How To Use Justification In A Sentence

But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
Is there a justification for retaining the word in literature from the past, when its use would have reflected common parlance?
Long grassers drinking and partying habits are used as justification for this persecution.
This is without justification either ancient or modern. The Times Literary Supplement
She was arrested entirely without justification.

There is no justification for allowing illegal traders in open spaces other than the markets.
But these considerations cannot be a justification for avoiding substantive political reform. Times, Sunday Times
Education may enhance the ability to produce justifications, rather than eliminate racism toutcourt.
If anybody's got a persuasive argument in favour of the blasted thing I'll give it a hearing, but I've yet to hear one that doesn't sound like a justification for faffing about instead of working. Archive 2009-06-01
The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the newspaper today.
But the thing that really bugs me about Cheney's quote (again, he said, regarding torture, that: "The fact of the matter is the Justice Department reviewed all those allegations several years ago.") is that in using the Justice Department as justification, he brings to mind the old story used to define the Yiddish word chutzpah: Someone who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. Mitchell Bard: Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture
She had not given him the slightest justification for thinking she was interested in him.
One source offered up the following justification, "Colin drinks, he smokes, he womanizes. Cinematical
But then the county redrew school boundaries and moved sixth-graders to local middle schools, lowering enrollment projections and eliminating the justification to build the new school. Bowie schools will remain open
At the expressive level, responses are unanalyzed expressions or feelings, which, in themselves, do not constitute any kind of justification or reason for the response.
Our literary editor has already offered her eloquent justification. Times, Sunday Times
One of several reasons this makes me a bit huffy is that it's not at all evident (far from it!) that what an Evangelical such as Colson believes about justification, faith, and charity is what Luther believed. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
He said that the report commissioned by the Government had not found any justification to ban the sport outright and that a joint committee had recently indicated such a ban would be in contravention of human rights laws.
Furthermore, one wonders why this causal relation must remain within the limits of rational justification. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people (well not all of them anyway) but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.
The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation.
This concern was also used as a justification for focusing the remit of the board on victims of crimes of violence. Victimology - the victim and the criminal justice process
Unfortunately, the proposed code appears to be little more than another exercise in self-justification by the commission.
The story is part love story, part comedy of self-justification, and part a chronicle of an appalling crime.
Arthur reckoned with some justification that he had had ‘a charmed life.’
Less controversial examples could be cited in justification of the right to intervene.
The arch is a fashionable solution just now, and there is reasonable engineering justification.
That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
I've never heard any really compelling justification as to why a lunar outpost is a more cost effective means of developing the technology needed to go to Mars. Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch
That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
This is discriminatory: to discriminate against members of a group of people just is to treat them disadvantageously compared to members of other groups, when there's no adequate justification for doing so.
I could intellectualise, of course I could, tracing influences and references and justifications.
With hardly a credible debate on the rationale and justification of rapid disinvestment, some of the most profitable or strategically important public sector undertakings are being privatised.
IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
The only justification for prisons is to house people for the protection of the public and themselves. Times, Sunday Times
And the main plank of the justification of his view was distinctly wobbly. Times, Sunday Times
The claim that there is a key diachronic element to the justification of memory belief has come to be known as preservationism. Epistemological Problems of Memory
In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.
Except for low-level grunts caught on tape and one top figure (who says not without justification that she's the scapegoat), no one in command is being punished. 04/30/2005
Without such a justification, is there a danger of having the work dismissed as pretension or posturing or, at worse, accused of naiveté?
After initial threats to hold a revote - which almost certainly would have gone against the company - all three unions seized upon the change at the top as justification for confirming their acceptance of the earlier ratification vote.
Probably because you haven’t entered the discussion – you just re-posted a smashed-together list of right-wing Israel justifications sans the really overt religious and racist ones, and posted it in haphazard fashion more akin to a retarded spambot than an actual person. Matthew Yglesias » Ehud Barak: Peace or Apartheid
These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
And the main plank of the justification of his view was distinctly wobbly. Times, Sunday Times
Yet by the end of the nineteenth century - the apogee of the Victorian Age - the moral justification for the empire and the scientific knowledge of the effects of opium use could no longer ensure that this drug trade would go unchallenged.
