English-French translations for justify

justifierPuis-je vous demander de justifier vos actes? Can I ask you to justify this? Un abus ne peut en justifier un autre. One abuse cannot justify another. Rien ne peut justifier un tel comportement. Nothing can justify such behaviour.
excuser

expliquer
Je dois donc apporter immédiatement des éclaircissements sur ces documents et expliquer et justifier ce que je fais. I therefore have to clarify them immediately and explain and justify what I am doing. J'essaie de m'expliquer cette situation par notre manque d'expérience de la politique européenne. I try to justify this situation by our lack of European-level experience. Par contre, il nous incombe d'expliquer et de justifier toute absence d'information des citoyens. Instead, we need to explain and justify the situation when citizens are not provided with information.
motiverQui souhaite motiver la demande? Who wishes to justify this request?

To provide an acceptable explanation for
To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant
To arrange on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned
To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin
To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right
To prove; to ratify; to confirm
To show to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation

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