Sentence examples for whether it is justified from inspiring English sources

But merely establishing that a group has the right to secede does not settle whether it is justified in using force to achieve its goal of independent statehood.

Our correspondents ask whether it is justified.

Such design/development project costs the company and a decision is to be taken whether it is justified.

The policy of locking people up indefinitely, without carefully considering whether it is justified in the individual case, is unlawful under Australian law.

When it comes to ascertaining whether it is justified, one major question comes to the fore: will it work to make us safer?

As a counter question one can ask whether it is justified from the perspective of Finnish taxpayers not to exploit the enormous commercial potential which Finnish biomedical research has produced during the past years?

In the classified version of a National Intelligence Estimate prepared by intelligence agencies last fall, the allegation about Iraq's activities in the African nation of Niger was included along with a footnote that said the State Department had its doubts about whether it was justified by the evidence.

For example, one may know that the law of ancient Athens included the punishment of ostracism without knowing whether it was justified, because one does not know enough about its effects, about the social context, and so forth.

Q: You can certainly inform or think whether it was justified.

I have publicly supported an investigation by the terrorism adviser to ascertain whether it was justified.

And once force is used the department does a poor job of investigating whether it was justified.