Sentences with phrase «felt justified»

When I saved $ 500, I felt justified in indulging in a weekend getaway.

It was not clear whether the caterer was aware that some recipes for commercially available ras malai included eggs but the Court of Appeal felt justified in inferring that he was aware of the risk [41], supporting the finding that his omission to check the ingredients was culpable.

Having said what I have above I still tend to think that Professor Mann felt justified in this suggestion, no doubt by his and his colleauges» view of the predominant consensus.

He claimed to have broken this rule only twice — with Otto von Bismarck, the architect of German unification, and Nicholas Ignatieff, a Russian adventurer and spy — and felt justified in doing so because the former «was a swine» and the latter «a pretty hard man» if not an arch-villain.

Do you think they felt justified in ignoring her warnings?

But due to the input of the terrific people in the film, I felt justified in doing what I was doing.»

Because it is often perceived as a luxury, district leaders haven't felt justified in spending dollars towards their own professional growth.

Rather than gratuitous, it felt justified, and far from glorification.

But, yeah, when I first read about him... I felt justified in how I was writing Clive.

I got some problems with the incessant whining of Dirk G. this year... at first it felt justified, but it does outstretch way too long and became very annoying.

You felt justified, righteous; worried and sure that your partner was in the wrong.

It was important for us to have a lasting record of the day, we wanted a photographer whose images we admired, so we felt it justified a large chunk of our budget, we looked at several photographers online and after initial inquiries it was obvious that Rachel Joyce was the one for us.

Since it's from her Everyday Shop, it's under $ 100 so totally I felt justified.

She'd called to tell me that she was leaving my step - father for a man she'd met online and so I felt justified in attacking her with the question she never wanted to have asked.

He said he felt justified in staying away last night because he had «learned there weren't going to be any votes and practically no session.»

And, in this thinking I felt justified when he hammered in a UEFA Champions League hat trick against Galatasaray in a 4 - 1 victory and when he scored the winning goal to knock out Manchester United in the quarter - finals of the FA Cup at Old Trafford.

For this reason they felt justified in supporting both.

«9 An awareness of sin is a first step in the expectation of a Christ; thus Niebuhr felt justified in emphasizing sin first.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

Back then, most investors felt justified basing many dotcom companies» valuations on a discounted cash flow model that ran out a decade or longer.

But Steinhafel may have felt justified in making such a bold move.

Admittedly, this kind of candor can be awkward for those of us who grew up not talking about money — but the reality is that today's skilled workers feel justified in seeking out compensation information.

Identify in advance what success will look like and when you can feel justified closing your computer and enjoying the rest of the day.

«Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality; it eats away at your ability to trust yourself and inevitably disables you from feeling justified in calling out abuse and mistreatment.»

«A government that feels justified in raising the minimum wage high enough to hurt some companies may soon feel justified in raising it high enough to affect your company.»

After all, ethical rules are different in adversarial situations, and it might well be argued that in the highly - regulated world of commerce, businesses should feel justified in helping themselves to whatever strategies aren't specifically outlawed.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

What they are threatened by are the actions and atatudes [deliberate typo due to ridiculous moderation AI] of those who do profess belief in those deities, and feel justified by their beliefs and holy books to discriminate against those of differing beliefs.

The only thing a deity is needed for is to make the guilty feel justified.

They both feel justified in using power to control the lives of others, whether it be through political or physical violence.

I'm glad you admit that the whole point of your coming here is to start a thread where you feel justified in being as big of a dick as you can by mere virtue of having starting the thread.

How do you feel justified in telling people that they can not dissent against unjust behavior?

But even when we do feel justified in criticizing those within the church, Paul is not providing a license for us to do them bodily harm, or even to slander them to others.

You have to tell yourself that so you can feel justified in your unfounded hatred and bigotry.

It's easy in our anger to feel justified by withholding forgiveness from the parent that mistreated us.

Despite their God's commands to be humble, they still are certain of their own special place in the Creator's eyes and therefore feel justified in looking down on everyone else.

Given these happy parallels between Jesus» teachings and our best modern sensitivities and insights, why is it that a careful reading of Jesus ethical instructions does not leave us feeling justified?

We take our inhuman behavior; we bless it with religious phrases and religious jargon; then we beat on one another in the name of God so that Catholics and Protestants feel justified in killing each other in Ireland, and Christians and Moslems do likewise in Lebanon.

When the opinion of the conservative Christian becomes more important than the need of the person in their community, then they can feel justified in their actions and never have to confront their fears.

You have to say that so you can feel justified in your unfounded prejudice and bigotry.

If so, is there ANYTHING that child could do that was so evil that you would feel justified in keeping them locked in your basement, torturing them constantly, for the rest of their lives?

They just like to feel justified in doing it by labelling their victims as «sinners» first.

Modern man has elevated himself to parity with God and now feels justified in accusing God of getting it wrong.

Without the «rosy glasses» of faith, the sceptic can feel justified in ignoring the possibility of God having entered our world as a human being.

If you ban free speech against Islam then Christians and others will feel justified in killing people as well when they are disrespected and insulted.

Because he believes that both the Bible and the orthodox tradition of the church support inerrancy, Lindsell feels justified in denying the term «evangelical» to those who reject this doctrine.

«I am not an orthodox Christian,» he said, «but the Christian tradition is so much a part of our life, of my life, and Christ is to me so commanding a figure who so released all that I care most for that I feel justified in asserting a Christian service which should not play up personal immortality» (Swanberg, p. 407)

Now for all those who feel justified to toss the first stone... look in the mirror because as Paul said to Peter «is that ham I smell on your breath»

Then, based on this distorted knowledge, we feel justified in condemning and criticizing these people and their beliefs.

So when one Christian accuses a church leader of doing something evil or wrong, the pastor often feels justified in retorting the same way Jesus did, and accuses his accusers of committing a sin against the Holy Spirit.