Justifiable Sentence Examples

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  • Economically such companies are also justifiable up to a certain point.

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  • Of all these interventions the most justifiable and beneficent, perhaps, was that which related to the Swiss cantons.

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  • How far this interpretation of Zeno is historically justifiable, may be doubtful.

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  • Not only this - is it morally justifiable for people to be punished differently for the same thing?

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  • To ascribe such powers to them exclusively is, however, not justifiable.

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  • There are no grounds on which this could be considered justifiable.

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  • And in Intermail's case, Martin can point out with justifiable pride that the company has been around no less than 42 years.

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  • The English cable companies urged that state interference with private enterprise was neither justifiable nor necessary, as the rates could be reduced and an alternative cable route to Australia arranged on reasonable terms without it, and that the Cape route would be the best alternative route.

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  • There is no need here to criticise more minutely this projected arrangement, and it must be said that, notwithstanding his researches, he seems to have had some misgivings that, after all, the separation of the Insessores into those " tribes " might not be justifiable.

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  • Whose justifiable disgust at the sight of discarded chewing gum or of dog turds on the pavement made him find alternative routes home.

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  • The Mayor initially refused an inquest, then relented but directed the coroner to return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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  • Indeed, the vast majority of the time you do not decide to become angry, but anger moods can come to the surface without any warning, often for no justifiable reason at all.

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  • With the cost of energy skyrocketing every single year, the initial cash outlay for a fireplace insert is completely justifiable.

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  • For groups or clubs that will re-use the costume for future Easter events or fundraisers, however, a purchase from a costume shop can certainly be justifiable.

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  • The courts ruled the murder a justifiable homicide since the husband was reasonably in fear for his life.

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  • Claims can also be filed when there is no justifiable reason for the lawsuit, but until the case is dismissed legal fees will still be incurred.

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  • These interesting facts on social media might inspire corporations and their marketers to wonder if there is a justifiable return on their investment.

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  • Sometimes, a taxpayer can have these fines reduced or expunged, but only if they provide the IRS with evidence of a justifiable reason for failing to comply with its deadlines.

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  • In doctrine he adhered to the old faith from first to last, while as a question of church policy, the only matter for consideration with him was whether the new laws and ordinances were constitutionally justifiable.

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  • The mutineers were completely cowed; the king of Delhi was taken and reserved for trial; and his sons were shot by Catain Hodson, after unconditional surrender, an act which has since been the theme of much reprobation, but which commended itself at the time to Hodson's comrades as wise and justifiable.

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  • Even applying the normal fortitude to secondary victims only is the rule still justifiable?

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  • Neil and Ann - Yes I agree there is totally justifiable anger within us as individuals and our community.

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  • Query, in a man who has been so much calumniated, is that not justifiable?

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  • Leo Strauss thought hoi polloi could justifiable be kept docile by lies, and the biggest one is religion.

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  • Why did the jury return a verdict of " justifiable homicide " at the inquest into the death of PC Robert Culley?

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  • If the employer refuses they must explain why in writing and give objectively justifiable reasons.

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  • None the less, it is arguable that an opt-out system is ethically justifiable in certain circumstances.

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  • Withholding drugs on the economically justifiable grounds of protection of property rights, is an obvious disgrace in humanistic terms.

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  • That, of course, is a perfectly justifiable approach to music in the 19th century.

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  • The example of its use in the van seems justifiable, its use in planes is logical.

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  • Within or near to particularly sensitive areas waste disposal site may not be justifiable.

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  • Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of Bishop Colenso were referred to him, but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.

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  • It is never justifiable to kill an innocent human being to save another.

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  • How can an energy efficient tenanted building be achieved and still return commercially justifiable rental charges?

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  • The annexation of the province of Oudh was justifiable on the ground of morals, though not on that of policy.

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  • Such an operation is obviously justifiable only in cases where other less severe measures have failed to give relief.

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  • The widespread belief, he admitted, "may be justifiable and founded on fact," but he was careful to add that "only the confirmation of the tradition by methodical investigation, in this case by experiment, could raise telegony to the rank of a fact."

