Sentence examples for looks justifiable from inspiring English sources

The 30 percent premium Barrick is offering Equinox shareholders looks justifiable only if the market is "understating" copper assumptions as much as Barrick's boss, Aaron Regent, says it is.

Bond buyers wanted twice as much as the £800m-worth ($1.5 billion) of mortgage-backed bonds on offer and blithely accepted a lower rate of interest than they had demanded on similar bonds sold by the firm last June.At first glance, such enthusiasm for subprime lending in Britain (where it is tastefully called "non-conforming" or "adverse-credit" lending) looks justifiable.

And considering it claims a very low retention rate of around 95% (it churns, or loses, about 5% of its customers a month) that cost looks justifiable.

Two degrees, says Johan Rockström, director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, "contains significant risks for societies everywhere; 1.5 looks much more scientifically justifiable".

Let's see what "justifiable homicide" looks like in the United States.

Given the risk that Chicago might fail to become a great metropolis, values immediately after the crash look low but justifiable.

For the US, this might look like a justifiable punt, and better than the prospect of having to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.

But we should be careful to rush to judgment as often, "what looks on paper like a justifiable deportation often masks the nuances of individual hardships and structural problems that limit immigrants' ability to press their legal cases".

I felt that under certain circumstances it was justifiable — like looking for terrorists.

When I see a number that represents 461 dead people - dead human beings - I wonder what all of those "justifiable homicides" looked like?

(Johnson 1981, p. 77) also looks at the conclusions drawn based on statistics with much doubt, and argues that the results based on statistics are not justifiable because statistics are data and that 'valid conclusions can only be reached by process of argument.'.