Sentence examples for legally justifiable from inspiring English sources

"It is hard to see how such a diversion of charitable funds to alternative organizations would be legally justifiable," said Stanley Katz, an expert on the legal history of philanthropy at Princeton.

Mayor Bloomberg's decision to clear tents and sleeping bags out of Zuccotti Park was legally justifiable, but he didn't manage the situation as well as he might have.

"There is no legally justifiable reason to withhold that money, except, of course, to put a gun to the state's head," he said.

Last fall, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that, in Stand Your Ground's first decade, the number of homicides ruled legally justifiable had increased in Florida by seventy-five per cent.

(iii) In these circumstances, and as an exceptional measure on grounds of overwhelming humanitarian necessity, military intervention to strike specific targets with the aim of deterring and disrupting further such attacks would be necessary and proportionate and therefore legally justifiable.

Even Annan had argued that when the Council is deadlocked over the use of force to relieve a humanitarian calamity, as in the case of Kosovo in 1999, it may be morally, if not legally, justifiable to act outside the UN Charter.

His decision to clear tents and sleeping bags out of Zuccotti Park, the focal point of the protests, and have the area cleaned, was justifiable legally.

As expressed by Wigney J (para 92) 'in circumstances where reasonable minds might differ about the outcome of, or justification for, the exercise of power, or where the outcome falls within the range of legally and factually justifiable outcomes, the exercise of power is not legally unreasonable simply because the Court disagrees, even emphatically, with the outcome or justification.'.

This is, of course, not to say that (as argued above) certain one-off cases of torturing the guilty might not be both morally justifiable and legally excusable (or otherwise be able to avail themselves of mitigating circumstances).

As long as most people can legally get what they consider justifiable, they will report law-breakers to authorities.

Aid donors, meanwhile, are urging the government to narrow the scope of what sorts of property it may legally seize for development.Claiming land for infrastructure projects is often justifiable, and Vietnam badly needs better ports and roads.