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justified English

Meaning justified meaning

What does justified mean?

justified

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Simple sentences

The boy more than justified the favourable opinion they had formed of him.
This is justified.
Your outrage is completely justified.
Your anger is completely justified.
Her outrage is completely justified.
Her anger is completely justified.
His apprehensions were justified.
Her apprehensions were justified.
My apprehensions were justified.
For what you have written, your reaction is not justified in any manner, and I imagine it can make your life impossible.
Nevertheless, I believe that these claims are not justified.
Tom justified his conduct by saying he was very upset.
My taking the book is justified by my seeing it.
That's totally justified.

Movie subtitles

I presume you feel justified.
I could not consider myself justified in breaking the ties by which we are bound by a higher power.
No, no. It's justified, I'm sure.
No lynching can be justified, though sometimes attempts are made to whitewash them by citing the confessions of or proofs of guilt against, the by now silent corpse.
We want to see that the public's faith is justified.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified.
So here you are asked to judge not whether or not. these acts were committed. but to what extent they were justified.
I've watched your progress here with great care and have been gratified to note that it has fully justified my judgement in inviting you into the firm.
Nobody could say that my precautions were not fully justified.
You think Miss Allen's fears are justified?
You will ascertain whether or not such opposition is justified.
In view of this I do not feel justified in recommending that they should be granted.
I was about to add that I do not feel justified in recommending their order should be made permanent, until they've had a chance of proving their capabilities.
Well, I don't feel justified in wasting further time.
Not avenged, My Lord, justified!
He must be justified!
Let us hope that your confidence is justified.
No, no, no, I daresay you're perfectly justified.
It's justified, I'm sure.
Now, if we go beyond facts use our imagination as the criminal does, imagine what might have happen to him and act upon it as I have been trying to do in this case. we usually find ourselves justified.
Your teacher seems justified.
So you mean that cheating and truancy are justified?
These men were afraid and their fear was justified.
Clearly a justified killing.
I don't feel justified in wasting further time.
It was quite justified.
Under the circumstances I consider I was perfectly justified!
So I think I was perfectly justified in advising my committee not to allow her claim.
An attack against a fellow officer cannot be justified.
I think we'd be fully justified in exploiting it.
If your assumption turns out to be justified.
I'm not trying to justified myself, sir.
The worst situations can always be justified by words.
What are you justified because of his brilliant mind.
The police decide, if an arrest is justified.

News and current affairs

In Mill's view, we are justified in stopping him only to make sure that he is aware of the danger.
But, while Chancellor Angela Merkel is justified in insisting on this, it is driving her in the wrong direction.
Many films would have glorified a scientist seeking such a goal, and treated the use of animals for that purpose as obviously justified.
First, the United States justified the Israeli assault and blamed everything on Hamas, just as it used to pin all responsibility for whatever went wrong on Yasir Arafat and Fatah.
As things now stand, he would be justified in demanding greater international support rather than allow his country to bleed to death as Argentina is now doing.
The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
This is because the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on power can be justified only by continued rapid economic growth, without which workers and farmers will lose their jobs, and the urban middle classes their chance of increasing prosperity.
The Iraq War was not and could not be justified on the basis that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant.
Fourth, countries are poor often because of weak, inefficient, or corrupt government, characteristics that may disable them from taking cost-justified precautions.
Injustice and exploitation are an everyday occurrence, justified by references to security or the ideology of Greater Israel.
There are, as we noted, justified complaints about the lack of diversity in television broadcasting in Russia, yet Bush has not opposed efforts by America's Federal Communications Commission to weaken laws on media concentration.
Perhaps this particular attack can be justified on those grounds.
Such a high valuation can be justified if SKS provides a better service than the competition, but darker interpretations are possible.
The public's lack of confidence in the EU's political leadership is totally justified.
Many movements throughout history have used violence, but few have so thoroughly justified and romanticized it.
Historians have the luxury of debating whether terrorism may have been justified in certain situations in the past.
Terrorism is even less justified given that political avenues exist nowadays for pursuing political aims.
For once, over employment is politically justified.
The killings must be proportionate, strategically necessary, and publicly justified.
The system of confinement that the ban represents is justified neither by Islamic texts, nor by the nature of the diverse society that the Al Saud and their Wahhabi partners' rule.
Their skepticism seems justified, since the usual indicators of debt sustainability look much worse for Greece than they did for Argentina.
Some local borrowing can be justified by the central budgetary allocation to local projects.
Argentina's other threat, not to repay the IMF, challenged the old system just as profoundly and seemed for some to be a justified response to years of bad policy advice from the IMF and the G-7 countries.
Officials in New Delhi were justified in reacting acerbically to Western critics of its policy.
In essence, this is an argument that the war was justified as a means of promoting human rights.
When protecting capital is elevated to a moral principle, or justified as a component of human rights in a region resentful over its sense of economic subjugation, the effect is to foster disillusion with human rights.
The US, for its part, while justified in joining the ASEAN claimants in pushing back against Chinese overreach in 2010-2011, must be careful about escalating its rhetoric.
Was the war justified in terms of costs and benefits, and was war really the last resort?
Given the terrible costs, I hope that this war will prove justified, though I have my doubts based on the current evidence.

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