Increase and Justify

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Increase verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.

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Justify and increase are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Increase".

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

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Increase and justify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Increase" instead a verb "Justify".

ability	increase ability	justify ability
power	increase power	justify power
attack	increase attack	justify attack
amount	increase amount	justify amount
Other words: time, rating, skills, abilities.

It's not unthinkable that they paved the way for the bombing, purely to justify a budget increase.

Source: Harsher In Hindsight / Film
The Long Kiss Goodnight has the Harsher in Hindsight plot of the CIA staging a terrorist attack and "blaming it on the Muslims" so as to justify a budget increase.

Source: False Flag Operation
The original idea was to send him on a suicide mission in Europe and use his death to justify an increase in funding to NIS's European branch.

Source: Uriah Gambit aka: The Uriah Gambit

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