But the key factor was whether the decision by the police officer in charge "was justifiable on the ground that containment was the least drastic way of preventing what the police officer responsible for the decision reasonably apprehended would otherwise be imminent and serious breaches of the peace".
2, 3 A more justifiable first-order predictor is the charge conveyed by each pulse; that is, the product of current and pulse duration.
Just like the sports car driver who claims that other cars on the highway were also speeding but the officer only stopped him, the fact that others who might have violated the law have not been charged is not a justifiable basis to defend a lawsuit.
The shooting was determined to be justifiable under the law and criminal charges were not filed.
"The European low-cost airlines have proven that fares can be even lower if the airfare is for travel only and that everything else is available at a charge that is reasonable and justifiable," said Patrick Murphy, chairman of the aviation group at Performance Consultants International.
Moreover, anyone who challenges the status quo will make the charge of hypocrisy - on justifiable grounds.
"Even if the three arrested women did take part in the protest," Amnesty said on Thursday, "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities – the detention on the serious criminal charge of hooliganism – would not be a justifiable response to the peaceful – if, to many, offensive – expression of their political beliefs.
Charging students tuition to work in unpaid positions might be justifiable in some cases — if the college plays a central role in securing the internship and making it a substantive academic experience.
For instance, the death of Walter Scott in April, an incident in which the officer shot the unarmed man repeatedly in the back, is unlikely to ever show up on a list of justifiable homicides given that the officer who pulled the trigger is being charged with murder.
Those policies, stressing prevention at the expense of the rule of law, grew out of a justifiable desire to find a way to hold and interrogate suspected combatants the White House was not ready to charge.
"Burns has lied!" Some went further, maintaining that the charges, if true, showed the desperation of working people in the face of capitalist greed: "Justifiable dynamiting," the muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens cried.
