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Example sentences for: justified

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The liberal Guardian , however, said that the bombing would only be justified if it led to the self-determination of the Iraqi people.
Killing could be morally justified, as long as it was Romans attacking barbarians.
Frank Rich, in his Kevorkian column, is worried too, but decides that the show was justified by its prompting of honest debate on a topic now more shrouded than oral sex.
The experience of the previous week, he wrote, "has only confirmed the importance of defining a clearly articulated rationale for military action" that was effective as well as justified.
rebel--someone who could have justified his thieving on all sorts of grounds, from contempt for the repressive, hypocritical police force to contempt for the repressive, hypocritical church.