Example collocations logo

Justified in sentence

449 examples of Justified in a sentence

So those who believe that the removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s government was justified have a point.
Such a federal state can be justified by claiming that the moral substance of traditional nation states has been deeply compromised by past belligerence, or as a practical preventive measure to keep the potential of new nationalist passions in check.
And, just this October, remembering the victims of Stalin, Medvedev wrote in his blog (itself a sign meant to convey how up-to-date he is), “We can hear voices saying that those numerous deaths were justified by some supreme goals of the state.
For punishment of systematic, historical human rights crimes as a matter of government policy is only morally justified if it is designed to protect society from greater evils in the future.
PRINCETON – When President Donald Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, he justified the move by saying “the bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States.”
This is why, until recently, wars could be justified only if they were fought in self-defense, or in defense of allied nations.
Third parties are justified in rejecting the risks that would be imposed upon them.
Perhaps the reason was ideology: we were too wedded to the idea that markets are efficient, market participants are rational, and high prices are justified by economic fundamentals.
Fiscal stimulus in Europe may still be justified, but structural rigidity will lower its impact on long-term growth.
In the Machiavellian tradition, lying is sometimes justified by reference to the higher needs of political statecraft, and sometimes by the claim that the state, as an embodiment of the public good, represents a higher level of morality.
Did German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg have to tell the truth about the massive plagiarism that pervaded his doctoral thesis, or could a lie be justified because he was performing an important government job?
Or were conservative US anti-abortionists justified in sending actors with a false story into the offices of Planned Parenthood in order to discredit their opponents?
No country – including Greece – should expect to be offered debt relief on a silver platter; relief must be earned and justified by real reforms that restore growth, to the benefit of both debtor and creditor.
More common is the view that we are justified in eating meat, as long as the animals have a decent life before they are killed.
But only the first 5% of their wealth can be justified as an economic incentive to encourage entrepreneurship and enterprise.
But as a sovereign country, China is justified in pursuing the policies that it sees fit, at least until evidence emerges that its own people object to the course it has charted for itself.
And, while this may seem justified by a noble goal, such “policy by panic” tactics rarely work, and often backfire.
These policies, moreover, are increasingly justified by assertions that China has policy options not available in Western economies.
Europe’s fear of contagion is justified, because the Brexit referendum’s outcome has transformed the politics of EU fragmentation.
The CIA’s role has never been explained or justified.
But while monetary and fiscal expansion was justified at the time to stop a panic, these policies have not been curtailed since.
The truth is that much of the criticism leveled at Europe is justified and is shown to be justified now.
Such transfers of wealth might be justified as a one-time historic bargain, in which young and old share the burden of transition.
President Barack Obama has repeatedly justified his refusal to use force in Syria, other than against the Islamic State (ISIS), in terms of avoiding another Iraq.
Transforming a dictatorship into a democracy in a country that has never known democracy and lacked the economic and civic resources to sustain it was at least a generation-long endeavor (though neither the US nor the UK government initially justified the intervention on these grounds).
The British minister responsible for the test justified the idea by claiming that “the simple act of taking one’s turn is one of the things that holds our country together.
To some extent, tax cuts will be justified with overly optimistic projections regarding their impact on economic growth, as was done under President George W. Bush, with generally disastrous effects.
For a long time, that cynical response seemed to be justified.
Of course, when the financial crisis erupted in full force in 2008, following the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the ECB’s interventions were justified.
These could be justified during the recession of 2008-2009, but now they have become counter-productive, because they undermine the markets’ controlling function.
BackNext