How To Use Justified In A Sentence

It has often been pointed out that “Water is H2O” is a necessary truth, but it can only be justified empirically, that is, a posteriori. A Priori Justification and Knowledge
Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere. Pride and Prejudice
How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up. Times, Sunday Times
Since Kashmir was (and is) a Muslim majority territory, Pakistan felt justified in seeing Pushtun warlords charge in from the north-west of Pakistan, late in 1947, to seize control of Kashmir.

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I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
Lightning raids in class are entirely justified. The Sun
Throughout the whole of competition policy there is a presumption that intervention is justified in order to preserve the public interest.
He is a happy man, journey justified, as he ticks this bird off his list.
Other student-poets cleaved to the justified left margin; still others wrote in paragraphs.
I don't think he is justified in his action.
He adheres to a self-styled"hacker ethic, "which justified any computer intrusion as long as the motive is pure.
Nevertheless it is useful and justified to look at living systems from the functional point of view.
A good lawyer might fudge the issue for his client - not sufficiently to get him off the hook, but sufficiently to suggest that he honestly felt himself justified in making a second marriage.
He had never justified his habit by denying that smoking was bad for his health, he knew it was, but that didn't make him enjoy it any less.
(It is a geekly penchant to do things from scratch, but then this is not always unjustified.) Planet RDF
The refusal to pray for an unbelieving kindred is justified, according to Mahomet, by the duty of a prophet, and the example of Abraham, who reprobated his own father as an enemy of God. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
If it did, I would be justified in dismissing arguments against free trade on the grounds that many who make such arguments are at risk of losing their jobs or have actually lost their jobs. Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The Holy Roman Empire ever since the first event of Charles the Great's coronation, when it justified itself as a diplomatical expedient for unifying Western Christendom, had existed more or less as a shadow. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
This study justified the use of villus height as an indicator of the nutritional state in rats.
Snyder justified the secrecy because Eisenhower, since 1945, had suffered from “recurrent attacks of lower abdominal pain and distention.” Eisenhower 1956
His main view was to keep our people in peace; he apologized for the use of the term neutrality in his answers, and justified it, by having submitted the first of them (that to the merchants, wherein it was used) to our consideration, and we had not objected to the term. The Anas
Conduct which is justified is right, or at least permissible, in the circumstances.
Thompson points out that the first clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms says that all rights can be restricted if there is a justified reason to do so.
I cannot believe that another attack can be right - however justified it may seem to a nation reeling with shock and anger.
Oppression or unjustified imposition can never be tolerated.
This sort of increase simply cannot be justified.
The cost of such a solution is justified by the cost to the business of even a few minutes of down time.
But if lying is moralistically wrong, how can it ever be justified?
The cab stopped with a jerk that justified Wolfe’s attitude toward machinery, and the hackie stuck his head out and objected. The Black Mountain
Many traditional western ethical perspectives, however, are anthropocentric or human-centered in that either they assign intrinsic value to human beings alone (i.e., what we might call anthropocentric in a strong sense) or they assign a significantly greater amount of intrinsic value to human beings than to any nonhuman things such that the protection or promotion of human interests or well-being at the expense of nonhuman things turns out to be nearly always justified (i.e., what we might call anthropocentric in a weak sense). Environmental Ethics
Can the director explain why demolished properties will be subject to unjustified disruption?
And for those who find their fears were justified, many head straight to divorce court.
This does not exclude the right of justified self-defense of individuals or communities.
England are a good, good team and their ranking of fourth is justified. The Sun
Alan Irwin alludes to the public non-acceptance of nuclear technology, and argues that this conclusion is justified by a careful, rational cost-benefit analysis.
The camp provided the Germans tautological proof of the necessity of imprisoning Untermenschen: the disgusting state of the Haftlinge of Auschwitz demonstrated their inferiority and justified their murder.
They loved him none the more, of course, and spun, prawned, and wormed as before, honestly envying just a little the purist whose fly undoubtedly often justified his claims. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment: [those days] under the microscope
Even allowing for the cost of infrastructure, maintenance and consumables, the fees the managements have sought do not seem to be justified.
