Sentence examples for justification like from inspiring English sources

The deliberate killing of another person is generally murder unless it is excused by some valid legal justification, like the law of war's combatant immunity.

The mayor's justification, like that of the two councils, was that the DVS report endorsed Capco's assessment rather than finding fault with it.

The position that Ms. Nasser sets forth denouncing terrorism except when there is a political justification, like fighting a country that is viewed as an "occupying power" is one that Osama bin Laden, Puerto Rican nationalists, the Irish Republican Army, the Tamil Tigers and other terrorist groups would be happy to support.

Even the District Attorney, Eddie Jordan, did not mince his words: 'We cannot allow our police officers to shoot and kill our citizens without justification, like rabid dogs.' There have also been doubts expressed about the judge assigned to the trial, Raymond Bigelow.

Second, there remains a residual worry that this justification, like all the others, proves too much.

Unfortunately texts that deal explicitly with appropriate action leave certain crucial questions unanswered: can there be more than one appropriate action in a given situation, and is the sense of 'reasonable justification' like the law's 'reasonable doubt' or 'reasonable person'?

Furthermore, Battered Women's Syndrome is often thought of as an "excuse defense," as opposed to a "justification defense" like Stand Your Ground.

As justification, Joey likes to quote Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine: "If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end.

A similar list distributed in 2004 to Texas prosecutors included justifications like "Agreed with O. J. Simpson verdict" and "Watched gospel TV programs".

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., the current Solicitor General, understated matters by saying that justifications like that one for "the institution of marriage would hardly be recognizable to most of its participants".

Justifications like these have been enough for a court to consider a stop constitutionally permissible, even if the real motivation was race, based on a precedent set in a 1996 Supreme Court decision.