of crimes that justify treating the defendants as if they were dangerous urban terrorists."
We've given him an easy ride so far because we didn't have a big enough lever to justify not treating him like a worried parent.
The abuses, and the ignorance of abuses, still do not justify treating all athletes more suspiciously than one treats athletic directors, lawyers, teachers, journalists.
How could they justify treating him this way?
An interest in "consistency" does not justify treating differences as though they were similarities.
Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly.
From the point of view of competition policy legislation, what grounds could be cited to justify treating the two types of aid differently?
"Unless the government can justify treating that theory and its supporting facts as classified, it must also share them with the pro se defendant," she said.