He had no trouble justifying his purchase, considering all the other expensive hobbies he might have taken up.

But having made the stock market the villain, he could have trouble justifying interest rate increases that also skewer the innocent.

Steve Woolf, 47, a former sales manager for Dodge who quit about three years ago to sell autographs full time, has no trouble justifying his job.

I was having trouble justifying that to myself, much less to her.

If the legal outcome of Farley's arrest proves to be more simple, Osborne would have trouble justifying a quick return.

Valdemar had no trouble justifying this action to himself.

But the kibitzer would have had some trouble justifying his instant diagnosis.

I've never had any trouble justifying or rationalizing or outright lying when it suited my cause.

Data was a person, a comrade, and a friend, and Picard had no trouble justifying his defense of him as such.

"If the estimates are right and we have an inflation rate of 5 percent for 1989, you have trouble justifying the 30-year Treasury bond at 8 percent," he said.