The unique specimen of Karataolhrips jurassiens was unavailable for restudy, so we relied on published drawings for interpretation of wing venation, which is justified since the drawings agree well with photos of it.
The procedure may be necessary on some farms to prevent facial injuries to nursing pigs and injuries to sow teats and/or udders; thus, this procedure could be justified on an animal welfare basis.
These cases, however, do not speak to the issue of when or why maternal custody is justified.
This fallacy misleads people, and morally, I feel we shouldn't use this method in an argument, because it isn't justified to take advantage of someone.
Second, even if one were to say that the bombers were merely responding to the injustice dealt their brethren, are bombs a justified response to heartfelt grievance?
Where unequal power cannot be justified steps must be taken to correct the situation. Politics, Planning and the State
The court stated that a number of criteria used by employers to justify incremental pay differentials will have to be justified.
The rest are completely justified in relying only on outcomes. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Lithwick’s Lament
He has no illusions about the atmosphere of terror and suspicion that pervaded even the elite and rendered all of its servitors vulnerable to unjustified and sudden persecution.
And you leaped to meet it; and you met it; and turning in an instant on the hand you had licked and beslavered, as only such hounds can, you strengthened, and confirmed, and justified me in my scheme. ' Martin Chuzzlewit
Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
Their methods and motives are now universally regarded as brutal, unfair and unjustified.
Justified criticisms of facilities in the general enclosure have also been heeded. Times, Sunday Times
That makes it difficult to reach a sensible judgment on whether this is a justified expense. Times, Sunday Times
Force is only justified in extreme circumstances .
Disc two's round-up of singles hints at last-minute doubts about disc one: doubts that, two or three makeweights aside, are unjustified.
I, for one, think they have been perfectly justified in refusing to give up to the Americans the bait to carry on their Grand Bank fisheries because the control of the bait is a matter entirely within their legislative competence. The Newfoundland Fisheries Question
Even if the legislature must be able to discourage unjustified absences, it cannot penalise them by creating exceptions to the right to legal assistance.
They own that the claim is justified.
Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
The ritual slaughter is justified by the doctrine that the soul of the victim went straight to heaven.
The agreement proclaimed ‘a consensus in basic truths’ on how sinners are justified, or deemed righteous, in God's sight.
This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe?
The Maori Land Court has recognised that these lands and estates may include beaches and foreshores, and they seem to have a prima facie case… or at least they do if you think that there has been even one justified land claim under the Treaty.
JohnDewey: I think you're possibly assuming a bunch of other things about the malcontents that aren't necessarily justified i.e. that their malcontent is a personality trait, rather than a result of situational factors. More Unhappiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
On applying this law to the case of two isomeric benzil derivatives, the molecular weights were found, as expected, to be identical, and not multiples; hence Prof. Meyer is perfectly justified in introducing the necessary modification in the "position in space" theory. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
Behaviorism has long justified itself by a philosophy that exalts prediction and control over theoretical explanation.
The managers of two award-winning Scottish pubs last night admitted that much of the criticism was justified.
Strikes which damage the innocent are as justified in achieving the stated aim as burning heretics.
The central issue in the case is whether that was a justified course of action.
The presence of this massive army of foreign soldiers cannot be justified in the presence of a popularly elected government.
Where the continuities between what the folklorists described and earlier elements are substantial enough we can feel justified in using more recent materials to flesh out earlier sources.
The criticism was wholly unjustified.
We do not publish anonymous letters, although we may withhold a writer's identify if it is justified.
Royal aides insisted the increased cost was justified by the number of official visits last year. The Sun
The rules enforced by sanitarians, are justified as public policy.
Riley lists all the calm, logical, perfectly justified reasons that she's angry.
A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
‘The clamour for early interest rate increases is unjustified and potentially dangerous, particularly for manufacturing,’ he said.
Though justified on grounds of profile and race sponsorship, it is a mightily uncomfortable compromise for a supposedly front-rank sport. Times, Sunday Times
Dennis and Erdos think that the fear is well justified by a thousand cumulative trends, beginning with the habitual incivility of teenagers from broken homes and ending with serious and organised crime.
He renames their collective claims as conspiratorial; discounts their experience as evidence; and holds their language and culture against them as a justified and relevant reason why these Chicanas were sterilized.
