437 examples of justifiable in sentences

The keywordMorocco!" "What the deuce has Morocco" Captain Alec began, with justifiable impatience.

The desire of longevity appears to be inherent in all animated nature, and particularly in the human race; it is intimately cherished by us, through the whole duration of our existence, and is frequently supported and strengthened, not only by justifiable means, but also by various kinds of collusion.

The new plutocratic conception, which marks the policy of a section of the Entente, is not lasting, and the people have a justifiable diffidence towards it.

Bulgaria has had rather less loss, and although large tracts of Bulgarian territory have been given without any justifiable motive to Greece and Jugo-Slavia, and although all outlet on the Aegean has been taken from her by assigning to Greece lands which she cannot maintain, on the whole Bulgaria, after the Treaty of Neuilly, has less sharp sufferings than the other conquered countries.

But this attempt at compromise, this midway abortion of the natural growth of an idea, even were it justifiable as sometimes happens when legitimate issues are obscured through failure of evidence, repels the great multitude of religious thinkers who are not otherwise sufficiently drawn towards Catholicism to care to examine these claims.

Of course it excited a good deal of a natural and justifiable curiosity and surprise in the trained and intelligent, for John Effingham had passed for a confirmed bachelor; but they were generally content to suffer a family to have feelings and incidents that were not to be paraded before a neighbourhood.

I will not say that such a step may not be sometimes justifiable.

It is right and justifiable that he should have this praise, and it will be an aid to his spiritual development, if bestowed with discrimination.

And it was especially unfortunate that the President considered the formation of the League in accordance with the provisions of the Covenant to be superior to every other consideration and that to accomplish this object almost any sacrifice would be justifiable.

I appreciate your Honor's careful scrutiny of the matter before making an appointment; but, so long as we do not recognize the boy as Robert Burnham's son, it would hardly be justifiable for us to interfere in the simple appointment of a guardian for him.

Then what was oppression yesterday is justifiable defence to-day; fanaticism becomes logic; and credulity and pliant submission get, in two centuries, to be deference to the venerable opinion of our fathers!

" "Surely, Sigismund, there is something justifiable in the sentiment of desiring to belong to the good and noble!"

but what is natural and justifiable in thy reserve.

Had this been an established government, with its power extending by the consent of the people over the whole of Mexico, a resort to hostilities against it would have been quite justifiable, and, indeed, necessary.

It may or it may not be a justifiable revolution, but still it is revolution.

Looney, it is true, developed a very sore head, but the doctor declared there was nothing contagious about it; at which neglect of scientific precaution Clem expressed justifiable disgust.

This they said was so well exhibited by the Negroes' lack of wisdom and of goodness that continued heathenism of the race was justifiable.

We could not go to a mosque or the museum without finding them lying in wait for us, until we became so exasperated that homicide would have been justifiable.

I, for one, would prefer that any violence, however justifiable, should take place without my active intervention.

" The Editor of the "New Orleans Bee," in his paper, Oct 25, 1837, says: "We remark with regret the frightful list of homicides, whether justifiable or not, that are daily committed in New Orleans.

" The "N.O. Bee" thus gives the conclusion of the matter: "Judge James was tried and acquitted, the death of Binford being regarded as an act of justifiable homicide.

As you may very naturally suppose, great excitement prevails here, and Mr. B.F. Thomas regrets the fatal catastrophe as much as any one else, but believes from all the circumstances that he was justifiable in what he did, although he would be as far from doing such an act when cool and deliberate as any man whatever.

" Everyone will, within certain limits, admit that the endeavours to diminish the dangers of war and to mitigate the sufferings which war entails are justifiable.

That would have set up justifiable claims for the future.]

Yet it is hardly to be supposed, that any teacher will judge them all to be alike justifiable, or feel no interest in the questions which have been raised about them.

437 examples of  justifiable  in sentences