Sentence examples for justifiable actions from inspiring English sources

(One tradition in philosophy, utilitarianism, is based on the idea that all justifiable actions must be justified in this way).

Both seemed like justifiable actions.

It is therefore understandable why the insertion of the near miss concept in the strategy for the combat of maternal death seems to be a justifiable action.

In the aftermath of September 11th, however, the targeting and killing of individual Al Qaeda members without juridical process has come to be seen within the Bush Administration as justifiable military action in a new kind of war, involving international terrorist organizations and unstable states.

-An internal review found that two officers on a Tampa SWAT team were in "fear for their lives" when they fatally shot Jason Westcott on May 27, making their actions justifiable.

Almost no one has advocated a clear and justifiable course of action!

Probably the best-known representative of mainstream libertarianism is the Cato Institute, which also finds virtually no U.S. military action justifiable.

There are times (and issues) where the only justifiable course of action is to stand up and say: "This is wrong, and we must change it".

They said under Montana's "stand your ground" law Kaarma's actions were justifiable because he feared for his family's safety.

This leads to the escalation of mutual harm, to the illusion that others are solely responsible for it and to the belief that our actions are justifiable responses to theirs.

If so, then one very plausible way to model ordinary prudential deliberation is as consisting of a desire that one's actions be justifiable to all affected future stages of oneself (see, e.g., McClennen 1990, 217).