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The configuration of the ground seldom admits guns remaining far in rear of the advance, but there is no justifiable hope in advancing strong masses of troops against an entrenched position without preparatory artillery action, and no assault should be ordered until the artillery duel has silenced the enemy's guns and shaken the defending forces
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The War on Terror is encountering a great deal of opposition from the (hard) Left who continue to advance the notion of American Moral Culpability; that is to say, that America is the (historical) root cause of (all) worldly grievances and should therefore make every conceivable effort to redress certain points of contention that have evolved from its own (alleged) transgressions; thereby giving (justifiable) cause to the underlying motives that led up to the events of 9/11
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World War II, along with the Civil War, is one of the only two righteous and justifiable wars in US history
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As covered elsewhere, while the decision to invade Afghanistan was perhaps justifiable (and not all agree it was) only the most ideologically blind could agree the unprovoked war on Iraq was right or necessary
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I wish that I could have taken some justifiable satisfaction from this Roman disaster, but I was appalled by the tremendous suffering that all the people must have gone through who had been trapped and smothered in such a hellish burial
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I personally will just stick with the standard account, since I see it justifiable instead to only spend money here as an advertiser
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A free individual can assess these giants and say with justifiable pride of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare’s King Lear that a human being did that
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The State of Alaska boasts, with justifiable pride, of having three thousand rivers of which, twenty-six are officially under the protection of the Department of Natural Resources of the United States
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They were justifiable at the time, and I could honestly say that I felt it would be an uncomfortable situation
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had seemed, not only justifiable, but almost glorious in some
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The police absolved her of wrong, calling it justifiable
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professed that death is justifiable or that death and hate are acceptable
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It is not a justifiable means for death
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This whole exercise was totally justifiable as a public service
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trackable and therefore justifiable
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therefore justifiable, and having a free refills of coffee
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11 It may help to have your feelings validated through seeing a therapist to help you understand and support your feelings as justifiable, realistic, and good
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ever kill an officer of the law without a valid, justifiable
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you did, it’s all in the past, and it must’ve been justifiable,
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The impression gained from the earlier part of this period is of a posturing figure whose sense of Poland's importance in the Allied cause was out of all proportion to her worth as an ally, though his demands to be treated as an equal partner in the struggle against Germany could be seen as justifiable attempts directed at maintaining Polish dignity
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In fact, it may have been totally justifiable
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This justifiable Hindu resentment against the Christian zeal to convert others into its religious creed had unfortunately led to unjustifiable atrocities on the evangelists on occasion
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Is murder ever justifiable? On this date in 1970, my answer would have been: “No!” Taking
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He wondered: ‘Is it justifiable to kill this criminal? Would this action be pleasing to God? He is a felon; he has killed many men and plundered so many times
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without justifiable cause to communicate with the mi-
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Unks thinks Cass is filled with justifiable concern
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I cried all night, not knowing when the onslaught will come to an end, and in lamentation of a bleak future that stares me in the face; not for any other reason but on realisation of the fact that some human beings can be that callous, wicked and twisted for no justifiable reason
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He could no longer walk round his own garden without meeting an interlaced couple; and though he suggested to Herr Dremmel with what he felt was really admirable self-restraint that these public endearments might give rise to comment, Herr Dremmel merely replied that as Ingeborg was his _Braut_ it ought to give rise to much more comment, even to justifiable complaints, if his manner to her were less warm
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but the mentality that makes the infringements appear justifiable, that very same mentality
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After all, it would be quite justifiable to attend to 30,000
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Lloyd was swinging the ball forward and backward, up and down, between his knees, giving Kurt justifiable concern that he was attempting an underhand shot
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Kurt had rather she’d never been there, but her presence was the means to his justifiable end
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Why should people spend 100’s of millions of hard-earned dollars trying to keep one astronaut alive in space for a few days; while billions of poor people starve and suffer because not enough money has been spent on their welfare? Yet, to the distorted value systems of civilization, this is a perfectly justifiable and rational expenditure
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Then you get the justifiable opinion of the general public; that specialized activists are loons: who are not interested in anything else
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Within this belief system of reincarnation, destructive judgements of others are often made justifiable because of the belief in reincarnation that karma drives and dictates to whom or what one comes back to earth as
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Why don’t history books point this out? Neither was France allying herself with the most corrupt backward medieval imperial monarchy of Russia justifiable
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Austria had a supposedly justifiable excuse to declare war on Serbia… That is… if the assassination of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been something that the emperor did not want to happen
