Without that belief, the Communist Party's extraordinary power lacks justification.

Defense lawyers have argued that the very act of killing Ms. Webdale was insane, because it lacked reason or justification.

People may find such law acceptable, but the use of State power to coerce citizens to comply with that law lacks moral justification.

One study found that nearly 20 percent of coronary angiographies lacked medical justification.

And the actions of prison officials lack penological justification if they act with deliberate indifference to the health or safety of an inmate.

Studies show that perhaps a third of medical treatments lack scientific justification and are probably unnecessary.

But the killing, while logical as a barbaric rite, lacks emotional justification, turning the film into "an artistic blunder."

Some environmental groups and advocates of budgetary restraint argue that the project lacks economic justification.

This model is not convincing because it lacks sufficient justification.

The Commission document on alternative strategies for these relations is, in this context, insufficient and lacks justification.