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A narrow majority of the respondents said that India would "not be justified in taking such action and hold identical feelings about the US if the positions were reversed".

People who want to valorize the KKK have an interest in perpetuating the myth that Frank's lynching was justified.

We also justified, in one way or another, all of our violations against Native American tribes.

That was justified with City rarely needing to alter a winning machine - but, despite more obvious problems this season, he still only makes an average of 3.3 substitutions per match.

The investigator alleged the infusion of illegally grown weed was poorly governed and so large as to hurt legal growers, but was justified “with the oft-repeated excuse ‘at least we get the tax dollars.’”