They had a good workman's justifiable pride; the landscape paintings were like the "after" pictures of a successful home-improvement project.
But it is worth recalling that in 1983, when President Reagan pinned that tail on the Soviet donkey, he touched off a good deal of justifiable anxiety.
The difference principle requires that all such inequalities of social primary goods must be justifiable to the representative worst off party within society; appeals to utility, or to efficiency, or to other forms of social value simply will not suffice.
It would be surprising, the argument goes, if there were just one justifiable way of setting a priority with respect to the two goods, even when we take into account the justifiable ways in which the two kinds of ethics could be brought closer together.
Allowing police to confiscate passports at the UK border to prevent an aspiring young jihadi from leaving for Syria via Istanbul may be justifiable on good intelligence and a sensible extension of the home secretary's powers.
Especially with its philosophical inquiries into good, evil, and everything justifiable in between.
In this case, the Minnesota legislature passed a statute allowing courts to shut down "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspapers", allowing a defense of truth only in cases where the truth had been told "with good motives and for justifiable ends".
In the dark calculations of a flawed political world, even something that's clearly wrong can be justified, if not truly justifiable, if it has good results.
This is within the range of uniform k from core sample and existing well test interpretation for this reservoir; a good estimation of permeability is justifiable.
If, for instance, dirty air and water are not conducive to the common good, then there can be justifiable restrictions on polluting industries, even if these restrictions reduce profits.
