Justify and Resist

Justify

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

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

Resist verb - To refuse to give in to.

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Justify and resist are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Resist".

ability	justify ability	resist ability
power	justify power	resist power
change	justify change	resist change
attack	justify attack	resist attack
Other words: time, rule, invasion, attempts.

Essentially, they do not justify the Law with arguments about there not being anything better, but those that argue that these Laws are the better, and may resist even legal attempts to change them.

Source: Lawful Neutral
After cleaning it up to justify their intrusion, the gang can't resist reading about their teacher's early life.What they read is a story about how the precocious youngest son of a rural family of Red Panda rice farmers is picked by Master Oogway to become his student.

Source: Fan Fic / Memoirs Of A Master
Maybe they're deeply in denial, and justify their hypocrisy as either necessary or dismiss it with a simple, "That's different." In other cases, they might find the lure of Forbidden Fruit impossible to resist.

Source: Hypocrite

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