And this has caused a mass unjustified complaisance.
The two also have a stimulating discussion about whether murder can ever be justified by extenuating circumstances.
You have taken all that away from him in a brutal, cowardly and totally unjustified attack. Times, Sunday Times
It is justified solely as an adjunct to the legislative process.
He adds that the move is justified by a ‘more receptive’ public looking for more upscale choices in today's robust economy.
At first glance this may seem a justified tit for tat.
This opinion was in practice formulated based on the nugatory answer to a linguistic conception that whether a music segment is clearly signified is justified on the basis of its signified relations.
In spite of all these justified reasons, I cannot help but wonder: are we paying too much attention to winning?
Labour leader Ian Male said last night that the increases could not be morally justified, although there were extenuating circumstances.
To their credit they have done a marvellous job and it has more than justified its cost.
Miles is uncritical and seems to think that outrageous performance art and happenings are justified because they make people think. The Times Literary Supplement
In this justification method, the last line is not justified.
Congress routinely adopts policies that cater to special interests, which are then justified by the sort of smarmy, fact-free spin that the comedian Stephen Colbert has labeled "truthiness."
The writers community believes the protests over the book are unjustified and ridiculous.
About five miles distant in front another line of cliff extends, which thus appears completely to encircle the valley; and hence the name of bay is justified, as applied to this grand amphitheatrical depression. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
This project is a demonstration that this prejudice is not justified.
Gloucester's forward power and stout defence gave them a narrow but justified win. Times, Sunday Times
Until then, however, we must assume that the old man still possesses his full wits and that his nerviness is not unjustified. A Letter of Mary
The speed and force and resistlessness of him justified the designation. Heart of the Blue Ridge
On one view, known as consequentialism of rights, if the only way to ensure respect of a certain right of A and B is to infringe the same right of C, we shall be justified in doing so. Terrorism
We are not, it appears to me, more justified in applying the term telluric to the nickel and iron, the olivine and pyroxene (augite), found in meteoric stones, than in indicating the COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision. Bête Voir
Section 3 was justified by the fear that voters in one state or district might elect candidates who are disloyal to the country as a whole.
The enormous increase in surveillance has been justified by claims that terrorists are using cryptography, and in particular steganography: the art of hiding information.
Fears of complete closure seem unjustified. Times, Sunday Times
Union officials justified the pacts on the ground that the alternative was the elimination of the entire union contract.
You would, naturally, be perfectly justified in inquiring after my credentials in offering these remarks. The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:
Yau has chosen to use people with ‘normal’ body shapes to illuminate the fact that many of our conceptions of body images are unjustified.
High praise indeed - and all fully justified. The Sun
No, Captain," replied Bob, who was busy undressing; and, within a few moments he had plunged into the sea, and was swimming out with a brave firm stroke in a way that fully justified the Captain's praise of his natatory powers, shouting out at intervals his customary war - cry -- "Jolly! Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
The act was barely justified by the circumstances.
But you should make certain that you don't becloud his judgement with unjustified preconceptions. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
The terms of his Orvieto contract reflect his celebrity as an architect, which is justified by his remedial work on the cathedral transept, apse, and roof.
Happy the author whose earliest works are read and understood by the lustre thrown back upon them from his latest! for then we receive the impression of continuity and cumulation of power, of peculiarity deepening to individuality, of promise more than justified in the keeping: unhappy, whose autumn shows only the aftermath and rowen of an earlier harvest, whose would-be replenishments are but thin dilutions of his fame! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
Further study using a greater number of mares is justified to corroborate the findings of this experiment.
Huddleston, the New Hampshire president, says colleges are justified in moving to have accounts closed if they are peddling misinformation in the guise of a campus authority figure in a way that could cause harm. College presidents around USA impersonated on Twitter
In this case, it is not suggested that Constable Bishop's actions were justified by the appellant's arrest on the outstanding warrant.
Your report last week was unfair. It was based upon wholly unfounded and totally unjustified allegations.
