Sentence examples for excuse justified from inspiring English sources

Second, also from Greenawalt comes the suggestion that any principle that officials may excuse justified illegal acts will result in some failures to punish unjustified acts, for which the purposes of punishment would be more fully served.

When a Syrian passport was found near the the scene of one of the Paris terror attacks at the end of November, it quickly became the new excuse justify hate speech against refugees.

Todd Presner, director of UCLA's Jewish Studies Center, could not be reached for comment Friday but he told the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles this week that he will not revoke the invitation even though he does not "excuse, justify or apologize" for West's positions on Israel.

The law generally recognizes a number of particular situations in which the use of force, even deadly force, is excused or justified.

Violence against us is excused or justified.

Officials rely on stereotypes and tired excuses to justify brushing off entire groups of people.

I have fabricated excuses to justify my absence when the road seems too hard to travel.

"This society always finds excuses to justify the rape and murder of women.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has accused energy firms of having "a list of excuses" to justify price rises.

Anti-capitalists deploy an array of excuses to justify their punitive discrimination against Americans on the basis of wealth.

Next time your gut tells you something, don't make excuses to justify it into silence.