Sentence examples for which would be justified from inspiring English sources

And a contribution might help Goldman ward off the alternative: serious calls for a windfall tax on bonuses, which would be justified since the profits they are based on are in large part the result of government efforts.

On the other hand, truncation means that the survival experience of older patients is neglected, which would be justified only if the proportion of these patients is very small.

In saying such wills are free from a practical point of view, he is saying that in engaging in practical endeavors — trying to decide what to do, what to hold oneself and others responsible for, and so on — one is justified in holding oneself to all of the principles to which one would be justified in holding wills that are autonomous free wills.

(For that matter, I don't recall any uproar about Zuckerman being 71 at the time, which Laura wouldGery would be justified in feeling quite bitter about).

This is the mechanism by which I would be justified, for example, in anticipating the afterlife, just in case at the resurrection there will be someone to whom my present consciousness extends.

Regardless of which type of theory one embraces, one would also need an account of the conditions under which the state would be justified in using force to block secession.

His remarks contrasted yesterday with those of his Tory "shadow", Chris Grayling, who said that there might be circumstances in which a householder would be justified in killing a burglar.

And then one tells a story about why it would be sensible for individuals to appropriate land and other resources for their personal use and about the conditions under which such appropriations would be justified.

Mr. Chirac made clear he detested the Bush doctrine, which said the United States would be justified in using pre-emptive force.

She takes a dim view of American military intervention, particularly for humanitarian reasons, but declines to specify the circumstances in which the use of force would be justified.

Earlier this year it was reported that the Obama administration was in the process of drawing up a formal rulebook setting out the circumstances in which targeted assassinations by drones would be justified.