"Justifiable" means that something can be defended or explained based on acceptable reasons or evidence.
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Employees can get fired from their jobs for
justifiable reasons such as insubordination, misconduct, and poor performance.
Like the Pope, the bishops do not rule out capital punishment altogether, but they say that it is not
justifiable as practiced in the United States today.
The Court found the measure not
justifiable on grounds of the public interest.
The
only justifiable use of violence is in self defense, all other reasons can be considered criminal and unjustifiable by the law.
While this conclusion seems
justifiable if not self - evident, I am less sure about the public / private law distinction that Justice Simpson relies upon to support his conclusion, since an argument about competing property claims is perhaps best characterized as a private law argument.
For most landlords, property management is an issue they put upon themselves —
with justifiable reasons.
Robert Toutkoushian, executive director of the University of New Hampshire Office of Policy Analysis, says that in his studies of national data, even when he controlled for what might be considered
justifiable causes of the difference — such as years of experience, the highest degree earned, years of seniority, and departmental affiliation — an 8 % gap still remained.
In a time of
justifiable concern about terrorism, Palahniuk has written a hilarious novel about a terrorist cell made up of foreign - exchange students.
Chocolate for breakfast is also totally
justifiable when you wake up feeling bummed — those cocoa flavanols to help you think clearly and prevent stress from hijacking your day right out of the gate.
Even if the discounts persist, those discounts
seem justifiable only for stock market reasons, and seem in no way justified by underlying business value considerations.
It's
totally justifiable if you hoard these in the back of your fridge so that no one else steals them.
As I said, there are
perfectly justifiable reasons for American Express to change the information it presents.
The trial court had determined that the Buyers could not claim
justifiable reliance because the Buyers were aware of the possibility for flooding on the property.
This bull market was never
justifiable based on so - called fundamentals — dividend yields and earnings potential.
Ummm... i didn't really know if i should put this up with books like «SnowFlake Secrets» and «The Love Machine» (i think the only
justifiable use of that Title is for a Tom Jones biography).
1 God would prevent evil unless there was a morally justiable reason serving the greater good 2 Evil exists 3 God has a
morally justifiable reason that serves the greater for allowing evil
That night the news showed a woman from Staten Island crying out with
justifiable anger that her family, her neighborhood had been abandoned.
Though Zelda games are sometimes criticised for reusing much of the same set of items from game to game, the fact is that new uses for old items come up all the time, perpetuating the Zelda inventory tradition in a
completely justifiable way.
So, to get around that, you call us «denialists» instead, and then defend this name - calling as
justifiable because, well, that's what we are.
He said the universities were not
making justifiable utility of funds being released to them by the Federal Government, a situation, which he pointed has always inhibited learning and research.
They embrace change so quickly that their decisions will never be totally
justifiable by the numbers.
«The use of nonhuman oocytes for SCNT is currently the only
ethically justifiable option given the large numbers of eggs required to derive cloned human stem cell lines,» he said.
Many congregations take
justifiable pride in the bricks and mortar that symbolize generations of faithfulness in a given location.
And it's that spirit of cussed resilience — tinged with
justifiable fear — which I think best captures the mood of this conference.
In one place he is quoted as acknowledging that unchastity on the woman's part may be
considered justifiable grounds, but he is clearly not happy about it (Matthew 5:31 - 32 Mark 10:2 - 9).
I didn't know enough about restaurants, or fish, or butchering fish to know, without being told, just how good he is... but I can always tell when someone seems to be right where he or she wants to be,
taking justifiable pride in knowing that they do what they do incredibly well.
Here in America, it's new starting price is a high but
justifiable $ 151,000.
In a metropolis where someone making eye contact on the subway is grounds for
justifiable homicide, you might already assume that New Yorkers are busy suing each other.
I think that a more
scientifically justifiable statement, at least for the U.S. and extratropical land areas is that daily weather noise continues to drum out the siren call of climate change on local, weather scales.
Maybe the latter should be regarded as the questionable but
justifiable choice of a formerly Confederate state.
The more I try to find some kind of
justifiable meaning and relevance, the more I find The Shape of Water a loopy, lunkheaded load of drivel.
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