Besides, Ruma wasn't working and couldn't justify paying for something she now had the freedom to do.

How else could anyone justify paying an overwhelming price for the land, if not by building a gargantuan building?

"He had made it clear he couldn't justify to his owners paying me $1 million," the player said.

But if it does not happen, it will be hard to justify paying 23 times 1995 earnings.

In boom times you could justify paying $40, $50 a month on cable.

It was difficult to justify paying to watch rugby when there was little money for food and rent.

For consumers it is hard to justify paying so much for wines without a track record.

The bottom line was, I couldn't justify paying someone 5 percent of my salary for a day's worth of work.

"This means that the new issue volume in 1990 will continue its sharp decline since fewer businesses can justify paying such rates."

"We cannot justify paying somebody overtime to do the planning for a dam that will never be built," he said.