Sentence examples for unjustifiable act from inspiring English sources

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But after a short conversation in which it was pointed out that Henri's cheerful surrender of Lise to the American G.I. Jerry Mulligan in the film seems an unjustifiable act of romantic generosity without such an explanation, Caron nodded.

Opponents of interventionism argue that interfering with another country's policies and actions can never be right, regardless of the aggressor's motivations, and that a country's imposing its will on another is an unjustifiable act of violence.

The Lula Institute described the raids and detentions as an "affront to the country and the rule of law" and accused the Lava Jato prosecutors of an "arbitrary, illegal and unjustifiable" act.

Antonio Brufau, the president of Repsol, said it would challenge what he called "an illegal and unjustifiable act" in international courts, asserting that the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had deliberately threatened Repsol over recent months to depress its stock price ahead of an expropriation.

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These unjustifiable acts are not only morally repugnant; they are also counterproductive.

"The full truth must come out about these unjustifiable acts," Chirac said in 2001.

The voices of mainstream Muslims condemning these unjustifiable acts are often drowned out by the inflammatory rhetoric of those same terrorists.

Yet I'd be blind not to acknowledge that there is a portion of this generation so angry, so apparently disaffected, they feel driven or able to commit unjustifiable acts of anarchy and, in most cases, straightforward crime.

"We as a community and city cannot tolerate these senseless and unjustifiable acts of gun violence," Mr. Bing, who visited the victims in the hospital, said in a statement.

Yesterday the defence minister, Alain Richard, also reiterated the government's opposition to any formal act of repentance, saying "unjustifiable acts" were committed by both sides and that it was "not up to politicians today to distribute good and bad marks in a hasty fashion".

By contrast, active (voluntary) euthanasia is said to be morally impermissible because it requires an unjustifiable intentional act of killing in order to satisfy the patient's request (cf., for example, Finnis, 1995; Keown in Jackson and Keown 2012).

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