Sentence examples for not a justifiable from inspiring English sources

"Competitive fervor is not a justifiable ethical value," said Bob Steele, an ethicist at the Poynter Institute in Florida.

Not because there is not a justifiable reason for being there, but because we have neither a strategy nor a tactic that is working.

The operation was "not a justifiable response to a lethal attack by republican paramilitaries but instead soldiers opening fire unjustifiably," the report said.

Just like the sports car driver who claims that other cars on the highway were also speeding but the officer only stopped him, the fact that others who might have violated the law have not been charged is not a justifiable basis to defend a lawsuit.

"A mailshot would cost up to £30m, which in the current economic climate is not a justifiable expense.

"I'm convinced due to the results of my initial investigation that this is not a justifiable homicide, this is in fact an execution," attorney Steven Lerman said in an interview.

Almost six years later, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday that prior salary isn't a justifiable reason for pay discrimination.

I'm not saying you don't have a justifiable grievance, but the minute you start referring to divorce as "an offer" you'll see the hackles rising on many of this column's female readership and even on a few of the men.

Tied to this idea was the notion that war to defend Christendom was not only a justifiable undertaking but a holy work and therefore pleasing to God.

"Even if the three arrested women did take part in the protest," Amnesty said on Thursday, "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities – the detention on the serious criminal charge of hooliganism – would not be a justifiable response to the peaceful – if, to many, offensive – expression of their political beliefs.

For Beck to have prevailed in the case, the WIPO court would have had to have ruled in Beck's favor on three issues: that the domain name could be mistaken for the mark "Glenn Beck"; that Eiland-Hall did not have a justifiable stake in the name, and that the domain name was "bad faith".