Sentence examples for we were justified from inspiring English sources

"We were justified under the circumstances".

Even if we were justified in removing Sadaam from power, we certainly ought not to now be involved in how the people of Iraq resolve their political differences.

Carlile had stated "we were justified in making arrests and that there was a compelling case for those arrests to be made.

"There's always been a belief that we were justified in our intervention in Afghanistan and have to give it time," he said.

The fact that the concept was taken up, but not the terminology, suggests that we were justified in not delving further into Exchange Structure analysis with these first-year PSTs.

Drop Your Justifications Our tendency is take things personally, so personally that our egos and minds convince us that we were justified in acting in a way that hurt another person.

McKiernan, who said the agency disputed much of the audit, said the report "did not have any great influence on what we're doing; we always felt we were justifying the costs".

To the question, "Why do we engage in communication?," we can answer, "Because we are justified in thinking that we can thereby produce in each other justified beliefs and to provide justifications for engaging in action".

Soon, it seems, we are justified.

He sought to distinguish between what we take comfort from in believing and what we are justified in believing.

In Mill's view, we are justified in stopping him only to make sure that he is aware of the danger.