Sentence examples for that could be justified from inspiring English sources

"It was a case that could be justified.

Or to put it another way: those that could be justified and those that could not.

And it would restrict mortgages with future monthly payments beyond those that could be justified by a borrower's projected earnings.

It's just that he had only one answer to everything, which was to persist in art that could be justified solely by joy.

Sometimes it involved covert surveillance, even though it was not always for reasons that could be justified in the public interest.

At that price, the company was valued at $7 billion -- a phenomenal valuation that could be justified only by the assumption of skyrocketing growth for years to come.

Someone who believed that "torture is wrong", for example, would not be persuaded that waterboarding could be justified if it helped to "maintain the state" or preserve the common good, since to believe "torture is wrong" means that you think torture is in principle wrong whatever it achieves.

Even if (EA2) is exactly what Socrates meant, some philosophers would argue that one could be justified in believing a proposition, but not realize that she is justified.

In keeping with the legal and moral doctrine of the time Las Casas believed that slavery could be justified if it was the result of Just War, and at the time he assumed that the enslavement of Africans was justified.

In July he denounced the idea, spreading in Republican circles, that emancipation could be justified as a military necessity.

Until recently that reticence could be justified by the absence of much-needed new engines for smaller, single-aisle planes.