Sentence examples for justifiable if from inspiring English sources

Part of what makes us mathematicians is the understanding that claims must be justified and justifiable: if we make a claim in an instructional context, we must be able to back it up.

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.

It was a justifiable, if placid, way of handling it.

This is no longer justifiable, if it ever was..

But lying is obviously justifiable if telling the truth will get someone unjustifiably killed.

William's action would have been justifiable if he himself had been in possession of a solution.

All of which would be justifiable if the country got some benefit in return.

Inaction is only justifiable if we're certain that the bad outcome won't happen.

That might be justifiable if the public spending itself takes the form of investment, say infrastructure.

That might be justifiable, if it were a case of sacrificing some international legitimacy for greater efficiency.

When the state tries to get them to pay sales tax, Reagan scores a justifiable if cheap chortle.