Such interest, however, does not provide a morally satisfactory justification for violently repressing the Pullman strike.
That would be to limit the operation of the provision to artificial situations, for which there is no justification either in principle or in the language used.
You have every justification for feeling angry.
Subsequent letters to objectors give no reasons or justification for dismissing such objections.
The preaching of justification is a powerful dimension of the theology of the cross; however, it is a much richer resource for missiology than that which is articulated by Luther.
This chapter examines the theoretical justification for such controls, that is, the case for intervention.
And this entitles the precept, _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself_, to the pre-eminence given to it, and is a justification of the apostle's assertion, that all other commandments are comprehended in it, whatever cautions and restrictions {28} there are, which might require to be considered, if we were to state particularly and at length what is virtue and right behaviour in mankind. Human Nature and Other Sermons
On the contrary, for people living as hunter-gatherers, it was a common practice, albeit disguised by various religious or cultural justifications.
What is the justification for these pay awards? Times, Sunday Times
He was an outspoken advocate of law reform, a pugnacious critic of established political doctrines like natural law and contractarianism, and the first to produce a utilitarian justification for democracy.
That the writings of Mr. Boole and myself "go to the full justification of" this "principle," is only true in the sense in which the Scotch use, or did use, the word _justification_. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
The Justice Department's Inspector General report released this week pulled few punches in admonishing the FBI for targeting anti-war groups and advocacy organizations with no apparent justification, and for placing non-violent activists in those groups on terrorist watch lists. Coleen Rowley: Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists
When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
So, this August, I decided that I needed some justification for playing, dozing, gazing, ambling and goofing off without guilt.
his transparent self-justification was unacceptable
I would love to hear their justification for such a barbarous attack. The Sun
I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although The Right of American Slavery
The claim is always of ‘falling standards’ - a claim without justification or substance.
Indeed, its values are regularly cited in justification of a looming war.
Now, pointless variation is in fact a sin of unpracticed writers, but lots of variation has a point, so there's no justification for viewing all variation with suspicion.
Determine equipment needs and oversee capital expenditure justification.
Anti-Semitism (and its supposed Scriptural and religious justification) was prevalent in Christendom for many centuries leading up to the holocaust. Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?
In this justification method, the last line is not justified.
But looking through the list, I come across names whose inclusion defies any reasonable justification.
In its justification, the court said that the lower court in St. Gallen can decide on the continuation or lifting of the provisional ban. Nespresso Rival Removes Capsules From Sale
The play is more an act of self-immolation masquerading as rational justification.
retrospective self-justification
Many have continued to condemn the U.S. for what they call preventive war, or pre-emption, in the case of the Iraqi invasion in 2003, calling it illegal, the unilateral invasion of a sovereign state without justification. Front Page
Such duty, however, is not absolute, and its breach is actionable only if it is wrongful, that is to say, without justification or excuse. Law In The Health and Human Services
What is the justification for these pay awards? Times, Sunday Times
The justification for central control is that if we are to let new entrants into higher education, then we must have the power to abolish fake universities. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the 'supercede' spelling does have etymological justification and it appears in the dictionary. Times, Sunday Times
Attacking Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, a favorite move of opponents of the New Deal, has consistently failed — even conservative Supreme Court Justice Anontin Scalia concedes the point — and the doctrine of "interposition," offered as justification to block civil-rights legislation, has been discredited for five decades. After the Fall
It seemed then a meager justification for manipulating my little brain and heart, yet an ache for wild beauty does command me.
In brief, shared ends are insufficient to anchor the liberal polity; there must be shared justifications as well.
I tried to find a biblical justification for it, but no matter how hard I looked, I always ended up at Leviticus 11:10 which calls scaleless fish, "an abomination. Archive 2004-12-05
[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
He provided a theoretical justification for the method of collecting natural histories.
State regulation protective of fetal life after viability thus has both logical and biological justifications.