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Furthermore, these prohibited activities prescribed in the Ten Commandments are in many circumstances considered too narrow for many situations in many different countries today, and therefore, are behaviours that are possibly even justifiable and legitimate as being the lesser of two evils in some circumstances
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So it could be justifiable to break Moses’ commandments and laws under certain circumstances
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“I was a soldier, so killing was made justifiable
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the cut-off date and that too without any justifiable reasons”
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Being that the victim was an alleged rapist and trying to cause an attempted rape, Dana is charged with justifiable manslaughter
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This pride, though justifiable, displeased Katerina Ivanovna for some reason: "as though the table could not have been laid except by Amalia Ivanovna!" She disliked the cap with new ribbons, too
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You will admit that recollecting your embarrassment, your eagerness to get away and the fact that you kept your hands for some time on the table, and taking into consideration your social position and the habits associated with it, I was, so to say, with horror and positively against my will, _compelled_ to entertain a suspicion--a cruel, but justifiable suspicion! I will add further and repeat that in spite of my positive conviction, I realise that I run a certain risk in making this accusation, but as you see, I could not let it pass
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"Hold, sirs, hold!" cried Don Quixote in a loud voice; "we have no right to take vengeance for wrongs that love may do to us: remember love and war are the same thing, and as in war it is allowable and common to make use of wiles and stratagems to overcome the enemy, so in the contests and rivalries of love the tricks and devices employed to attain the desired end are justifiable, provided they be not to the discredit or dishonour of the loved object
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It is surely justifiable for the State to do for the benefit of the whole people that which the capitalists are already doing for the profit
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He will never believe that my death was suicide; and yet it is important for the honor of my memory,—and this surely is not vanity, but a justifiable pride,—it is important the world should know that I have consented, by my free will, to stop my arm, already raised to strike, and that with the arm which has been so powerful against others I have struck myself
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Since it is morally justifiable I have only to consider the question of personal risk
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I was reelected in a campaign I barely participated in—but the voters in my district, thank goodness, felt I had been doing a good job for them and took my obvious problems (my hand was now visibly shaking during public appearances) as a sign of my justifiable reaction to my father’s illness
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” I didn’t have a justifiable reason for being there
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Since he’d become fully self-aware, he’d internalized an entire set of philosophical, moral, and ethical constraints about how and when killing was justifiable, but they hadn’t changed his original function
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You will admit that recollecting your embarrassment, your eagerness to get away and the fact that you kept your hands for some time on the table, and taking into consideration your social position and the habits associated with it, I was, so to say, with horror and positively against my will, compelled to entertain a suspicion—a cruel, but justifiable suspicion! I will add further and repeat that in spite of my positive conviction, I realise that I run a certain risk in making this accusation, but as you see, I could not let it pass
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Bulstrode was generally justifiable
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object, she was convinced, was thoroughly justifiable: it was Lydgate whose intention was inexcusable; and there was a plan in her mind which, when she had carried it out fully, would prove how very false a step it would have been for him to have descended from his position
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He had then cared but little about Lydgate's painful impressions with regard to the suggested change in the Hospital, or about the disposition towards himself which what he held to be his justifiable refusal of a rather exorbitant request might call forth
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The mass of his feeling about Dorothea's marriage to Ladislaw was due partly to excusable prejudice, or even justifiable opinion, partly to a jealous repugnance hardly less in Ladislaw's case than in Casaubon's
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It is justifiable to reduce risk in the trade (by exiting part of the position) somewhere following B because the trade is not working as well or as cleanly as expected
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This entry would have been justifiable on the bar marked C, but it did not trigger
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It might have been justifiable to hold a partial position through this large up day, especially if partial profits had already been booked, but there is no reason to endure any more pain following C
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It should be essential, therefore, for anyone engaging in financial operations to know whether he is investing or speculating and, if the latter, to make sure that his speculation is a justifiable one
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100) For the authors, investment is to be contrasted with speculation, and they argue: “It should be essential, therefore, for anyone engaging in financial operations to know whether he is investing or speculating and, if the latter, to make sure that his speculation is a justifiable one
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That did not mean we had to enter the trade, but if we did, it did mean that we had a justifiable reason for the trade and that any loss would be very small
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The 6× book value might be justifiable assuming that a company has such attractive access to capital markets that it could increase their number of shares outstanding by 31
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But when it comes to matters of money, being cautious is justifiable
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Moreover, a strategy of writing equity index options earns positive long-run returns, a justifiable reward given the inherent riskiness of effectively selling financial catastrophe insurance
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Some of this concern is self-serving but justifiable
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You have to consider whether routinely paying the premium and occasionally falling foul of the excess whenever the stop loss is triggered – either by the real dive which you wanted protection against, or by the all-too-frequent momentary spikes in share price movement – is justifiable in relation to your own circumstances
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Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk
