Sentence examples for could justly be from inspiring English sources

Indeed, these peoples could justly be penalised for failing to conform to European norms.

The Alexandrists, however, led by Pietro Pomponazzi, denied that either the Thomist or the Averroist view could justly be attributed to Aristotle.

However, some scientists have argued that the Holocene Epoch terminated in the relatively recent past and that Earth currently resides in a climatic interval that could justly be called the Anthropocene Epoch that is, a period during which humans have exerted a dominant influence over climate.

If all land was (privately) owned by landlords, everyone else could justly be excluded from the world.

On a more serious note, he observes, "people argue that, differences in education apart, men are still naturally more intelligent than women, but this is far from being proven, and would have to be before women could justly be deprived of a natural right".

But if the System of Necessity were true, Reid claimed, there is no proper sense in which actions that appear to be performed by an agent could justly be attributed to that agent the human agent being simply a theater in which various drives and impulses vie for dominance.

"The Book of Emma" could as justly be called "The Book of Lachlan" – written with roaming instinct.

In an adjoining article, as it happens, Steve Vineberg praises the featherweight "Sex and the City" ["The Courage to Aim Both High and Low," July 22] in words that could more justly be directed at "Six Feet Under": "No TV comedy right now shows classier acting credentials".

Even if they had rejected the faith after it had been properly preached to them (but "I hear only of provocations, savage crimes, and multitudes of unholy acts" on the part of the Spaniards, p. 271), they could still not justly be despoiled of their possessions.

But his stamp on the face of Scott Parker, an opponent he had bundled to the ground 10 minutes earlier, could justly have been penalized with a red card.

VERY few court decisions can justly be described as historic.