Critics of the law call the preclearance requirement a unique federal intrusion on state sovereignty and a badge of shame for the affected jurisdictions that is no longer justified. The Supreme Court hopes to kill the Voting Rights Act
The more the "experts" on NASA and what's wrong with it's "vision" complain, the more justified the politicians become in defunding it. American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill - and NASA - NASA Watch
The use of cementless metaphyseal fit femoral components is justified as the proximal bone stock remains supportive.
Her pride in her achievements is justified.
The beginner must especially learn that the "good intention" to serve the case and the so-called excusing "eagerness to do one's duty," by which little lies are sometimes justified, have absolutely no worth. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
Second point: is the constructivist's fundamental assumption not justified if knowledge is our subject of study rather than successful behaviour?
It wounds our egos when patients leave us, no matter how unjustified their reasons.
The undermining of self-esteem may lead to assumptions about the reactions of others that are unjustified.
Investment in some technology can be justified as it leads to more efficient billing.
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
A certain amount of cynicism on the part of American team bosses is justified. Times, Sunday Times
In the Amazon basin it is one of the most popular articles of food, a position fully justified by its nutritional qualities.
Moving actors try to make large physical choices that must be justified when their dubber makes a contradicting statement. Activities for English Corner (or Oral English class) « Peace Corps: China
Hence, as in Augustine, there is no intrinsic or surd evil; evil is justified as the means of developing man from bondage to self-conscious participation in the THEODICY
You make a good point that Lights Out is hampered by having to be a self-starter and might have benefited by riding Justified's promotional coat tails and premiering a few weeks later. Ask Matt: Good Wife, Fringe, Downton Abbey, Community Roger Ebert & More
What, even of the best and most successful, would be justified by itself alone? by the present, or the material ostent alone? Preface, 1876, To the Two-Volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and “Two Rivulets.” Collect
The name broke down nicely into four justified lines.
It is not patriotism, that is to say undiluted concern for the nation as a whole, which leads some of the modern Egyptians to prefer an entirely native government to the Anglo-Egyptian administration now obtaining in that country: it is restlessness; and I am fortunately able to define it thus without the necessity of entering the arena of polemics by an opinion as to whether that restlessness is justified or not justified. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
In matters less material Madame d'Alberg took as director the great authority of Shakspeare, and none can tell how many countless times she justified herself by repeating in the most suasory tone this little extract from Hamlet: Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
In Romans 3 Paul insists on six occasions that we are justified by faith.
Was his brazen disregard for my mother's feelings due to the fact that he felt justified because she had committed the original sin? Times, Sunday Times
One speaker justified Southern secession by urgent considerations of necessity and safety; another scouted the idea of coercing a seceding State; to a third, peaceful separation, though painful and humiliating, seemed the only safe and honourable way. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
Within days, moreover, this confidence proved justified.
This is quite different from, say, an operation that is much more dangerous -- but easily justified by the obviously broken limb, plugged up gall bladder or occluded arteries. David Katz, M.D.: What to Do About Flu? Get Vaccinated
Those of you who prefer an action drama with a more serene feel should try the Southern drawl of Justified. Times, Sunday Times
His latest success was achieved by 11 lengths at Doncaster last month when he justified favouritism in impressive style.
It is worth persevering, however, because the more one reads of this book, the more justified Grass seems in backing away from dramatising the disaster.
Howard justified overruling the recommendation saying it was national policy to proceed as quickly as possible with renewable energy projects.
Impartialist theories which allow for some first-order partiality, but which nevertheless insist that all such behavior be justified in second-order impartialist terms, might be referred to as fundamentally impartialist moral theories. Impartiality
In both cases, bosses sometimes feel justified in keeping the present-day costs to an absolute minimum. Times, Sunday Times
We are justified only by faith in this Jesus, he insists.
It justified this penetration by reference to the satisfaction of popular desires, and the freedom of the press to enlighten the public.
Her forebodings about the future were to prove justified.
There will also be justified scepticism about whether aviation capacity in Britain will significantly increase. Times, Sunday Times
A public body may take action only if Justified by law. Times, Sunday Times
The apparent contradiction has been justified by the voluntary waiving of the right to fight alongside partners and to come to their aid when needed. Times, Sunday Times
Nor did he specify what action might be taken if evidence emerged of unjustified price rises.
