Sentence examples for proportionate and justified from inspiring English sources

It's got to be legal and obviously proportionate and justified.

Hacking into the tax system, while deeply regrettable, is proportionate and justified.

We must be vigilant to ensure that the cost to liberty of this "protection" is proportionate and justified by the evidence base.

Ms Ellison said rules to enforce plain packaging were "a proportionate and justified response to the considerable public health harm" that results from tobacco.

Announcing the government's decision to put the plans to a vote at the beginning of the year, the health minister Jane Ellison said plain packaging was a "proportionate and justified response" because of the health risks associated with smoking.

The review of the Metropolitan police's handling of the rape allegation concluded that "any reasonable investigator could properly conclude that the allegations made by the complainant were far from fanciful and continued to be proportionate and justified".

A review of a separate allegation that Brittan raped a 19-year-old female student in his central London flat in 1967 has concluded that the police investigation was "necessary, proportionate and fully justified".

In his press conference, Netanyahu feigned sadness for the loss of life while placing the blame squarely on Hamas: They made us do it; they wanted to increase the number of dead, so they could use it against us; our actions were proportionate, and the justified response of a civilized victim nation fighting against evil.

We do so because we believe this is justified, proportionate and necessary in the face of catastrophic climate change, and that the negative consequences of our actions are more purposeful than the consequences of continued inaction.

A statement from the Home Office said Mr Rennison would develop a new code of practice to "empower the public to shine a light on those who operate camera systems in public places, challenging them to show the use of these systems is justified, proportionate and effective".

"The school is confident that its safeguarding policies and the work of the professionals in the operation of these policies are proportionate, justified and place the wellbeing of the child to the fore.