Sentence examples for justification for feeling from inspiring English sources

"If I believe the new model is a better way for artists to operate, that is a moral justification for feeling good about investing in Napster," Mr. Alsop said, "even though technically what they're doing is facilitating illegal behavior".

Bulldogs fans have had cause to be glum for much of the last two seasons, perhaps even justification for feeling frustrated about the lack of progress in the Brendan McCartney era.

It's a chance to remind yourself why you got involved in the business in the first place, away from the usual aesthetic arguments and the tedious crap you get from critics". Warner has justification for feeling more than a little sore at the critical reception he has received in recent months.

A contemporary critic wrote, "Those who experienced the tremendous impact of its first performance had full justification for feeling that a great composer had arisen in our land, a composer to whose potentialities it was impossible to set any limits".

Israel, which carries the memory of the Jewish people and the completely unprovoked horrors of the Holocaust, has every justification for feeling existentially threatened by the apocalyptic rhetoric of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad calling for the destruction of Israel (seconded, it must be noted, by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, though less bombastically).

There was some justification for that feeling.

A good example is the "True Prep Pantheon," which serves up biographies on prep notables ( Tom Wolfe, Michelle Obama and Frank Lloyd Wright among them) that ends up feeling like a justification for revisiting this odd breed ("See, Muffy — we are relevant!").

The worst part about getting fired--particularly when there is no justification for it--is the feeling of powerlessness.

(From "Are you feeling lucky, punk?".) Peter's leader on the justification for the first Gulf war, from January 1991:Benjamin Franklin said there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

My feeling is that there was no public interest justification for the Telegraph sting.

Shalvi, S., Gino, F., Barkan, R. & Ayal, S. Self-serving justifications: doing wrong and feeling moral.