Sentence examples for roughly justified from inspiring English sources

Though not in the least admirable, Fowler rises, if one may use such a word, to an act of betrayal that is ugly but roughly justified, however mixed the motives.

Third, the entry assumes that moral knowledge entails (roughly) justified true moral belief.

BonJour outlines four traditional assumptions about knowledge, understood as roughly justified true belief, which he "broadly" endorses (BonJour 2010: 58 9).

But he essentially argues that these firms know what they need, know how to find it, and that explains and roughly justifies the system, with some alterations, Rivera describes.

Justification is thus closed over these four steps; roughly, to justify a practice of punishment if not everywhere then at least in a liberal constitutional democracy it is necessary and sufficient to carry out these four tasks.

The board and the consultant they hired ― Mike Malone, a supporter of Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, who's currently Georgia secretary of state ― justified closing roughly 80percentt of their polling places by arguing the sites were not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

At a time when Mr. Obama is vowing to reduce sky-high deficits, he must make the case that the price tag — roughly $1 million per soldier — is justified.

Some concerns are justified.

In general, cultivating trust is only morally wise if trusting would be wise in the circumstances, which in turn would depend on whether factors are present that roughly indicate that trust would be justified.

Recent surveys have shown that torture has the support of roughly two-thirds of the US population: 82% of Republicans and 53% of Democrats believe it is justified at least some of the time.

If justified choice permits her to choose either of two alternatives when they are roughly equal or on a par, then she would be justified in choosing the slightly worse legal career.