justifiable

How To Use justifiable In A Sentence

• Taxes must be adequate to raise a revenue sufficient to meet those federal expenditures which are truly advantageous to the general welfare, to maintain justifiable confidence in the soundness of the dollar, and to underwrite the safety of the federal debt as an investment. As The Allies Face The Future
• The researchers were regarded by some people as the police, asking awkward but justifiable questions. Times, Sunday Times
• Sensible and justifiable decisions, properly communicated would raise morale rather than diminish it.
• The Board noted with concern the continuing global disparities in the actual availability and the unjustifiable discrepancies in the consumption of important licit narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in different regions.
• Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
• There are justifiable concerns about the fees. Times, Sunday Times
• It is perfectly justifiable for him to seek redress - and he intends to do so with vigour. Times, Sunday Times
• Critics say it is the product of unabashed and unjustifiable price gouging. Times, Sunday Times
• She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
• It was a ‘blatant, unjustifiable waste of ratepayers' money to spend this much on lawyers ’, she said.