Sentence examples for was not justification from inspiring English sources

The prosecutor, Howard Jackson, an assistant district attorney, argued that being picked on or bullied was not justification for murder.

"If it was just pulling through future demand, that might help a tiny bit, because we need that activity now more than a year from now, but I'm guessing that was not justification for the incentive".

Let me be clear: to explain is not to excuse; explication is not justification.

"Disappointment in a result is not justification for taking shots like that," he said.

"Changes in market capitalisation alone are not justification for salary increases as responsibilities may not have increased.

The fact that we have a legislative disagreement with Walker is not justification for this recall.'" If the polls are correct, Mr. Walker will win tonight.

… The issue here is not justification (very few people would view attacks on soldiers in a shopping mall parking lot to be justified).

"I feel we need to muster the support of our patients and lobby both Roche and the F.D.A. Compromising the Phase III trial is not justification for withholding an effective drug from dying patients".

But Google would not take them down, claiming that reviews posted on Google+ fall under freedom of speech and that reviews being negative or anonymous are not justification enough to take them down.

There are hardly any theories explaining the driving factors for intermarriage for natives, so that there is not justification why an ethnicity-gender ratio like this should determine intermarriage choice among natives31.

Although it is often noted that explanation is not justification, the motive to eliminate, exclude, and differentiate on the basis of human differences remains prominent in the writings of evolutionary psychologists and ethicists.