Collocations for justify - verb

really, truly
Can you really justify the destruction of such a fine old building?

easily
The university could not easily justify spending the money on this.

hardly
The result hardly justified the risks they took to get it.

can
serve to
The events that followed served to justify our earlier decision.

appear to, seem to
In 1865 a letter arrived that appeared to justify her faith.

help to
The extra effort involved would go a long way in helping to justify their high price tags.

be easy to
the many issues that make it easy to justify the purchase

attempt to, seek to, try to
be necessary to, have to, need to
be difficult to, be hard to, be tough to, struggle to
He found it very difficult to justify his decision.

be impossible to

on the grounds of sth, on the grounds that …
The decision is justified on the grounds that there is no realistic alternative.

to
How will you justify this pay cut to your employees?

Justify is used with these nouns as the subject:
argument

Justify is used with these nouns as the object:
act, assertion, belief, choice, conclusion, decision, exercise, existence, expenditure, expense, failure, finding, imposition, inclusion, intervention, invasion, killing, murder, risk, slavery, suspicion, termination, use, violence