Sentence examples for justification to kill from inspiring English sources

"Communist" was a broad and exploitable category during the purge — a justification to kill people deemed undesirable for any number of reasons.

In addition, she told him that the legitimacy of the United States' involvement in the war in Afghanistan was not at issue in the case, and that as a soldier, he had no justification to kill other soldiers.

A Justice Department memo gives the CIA legal justification to kill a US citizen.

A pending review of the shooting by the Sacramento County district attorney's office is limited to whether there was legal justification to kill Mann.

But at this point, it ought to be clear to just about everyone else that the state of Mississippi has no moral justification to kill Jeffrey Havard.

A senior member of the al-Qaida-aligned Jabhat al-Nusra tweeted this month that Kassig had treated him for a battle wound and said there was no justification under Islam to kill him.

The threat to his life drew condemnation from jihadi leaders in Syria and Jordan who are not aligned to Isis, including a senior member of the al-Qaida-aligned Jabhat al-Nusra, who tweeted that Kassig had treated him for a battle wound and said there was no justification under Islam to kill him.

For the third time in 15 months, experts have concluded there is no justification for Japan to kill whales for research purposes.

I do not accept that as a valid reason for refusing to offer any substantive justification for its decision to kill him.

Holder's comments on Monday broke the administration's silence on the legal justification for its decision to kill US-born al-Qaida operative Anwar al-Awlaki five months ago in Yemen.

The US government must publicly disclose in redacted form secret papers describing its legal justification for using drones to kill citizens suspected of terrorism overseas, because President Barack Obama and senior government officials have commented on the subject, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.