And while you're at it, how do you justify calling that outfit of yours an elite force?

This justifies calling A the log-normalizer or log-partition function.

Semantics aside, how hot must you be to justify calling it fever?

His eighteenth century fieldwork and reports, limited though they were, justify calling him New Hampshire's first archaeologist.

Perhaps we could even justify calling him a war poet.

It was taking longer than anticipated to secure the landing area, but not enough time had elapsed to justify calling for a report.

"But the numbers do not justify calling it a serious crime increase."

One cannot possibly justify calling for external workers while restrictions still apply to our citizens.

Even so, the invention of bluegrass was without doubt an important cultural event, very probably significant enough to justify calling its inventor a musical giant.

Semiautonomy might be enough, given the realities of the two worlds; semiauton-omy would justify calling it a free Mars.