Sentence examples for of a justifiable from inspiring English sources

It does not condemn Israel's conquest, for the good reason that most western powers at that time thought it the result of a justifiable pre-emptive war.

The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of this illicitness has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of a justifiable fear, perhaps, that no woman alive would watch otherwise.

But it is right to retain a residual fragment of provocation where really exceptional circumstances make a jury accept that a defendant killed after losing control because of a justifiable sense of being seriously wronged.

Those policies, stressing prevention at the expense of the rule of law, grew out of a justifiable desire to find a way to hold and interrogate suspected combatants the White House was not ready to charge.

What is at stake in these arguments is "the problem of the criterion"—i.e., the problem of determining a justifiable standard against which to measure the worth or validity of judgments, or claims to knowledge.

Part of the problem, of course, is that one's audience at first is mainly other adolescents, and adolescent concerns are narrow and constricted extravagantly by the weight of the (often forbidding) mystery that adolescents sense lies ahead of them — the task of finding a place in the world, of growing older, of being a good partner and perhaps a parent, of living a justifiable life.

She said the cancellation of some policies was a justifiable result of the law.

And with that kind of pressure "comes a justifiable concern about burnout and about whether the body can continue to perform as it has been performing," May says.

Alternatively, put Cadbury's forward earnings on a multiple of 15.5 times — a justifiable premium to the market given Cadbury's double-digit compound earnings growth ahead — and it's worth 682 pence on its own.

Savings versus repayment The onus is on the student to repay the loan and severe penalties can be imposed if you try to wriggle out of it without a justifiable reason.

This is a shamelessly promotional post, but it's nothing to be ashamed of — rather, its subject is a justifiable source of pride for all concerned, starting with this very magazine, the initial springboard of the work in question.