Burrows didn't attempt any further self-justification, and Todd knew why. COLDHEART CANYON
Tschackert is correct in maintaining that, in the articles of justification and of the Church, "the fundamental thoughts of the Reformation doctrine were catholicized" by the Leipzig Interim. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
In this picture, justification operates on two levels: a basic level, at which we grasp primitive truths, and a reflective level that reinforces and stabilizes knowledge gained in the first way.
Many different countries, with very different cultures and economies are classed under the term third world and I will be examining how accurate or inaccurate the sweeping "third world" statement may be and the possible justifications for its continued use by not only the media and charity organisations, but the leaders of the third world themselves. The British National Party
Lower-class Jews were considered with some justification to be little more than carriers of foreign, radical “Bolshevist doctrines.” A Renegade History of the United States
They are also incredibly diverse; there is little justification for derogatory generalizations.
Conservative moralists find in Freud a justification for a morality of restraint.
In defamation the falsity of the libel or slander is presumed; but justification is a complete defence.
Still, it is possible that the position is more than an elaborate justification for short-sighted pleasure-seeking.
But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
The justification lies in the religious belief of the Hindu majority that the inner dome is the birthplace of Ram. No Property Rights, No Peace
It is whether you can get a great law teaching job these days professing no interest whatsoever in doctrinal elaboration, doctrinal reform, doctrinal justification or doctrinal history. Balkinization
Large areas of administrative action avoid the discipline of public justification.
In our theology, hard work was its own justification, a guard against corruption.
When asked the age of her son she cheerfully demurs, claiming with some justification that such questions are normally only asked as a way of deducing her own age - dangerous information, which most sopranos prefer to keep to themselves.
Pragmatists try to coalesce the quest for truth and the quest for justification by trotting out what Williams labels ‘the indistinguishability argument’.
Whatever theoretical justification there might be for a dual market it would appear increasingly unjust.
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Besides, “the Spirit of God” is conceived to be concerned in the justifying spoken of; as he certainly could not be and is never even supposed to be, in the doctrine of a mere compensational and judicial justification. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
If you don't like it, fair enough, but that's hardly a justification to attack the whole thing.
So have others, on both sides," Sit-aken-te pointed out with justification. Aerie
Today there is no justification except pontification by the powerful of the world.
In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.
Rules do really appear in accounts concerning the interpretation and justification of action.
It's a wraparound justification for a violence whose real end is the expiation of shame through massacre.
In our everyday lives, we treat animals as a means to our ends, but we increasingly lack moral justifications for doing so.
Yet at the same time they deny the doctrine of the Trinity, of the Incarnation, of the Atonement, and of justification by faith alone.
There's not a shadow of justification for your behaviour.
Caplan has said that the only possible justification for allowing someone to decide to "maim" themselves is if "the donor chooses to undergo the harm of surgery solely to help another. Salon
It also requires school officials to demonstrate some reasonable educational justification before they can censor anything.
There would seem, therefore, to be ample justification for describing the deviance of 3 as semantic.
The legitimate justification for such discrimination, she would suggest, is the majority's moral judgment.
Tens of millions around the globe see it, with justification, as an emblem of their oppression and misery.
Whatever criticisms we may have of publicly funded healthcare, it is surely inadmissible to allow the Republican right to use them as a justification for cutting public funding even further.
The defendant has entered a substantive defence pleading justification and qualified privilege.
When we discuss the nature of justification, we must distinguish between two different issues: First, what do we mean when we use the word ˜justification™? Epistemology
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation The boundaries were delineated using Zohary’s geobotanical map of the Middle East. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
It would be interesting to know what possible justification the department had for attempting to supply confidential information for which it was not asked. Times, Sunday Times
These myths serve as justification for the harsh views toward this segment of the population and consequently their punitive treatment.
Some rather solid-sounding sounding justifications for the procedure have been advanced, above and beyond the fact that embalming is good business for the undertaker because it helps him to sell more expensive caskets. The Undertaker's Racket
Competitors felt, as events were to prove with considerable justification, that official opinion favoured classical architecture.
This rhetoric offers both a posthoc justification for the changes, and a rallying cry for implementation.