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  • Her connexion with the trial of Orestes, the introduction of a milder form of punishment for justifiable homicide, and the institution of the court TO HaXXa54, show the important part played by her in the development of legal ideas.

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  • To assume a cylindrical form of primary wave would be justifiable only when there is synchronism among the secondary waves issuing from the various centres.

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  • It is specially directed to the question of hypothesis, and holds that a hypothesis is justifiable only on the ground that it provides an explanation.

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  • The treaty of Abo, and indeed the whole of Charles John's foreign policy in 1812, provoked violent and justifiable criticism among the better class of politicians in Sweden.

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  • It may also be admitted that the scribes who produced the Hebrew basis of the Septuagint version, conscious of the unsettled state of the text, did not shrink from what they considered a justifiable simplification.

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  • In any case, such scepticism is at all times sufficiently refuted by the imperishable and justifiable trust of reason in itself.

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  • The system devised might have been justifiable as a check on a retrograde government, but was wholly inapplicable to a reforming government and a serious obstacle to the attainment of national prosperity.

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  • They were applied to other P Y PP uses less justifiable or defensible; they served to execute the will of the despotic master upon all who set themselves in opposition to his authority, or were decreed, more or less wisely but still arbitrarily, by a government in the best interests of society, organized for the general good.

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  • This appeared to Bacon justifiable and right, because the prerogative would be defended and preserved intact.

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  • A country which is so devoted to free trade that it not only practises free trade itself but endeavours to convert others by nullifying their protectionist measures as far as it can, even with immediate loss to itself, departs from the guidance of selfinterest so far; hut its political action may be justifiable in the long run by other considerations.

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  • Though he neednot be blamed for making a prompt end of the traitor Eadric Streona and of Tjhtred, the turbulent earl of Northumbria, at the commencement of his reign, there are other and less justifiable deeds of blood to be laid to his account.

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  • His policy seemed tame and cautious, but was entirely justifiable, for within a few months of Roberts departure the inevitable feudal rebellion broke out.

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  • Siqueira's expedition ended in failure, owing partly to the aggressive attitude of the Portuguese, partly to the very justifiable suspicions of the Malays, and he was presently forced to destroy one of his vessels, to leave a number of his men in captivity, and to sail direct for Portugal.

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  • It is at least clear that in Ozobranchus this comparison is justifiable; but only probable, or perhaps possible, in the case of Philaemon.

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  • With the incoming of the last decade of the century there seemed to be some justifiable hopes of the dawn of better times, but they were speedily doomed to disappointment.

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  • He was quite aware of the taxonomic value of the vocal organs of some groups of birds, presently to be especially mentioned, and he had himself ascertained the presence and absence of caeca in a not inconsiderable number of groups, drawing thence very justifiable inferences.

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  • He had viewed proposals to abandon the campaign with alarm; but after visiting the peninsula he realized that evacuation was the only justifiable course, and he reported to that effect.

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  • His interference in the quarrels of the republics was not only quite justifiable from the relation in which he stood to them, but seemed absolutely necessary.

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  • The mass of the Swedish people was penetrated by a justifiable fear that the external, artificial greatness of their country might, in the long run, be purchased with the loss of their civil and political liberties.

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  • His consciousness of his own powers animated him with a most justifiable ambition, if ever there was one, to play a part in the conduct of national affairs.

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  • On farms of moderate size it is usual to hire steam tackle as required, the outlay involved in the purchase of a set being justifiable only in the case of estates or of very big farms where, when not engaged in ploughing, or in cultivating, or in other work upon the land, the steam-engine may be employed in threshing, chaff-cutting, sawing and many similar operations which require power.

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  • It may be questioned whether this assumption was justifiable, since the rate of change and the distribution of temperature were quite different in the two cases, in addition to the sign of the change itself.

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  • It appears to the author, however, that where such methods are employed merely with a view to overcoming a specific malady and there is no intention of increasing the quantity of the wine for purposes of gain, or of giving it a fictitious appearance of quality, these operations are perfectly justifiable and may be compared to the modifications of procedure which are forced upon the brewer or distiller who has to deal with somewhat abnormal raw material.

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