Sentence examples for justifiable thing from inspiring English sources

I don't believe in killing animals, but I think President Obama did a justifiable thing in swatting a fly.

And not only did we meet them, we also experienced them being met and supported by groups of people who apparently think rape is a totally justifiable thing.

It is consistent with the rejection of explicit legalisation of the torturing of the guilty that, as noted above, there be some form of legal redress in the very small number of exceptional cases of torturing the guilty in which the threat to the innocent is imminent (and torture is morally justifiable all things considered).

And while there was justifiable concern that things could go sour before Interstate 405 was opened again on Monday morning — city officials were warning of complacency, even as they celebrated what seemed to be another Y2K moment — it seemed like the crisis of "Carmageddon," as it was called, might end up being averted, or at least exaggerated.

And the metaphor we use to describe our struggle matters: some things that are justifiable in a temporary time of war are not justifiable during a permanent fight against crime, even if the criminals are murderous fanatics.

It seems to me this is how we now look at things, and being justifiable isn't the same as correct.

The argument is that there are, or could well be, one-off acts of torture in extreme emergencies that are, all things considered, morally justifiable.

And it's often justifiable to know the negative things that go on in society so you are better informed and better suited to keep you and your family safe.

"[My father] was concerned that I would never be able to make a living at this kind of thing – it was a justifiable concern," he said.

If one defines a right rather thinly as what one has whenever one has justifiable claims on others to assure one's possession of things or one's exercise of certain capacities, then one can plausibly argue that there is a common notion of rights between the Chinese and Western traditions (Wong, 2004).

The sort of humiliating thing which perhaps makes terrorism more likely, if no more justifiable.