"At any rate, it's bad enough to justify cutting a few corners."

I was trying to keep 220 Thai employees busy, but as labor costs kept going up, I couldn't justify cutting cheap stones here.

The report convinced bankers that the economy would be sluggish enough to justify cutting the prime rate, which they lowered to 8.50 percent, from 8.75 percent.

Furthermore, adjusting the city's housing costs to those of lower income suburban counties is not only unfair but is also an apparent ploy to justify cutting HUD's budget.

Many doctors said they feared that the information could be used by the government to justify cutting their Medicare fees.

But he couldn't justify cutting himself any slack, not with what he was demanding from the others.

I just don't understand how the government can justify cutting the ESA payments after one year?

Congressional Republicans are trying to invoke the cost of reconstruction from Hurricane Katrina to justify cutting even more deeply and cruelly into programs that help the poorest Americans.

"How can they possibly justify cutting the Fleet even further?"