Sentence examples for is justifiable for from inspiring English sources
And the argument that retributivism justifies punishment better than consequentialism presupposes that punishment is justifiable (for criticism of this premise, see Golash 2005; Boonin 2008), and that there are no alternatives that are better than both (for two alternatives, see Quinn 1985; Tadros 2011).
22 General standards could be developed by determining, first, the weight to be given various grounds for delay and, then, how great a delay is justifiable for each.
Keeping the exchange in its traditional location will require the largest subsidy package in city history, but the investment is justifiable, for the loss of the tax revenues generated by the exchange and related businesses would be devastating.
But 45% of Indian girls are married before the age of 18, according to the International Centre for Research on Women (2010); 56,000 maternal deaths were recorded in 2010 (UN Population Fund) and research from Unicef in 2012 found that 52% of adolescent girls (and 57% of adolescent boys) think it is justifiable for a man to beat his wife.
The lesson of Osirak is very limited -- that in extreme cases it is justifiable for a country to make a pre-emptive pinpoint strike to prevent an unpredictable enemy from gaining weapons of mass destruction that would be used against it.
Even if an adaptationist stance of this sort is justifiable for learning mechanisms (and cultural evolutionists typically are adaptationists in this respect) this does not mean that an adaptationist stance is justifiable for learned traits.
"But because it's tough, because it's a challenge, it's justifiable for adults.
"I don't think it's justifiable for any politician to interfere in the election of a president of a sports governing body in that way," Efford said.
The new processing techniques of liquid and resin film moulding have to date only been proven to be justifiable for complex high value parts.