There is no military justification for these measures, no matter how much sycophantic generals parrot the party line and try to blind public opinion with technicalities.
What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification.
Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
His insistence on the values to be upheld for Scotland, repeated, naturally, (if not boomingly) throughout his many interviews yesterday show his thinking in full or rather what he ultimately used as the justification for his desicion. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
The chronic shortage of currency for the acquisition of contemporary foreign publications has been cited as justification.
They can find no intellectual justification for raising the inheritance tax threshold for property alone to 1m. Times, Sunday Times
He added that the low income of the force's members could not be a justification for the officers to commit misdeeds.
-- So understanding the words, the apostle is here giving the language of the true method of justification; and this sense we prefer (with Calvin, Beza, Ferme, Locke, Jowett). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Moreover, the simple justification of the move - as a necessary evil to achieve the noble end of saving the National Health Service - is a handy argument.
This approach to self-justification is the practical equivalent of psychosis insofar as it is a refutation of empirical reality, a refutation of human reason and a denial of human history.
And this is the work of the Holy Ghost, who not only sanctifieth us, but, by ingenerating faith in us, and the application of the promise unto us, is the cause and means of our justification also, 1 Cor. vi. Pneumatologia
In defamation the falsity of the libel or slander is presumed; but justification is a complete defence.
On the basis of that permission there is no justification for any further dwellings.
It said the dossier published by the Government on Monday ‘does not constitute evidence of immediate threat and therefore is not a justification for precipitate military action’.
That having been said, my justification for setting aside a message novel or a polemic is that I hate being preached at. MIND MELD: SF with an Opposing Viewpoint
However, there can be little wrong in people of such a young and naive age recognising the inestimable pain and suffering that armed conflict inevitably brings and questioning the justification for it.
But the notion of reliability here is itself a normative one; it would therefore be circular to appeal to it in justification of our normative views.
Judaism herein opposed is not that of the earlier Epistles, which upheld the law and tried to join it with faith in Christ for justification. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For several reasons the normal justification thesis may seem to overlook some of the essential facts of political power.
First, environmental justifications for trade restrictions are sometimes little more than covert protectionism.
The justification of partiality is that these people don't deserve fair treatment.
But, when we even partially pay for it, what they do has to be justified and when justification is demanded the outcome will almost always be condemnation.
If you are walking down the street, this allows them to digitally strip-search you and rifle through your belongings without any sort of justification," she says. Homeland Security looked into covert body scans
Romans chapter 10 makes it clear that Paul was not anti-sematic – but he did want them to know Christ and have faith in Him for their justification before God. So what if Apostle Paul was not a Christian? « Dating Jesus
If the sincere reception of the sacraments actually secures pardon or justification _per se, immediately_, without the intervening instrumentality of a living faith, then faith is not the only condition of justification as the scriptures teach, but we are justified either by faith, or by the sacraments, and then there will be _three conditions of justification_, faith, baptism, and the Lord's Supper! American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
Our acquitment, in true, evangelical justification, is by absolution or pardon of sin; here, by a vindication of our own righteousness. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
If my sump pump spewed sewage through my neighbor's basement window, it might be argued with some justification that I should cover her Rug Doctor rental.
The ostensible justification for this profiteering at public expense is the cost of research into new drugs.
I suppose that, in justification, he could always claim he had a family to support.
I think what we've got now is what I call justification fatigue. CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2003
Now, pointless variation is in fact a sin of unpracticed writers, but lots of variation has a point, so there's no justification for viewing all variation with suspicion.
It grants clarity to chaos and provides rational justification for decisions taken in the heat and anger of the moment.
I should have been sat in front of the television making mental notes and issuing sharp rebukes to his paper thin justifications for war.
But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
However, in Antony's eulogy, he focuses on Caesar's positive traits, and cunningly disproves Brutus' justification for killing Caesar.
But the justification for regarding it as a major influence is considerable. Times, Sunday Times
The book is not for the most part concerned with the mechanics of industrial democracy but with its political justification. Politics, Planning and the State
State regulation protective of fetal life after viability thus has both logical and biological justifications.