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Ordinary, simple men with a conception of the demands of the social and Christian Russian peasant morality lost this conception, and found a new one, founded chiefly on the idea that any outrage or violence was justifiable if it seemed profitable
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He showed that, since every act of violence could be justified, as actually happens, when two enemies do violence to one another and both consider their violence justifiable, and there is no chance of verifying the justice of the determination of either, it is necessary not to believe in any justifications of violence, and under no condition, as at first was thought right by humanity, is it necessary to make use of them
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This is the basis of the appalling conviction that prevails among the lower classes, that the existing system, so ruinous to them, is necessary and justifiable, and that it must be maintained by outrage and murder
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But the principal thing is, that they pass their best years in getting disused to life; they grow accustomed to consider their position as justifiable; and they convert themselves physically into utterly useless parasites, and mentally they dislocate their brains and become mental eunuchs
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Those who take part in wars do not even think of asking themselves whether there is any justification for these innumerable murders, whether they are justifiable or unjustifiable, lawful or unlawful, innocent or criminal; whether they are breaking that fundamental commandment that forbids killing without lawful cause
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Thus a man who under the influence of passion has committed an act contrary to the truth he recognizes, remains none the less free to recognize it or not to recognize it; that is, he can by refusing to recognize the truth regard his action as necessary and justifiable, or he may recognize the truth and regard his act as wrong and censure himself for it
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Jackson had made no such "insinuation," then the assertion in this letter that he had made none, was perfectly harmless and justifiable
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As we are about to separate, and as present appearances would not warrant our giving up any species of protection, we shall be justified in giving a discretionary power to the Executive to put down such part of the Naval Establishment as he may in future think it justifiable to part with
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In my opinion this decision is in proof of the sagacity and wisdom of those who made it; it was highly justifiable to retain this power to be exercised by the States; because, corporations are generally founded on circumstances, which are entirely local—as such, they can be better understood by the Legislatures of the respective States, than by that of the General Government
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For the fact might not have occurred precisely in the form contemplated by the act of May, 1810, and yet the President of the United States, in issuing his proclamation, might be either justifiable or excusable
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It might be justifiable
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A power intrusted to a politician to be used on the occurrence of a particular event, for the purpose of obtaining a particular end, he may sometimes be justifiable in using, in a case which may not be precisely that originally contemplated
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But what is this amendment which re-enacts the law of May last, and such pitiful reasoning as I have heard on this occasion, but placing our seal to that infamous insinuation? The President, on the mere promise of the Minister of the Emperor, that the Berlin and Milan decrees should cease to operate on the first day of November, placed full faith and reliance on that promise, and issued his proclamation on the 2d, presuming the promise had been fulfilled—and, shall we say that the Emperor is justifiable in disbelieving the law of May last, solemnly enacted by the three branches of the Government and the President's proclamation, together with the Circular of the Secretary of the Treasury, enjoining the law to be carried into effect?
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War, in this country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so, as not to require the aid of logic to convince our reason, nor the ardor of eloquence to inflame our passions
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Sir, I might prove the war, should it ensue, justifiable, by the express admission of the gentleman from Virginia; and necessary, by facts undoubted and universally admitted, such as that gentleman did not pretend to controvert
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The same gentleman argues that every thing now calls upon us to make a stand; that there was no danger to our liberties in a standing army of twenty or thirty thousand men, and that all admitted there was justifiable cause of war, and he believed it had now become necessary
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But to restrain, or in any manner interfere with our commerce with neutral nations, with whom Great Britain was at peace, and against whom she had no justifiable cause of war, for the sole reason that they restrained or excluded from their ports her commerce, was utterly incompatible with the pacific relations subsisting between the two countries
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In the present state of our affairs with Great Britain the course above pointed out is the more justifiable and proper
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The conduct of our enemy was the less justifiable, as she manned her own ships with people of all nations
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The judgment of the writer is that the employment of the word “official” in the sense of “pharmacopœial” is justifiable on linguistic grounds, and that it is, moreover, fully justified by the condition of pharmacy in this country, where a clear distinction between “all sorts of medicines,” and “pharmacopœial medicines” has become necessary
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This palpable progress towards the complete extinction of the relics of one of the finest Gothic buildings in Scotland, certainly rendered it not only justifiable but highly praiseworthy that the Exchequer should make some effort for preserving so much of the pile as was preservable
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They assert that the war is unnecessary and not justifiable, because the pecuniary expenditure and loss will exceed in value the commercial objects for which we are contending
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They seem not to have admitted the term into their vocabulary; they treat it as a new language; they remind me of the character of Goldfinch in one of Holcroft's plays, who, when he hears the Romans mentioned, exclaims, "Romans! Romans! who are they?" So the gentlemen, "national honor! what's that? what's that?" Yet, sir, strange as it may seem to the honorable gentlemen over the way, the maintenance of the principle of national honor, by which I mean that principle which animates and sustains an elevated fitness of character and conduct, is the only justifiable cause of war; and, if necessary, the principle ought to be maintained by all the sacrifices of war in its worst shape
