In sharp contrast, the State Department has sounded justifiable alarm over discrimination or persecution of Christians amidst the political convulsions of Arab Spring.
This occurs when someone tries to teach you something you don't agree with, but try to make it sound more justifiable in some way.
It's easy to see how this tendency helps to reinforce the status of high-end vineyards: spending hundreds of dollars on a vintage with aromas of "leather," "eucalyptus," and "Japanese maple" sounds more justifiable than splurging on one with flavors of "canned olives with black pepper".
Large-scale, preventive medical enterprises can hardly be regarded as scientifically sound and ethically justifiable, unless issues of practical feasibility, sustainability and social determinants of health are considered.
Dangerous Liaison Russia's decision to cement a new multibillion-dollar deal on arms and nuclear technology with Iran has sounded bells of justifiable alarm in Washington.
At first, that sounds like a justifiable reaction.
Eckhardt Rehberg, the budget policy spokesman of the Christian Democratic Union, told Reuters: "The issue of reparations is politically and legally closed, in our opinion … The figure of €278.7bn of so-called war debts is neither justifiable nor sound".
It sounds burdensome and not justifiable to me.
Such detailed public engagement would appear essential if sound, well-informed and morally justifiable decisions are to be made regarding research or development of climate engineering.
In a field with broad societal and environmental implications that generates substantial public interest and concern, especially when the research is publicly funded, investigators must take extra precautions to ensure that their work is not only scientifically justifiable but also ethically sound.
