Sentence examples for justifiable under from inspiring English sources

While the plight of the Iraqi people under Saddam Hussein was certainly a despicable situation, an invasion solely to change an internal political situation in another country is neither justified nor justifiable under existing international law.

How is this justifiable under European law?

This mix might be justifiable under the Steiner philosophy, but "broad and balanced" it ain't.

"There is the question of whether the use of force by Georgia in South Ossetia … was justifiable under international law.

He said: "If he has decided I shouldn't have claimed something which I feel was justifiable under the rules at the time, then I won't pay it".

With an unspoken dig at Tony Blair, he said Britain's armed forces would be deployed "only where key UK national interests are at stake…where we have a viable exit strategy; and where justifiable under international law".

Muybridge's lawyer entered a plea of insanity, although the jury actually found that the killing was a justifiable homicide under "unwritten law".

At the hearing the judge says, "Maybe you have an argument to take to the legislature to expand justifiable homicide under the law".

Court's career-end necessity, battle-hardened self-belief ("I knew I was right") and financial means to access Rolls Royce legal process are the factors that commonly combine in "pale, stale males" but few others in the workforce with a justifiable grievance under the new legislation.

Marie called this a serious tactical error by Möbius's but that it was a justifiable risk under the circumstances.

When parties enter into negotiations in bad faith, deliberately misrepresent their opponents' positions, and refuse to cooperate even on matters on which they could find agreement, they undermine the relationships of respect that are necessary to sustain any morally justifiable democracy under the modern conditions of deep and persistent disagreement.