Sentence examples for 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.

Memorialising individual soldiers killed in conflict as happened throughout the last decade may be justifiable (a Blair innovation in the aftermath of Iraq): they were there at the politicians' behest.

Trials designed to show noninferiority require an appropriate reference population, a proven active control and dose, an appropriate margin of noninferiority that is clinically relevant and statistically justifiable, a high level of adherence to treatment, and adequate statistical power to reliably conclude that a treatment is truly noninferior and therefore effective.

We therefore feel that, on balance, the study was ethically justifiable, a judgement shared by the review board that approved it.

Whereas a prospective study to test hypothesis "a" is not ethically justifiable, a study could be designed to test hypothesis "b".

Whereas a prospective study to test hypothesis "a" (e.g., investigate the effect of aminoglycosides in children at risk for autism) is not ethically justifiable, a study could be designed to test hypothesis "b", i.e., whether aminoglycosides could ameliorate the clinically symptomatic disease.

"Guns are far more likely to be used in a homicide than in a justifiable homicide by a private citizen.

To be morally justifiable under a conception of deliberative democracy, a truth commission needs to economize on disagreement.

A vaccination program would be justifiable should a vaccine become available.

Unrepentant, Mr. Paumer described the killings as a justifiable response to a totalitarian regime.

Tied to this idea was the notion that war to defend Christendom was not only a justifiable undertaking but a holy work and therefore pleasing to God.