Sentence examples for as justifiable a from inspiring English sources

Normally I feel grim about people with nicknames, but Johnson's an exception: not only is he a sterling actor but it's almost as justifiable a monicker as was "Bomber" Harris.

Her characters' passion draws us in; their contradictions seem as justifiable as our own.

We must have a prosecution eventually, but we are not legally required to publicly initiate it now and we should not, as justifiable as it is.

But Mr. Singer said prosecutors in American criminal courts would face enormous obstacles in any case where the activity described as a crime under civilian laws might be viewed by a jury as justifiable in a war.

Israel has cast its strike against Syria as justifiable in a war against terrorism.

Arab-Americans are now worried about a draft version of "Patriot II", which, they say, would permit secret arrests, secret evidence in trials and other things that many of them once fled.As for Operation Liberty Shield, which is supervised by the new Homeland Security Department, some Arab-Americans seem to accept interviews with Iraqis as justifiable in a time of war.

There is a perception by some, certainly within the U.S. Jewish community, that mainline and progressive Christians excuse such attacks as justifiable or a natural outcome of the occupation.

In her book Woman and the New Race, she wrote: "while there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization".

"At that time it was seen as justifiable because there was an invasion of a foreign country, there was frustration".

You quote one person as saying of the bombing in Riyadh in May, "At that time it was seen as justifiable because there was an invasion of a foreign country, there was frustration".

In the aftermath of September 11th, however, the targeting and killing of individual Al Qaeda members without juridical process has come to be seen within the Bush Administration as justifiable military action in a new kind of war, involving international terrorist organizations and unstable states.