Sentence examples for justified act from inspiring English sources

Shameless e-begging, or a justified act of desperation?

The authors add: "For many at the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency who had spent nearly a decade hunting bin Laden, killing the militant was a necessary and justified act of vengeance".

In most states, the burden of proof for self-defense rests on the defendant -- they have to make their case that the killing was a justified act of self-defense.

1– 5 CE is a medically, morally, and ethically justified act to ease death and should not be equated to physician-assisted suicide or even euthanasia.

Most Israelis thought the wars were justified acts of self-defence.

Police commanders, meantime, strongly defended the shootings as justified acts of self-defense in the face of what had appeared to be extreme danger and provocation by young men with criminal histories, and they moved quickly to highlight the differences with earlier shootings by undercover officers, including that of Patrick M. Dorismond in Midtown Manhattan two weeks ago.

This includes the guilt, remorse, and mental anguish that many police officers and soldiers experience after even the most justified acts of killing.

Western Washington University emeritus philosophy professor Phillip Montague says in an essay titled "Defending Defensive Targeted Killings" that use of this tactic against combatants can be seen as defensible and justified acts against terrorism or those who assist terrorist organizations.

However, it would have required precaution (or foresight, based on sufficient evidence) to have justified acts to avoid exposure to the then uncertain hazards of asbestos in the 1930s 1950s, or to those of tobacco smoke in the 1960s.

Second, also from Greenawalt comes the suggestion that any principle that officials may excuse justified illegal acts will result in some failures to punish unjustified acts, for which the purposes of punishment would be more fully served.

Ouattara's republican forces justified these acts by saying they were looking for arms and Liberian mercenaries.