It links back to the question of how/if taxation can ever be justified, and whether taxation is theft, as some libertarians will say. Thoughts on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But that was not a justified criticism. Times, Sunday Times
The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far more anxiously sought to be confuted than confirmed: she began, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr Cecilia
In his opposition to civil rights legislation, he might be called the original “tenther” -- that is, a serial quoter of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves for the states all powers not expressly granted to the Federal government, with which he justified hamstringing all efforts by Washington to rectify social or economic injustice. Steve Fraser: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
As British ministers deliberate how they will vote in the Security Council, they are confronted with the choice between what is morally right – supporting a Palestinian state – and hypocrisy justified in the name of pragmatism. A Palestinian state is a moral right | Observer editorial
Therefore, government paternalism is justified in steering people away from the decisions that are correlated with emotion and toward those decisions that are correlated with reason. On Neuroeconomics and Paternalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He proposed that linguistic knowledge was epistemologically justified by its formal simplicity.
However, in some cases, instant dismissal may be justified if the conduct of the employee is serious and wilful.
His pride in his achievements is justified.
They could often only be justified as part of a new hospital, rather than an addition to an existing one. Times, Sunday Times
This widespread pessimism does not seem justified.
Second point: is the constructivist's fundamental assumption not justified if knowledge is our subject of study rather than successful behaviour?
Are these cruel jibes really justified, do I really set out to shock? Times, Sunday Times
You aren't worth it, and the friendly overtures of others come as a justified reproach.
In itself, the offence justified instant dismissal under company rules.
His victory sealed the success of those Games and justified the revival of the Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
The share price strength is not wholly unjustified. Times, Sunday Times
And here is a GIF image of a typeset version with justified lines, as the author wishes it to be seen.
Raven was clearly justified in eliding details of the two plots, in the interest of stiffening his adaptation, and making it plausible to 1970s viewers.
Even if they did, we should not be justified in taking situationally specific invective at face value. The Times Literary Supplement
But perhaps it is justified to form a negative assessment about the judgment and diligence of a person who is overweight and flabby.
Her smile conveyed such a warm sense of wellbeing as to suggest she now felt confident that her problems were solved, and her confidence would subsequently prove to be entirely justified.
The tale of the film's making, from conception to opening, is unusually long and twisty, which is what justified features by Michael Idov in New York. GreenCine Daily
And, of course, lots of very pretty leather clothing (which is justified because they wear true grunge in real life).
In the view of the Greens, that presumption cannot be justified.
Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.
I think it a conclusion, fully justified by analogy, that, sooner or later, we shall discover the remains of our less specialised primatic ancestors in the strata which have yielded the less specialised equine and canine quadrupeds. Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
Are we justified in concluding, then, that in the "good old times" of our great-grandmothers -- that idyllic time when women must have been at least free from the reproach that they, solely and unaided, were destroying the hopes of the race -- that myopic, hypermetropic and astigmatic eyes were not in existence? The Education of American Girls
But I would have been no more justified in mugging the nearest doctor until he treated me than the government is in outlawing the free exchange of medical services. The Volokh Conspiracy » How to “Kill the Bill”
However, it does not seem that those who raise the question of the instrumentalization of women's wombs are ipso facto talking nonsense, even if, ultimately, the procedure to which they object or about which they have concerns is morally justified, or the survival of certain embryonic human beings justifies resorting to a procedure one would otherwise not be justified in undertaking. The difficult issue of embryonic adoption
Perhaps this was justified, considering that the audience was expected to consist of laymen, not connoisseurs, who would not have been able to distinguish between one tala and another or their role in imparting the rasas.
In my opinion, the decision was wholly justified.
The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery. Ulysses
The application of American sanctions, in particular the embargo on oil exports to Japan on 1 August 1941, justified this apprehension.
At our present state of knowledge, statistical calculations of what could happen are justified and achievable.
One requires a background of considerable behavioural complexity before one is justified in attributing to any creature beliefs, intentions and so on.
The owners' response was that the charterers' complaint was unjustified.
He told himself that Katrina's absurd and unjustified hostility towards her father was fuelling his anxiety. FINAL RESORT
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.
We do not publish anonymous letters, although we may withhold a writer's identify if it is justified.
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

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