The crisis gave an overarching justification to the government's policy.
It also raises questions about the justification for this omissions liability, and whether citizens have fair warning of it.
It is necessary to remember that a plea of justification may be pitched at one of three levels of gravity in relation to a defamatory sting.
It all comes down to money," was the justification and despite my embracing 'resourcing' as an actual word to be used in spoken and written communication, it makes my stomach cramp to do something for the sake of profit which might not be best for all involved. Minor Revisions
he considered misrule a justification for revolution
But is this brain drain real, or merely a bit of self - justification?
Focusing on the epistemic responsibility aspect of justification inclines us to fallibilism about knowledge.
The group's self-justification became even more pronounced when we suggested that this was surprising given the level of talent of each member of the band.
These matters are important, and reasonable justification can be made for implementing rules that facilitate orderly market development.
The justification will concentrate on business deliverables.
However, Alfred was not just appropriated by those wishing to extol racial destiny and/or imperial manhood in justification of the conduct of the war in South Africa.
Status offense charges served not only as a legal justification to apprehend runaways and to discipline boys who refused to go to school, but also to give the police a means to impose an informal curfew.
Any justification very likely can appear or be made to appear judgmental, discriminatory, unfairly harsh, insubstantial or even anachronistic.
The policy implications of this review of the health justification for public subsidy of sport are complex.
Sanskrit possesses some little features of accents and kerned sections, which render justification quite a fine art, accents on varying bodies needing to be utilised .... A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
Your resort — I think I can call it that — to self-defense as a legal justification for targeted killing in counterterrorism is of relatively recent vintage. The Volokh Conspiracy » Predator Drone Warfare — Assorted Links
The aforementioned facts make justification for continued use of this toxic chemical questionable.
If we follow this route, I think we can both say, with considerable justification, that we have exhausted every conceivable avenue prior to lighting the litigation touchpaper.
However, if laws prohibiting adult incest were extended to, say, distant cousins, what possible justification could be given?
Well, in one sense there is none, because I do not regard the justification for education as "investment in human capital" in that unfelicitous phrase of the Sixties. Canada's EconomyCan We Advance Back to Reason?
The "justification by faith alone" theory was by Luther styled the article of the standing and falling church (articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae), and by his followers was regarded as the material principle of Protestantism, just as the sufficiency of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
He objects, with some justification, to the raggedness of Shakespeares plays, the irrelevancies, the incredible plots, the exaggerated language: but what at bottom he probably most dislikes is a sort of exuberance, a tendency to takenot so much a pleasure as simply an interest in the actual process of life. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
While this is perfectly within the government's prerogative, student leaders as well as the ousted members feel the Liberals acted without justification.
Some theologians have claimed that theology gives a justification of religion.
Mr Bush struggled in part because he feared, with some justification, that the permanent bureaucracy in Washington would be hostile to a Republican agenda.
Likewise, there may be instances where a single heroic act may be its own sufficient justification.
I successfully persuaded the crew to save the Great Wall for some other time, suggesting that we instead visit the Ming Tombs, also a tourist destination, with the reed-thin justification that we could get some shots of the adjacent golf course where Politburo members such as Zhao Ziyang were said to play. BBC DOES THE COUNTRYSIDE
Her justification for the legitimacy of astrology as a valid science went something like this.
Didn't she feel like storming the barricades in a fit of enraged self-justification?
Not to quibble, but perhaps it would be better to say that retribution as the traditional justification for capital punishment has been "sidestepped" or rendered in effect irrelevant, rather than that it has been rejected. Capital Punishment Vs. Abortion
That direct contact is the justification for their continued role in exercising such profound influence over the presidential nomination process. Times, Sunday Times
These are discovered in the empirical tests and economic interpretation and justification is supplied afterwards.
That's the ugly reality behind the intellectual justifications of realpolitik.
There cannot be any justification for people who raise their hand against what is most sacred to us - the life of defenseless children!
While compassion makes us feel the richer for our magnanimity, justice stirs up far more complex emotions of self-justification and equivocation.
The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion.

How To Use Justification In A Sentence

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