Word Finder - justification

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A reason, explanation, or excuse which provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

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The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).

I know that isn't justification for our actions.

The justification of this statement is found in the literary collection of writings known by his name.

There is no justification for Labor 's failure to remedy these injustices.

The large sacs which have been termed vagina are suggestive of the large coelomic spermathecae in Eudrilids, a comparison which needs, however, embryological data, not at present forthcoming, for its justification.

The confidence with which the great cities of Og were identified with the extensive remains of ancient sites in the Leja and Hauran has also been shown to be without justification.

I do n't care what cultural justification there might be, it is absolutely revolting.

These confirmations, as they are called, should be carefully recorded in all critical texts, inasmuch as they constitute the most striking justification of the critical method.

It was in the Roman state that military action - in Greece often purposeless and, except in the resistance to Persia, on the whole fruitless - worked out the social mission which formed its true justification.

In due course the Jewish authorities were forced to draw up a canon or book of sacred scriptures, and mark them off from those which claimed to be such without justification.

This charge was not without some justification.

A careful and thorough exegesis will show the hollowness of this justification.

Also, the Passover Lamb could be sacrificed on the Sabbath, and justification for this was found in Num.

His Lenten sermon to the council, on justification, caused much remark.

In spite of significant omissions (the sole authority of scripture; rejection of transubstantiation), the Confession contains nothing contradictory to Luther's position, and in its emphasis on justification by faith alone enunciates a cardinal concept of the Evangelical churches.

This sanctioned jurisdiction of Catholic bishops, and observance of certain rites, while all were to accept justification by faith (relegating sola to the adiaphora).

The evidence at our disposal, however, gives little justification for such a view.

So also a justification for the doctrine of purgatory is sought in iii.

The ostensible motive for the assassination was a desire to avenge Asahel, and this would be a sufficient justification for the deed according to the moral standard of the time.

Taurellus maintained the necessity of going back to Christianity itself, as at once the superstructure and the justification of philosophy.

He soon felt that the queen's anger was not to be appeased by such a justification.

He has certainly not indulged in a careful reading or point-by-point refutation of Luther, or indeed of any classic Protestant writer on justification.

First, it argues that relativism provides a plausible account of moral justification.

I don't care what cultural justification there might be, it is absolutely revolting.

Justification is not a legal fiction because one day we will be perfectly righteous.

A similar justification was used for the fatal shooting of a Brazilian.

The nation thus becomes the new justification for domestic slavery.

We Russian Social-Democrats declare that we consider such justification sheer sophistry.

This alone shows the totally spurious nature of this justification.

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Before each policy is a " reasoned justification " which explains the thinking behind the policy.

God has also been believed to be the ultimate justification for living a loving and morally upright life.

Furthermore, his moral justification for revision was that times had changed and in his day usury need not have such consequences.

Redemption, justification, regeneration, adoption, forgiveness, reconciliation all mean the same thing - the restoration of the broken family relationship. All depends on the Mediation of Christ, who maintained the filial relationship even to His death, and communicates it to the brotherhood of believers.

He discovered that parliamentary government after all was not the easy and plain task that Pym and Vane had imagined, and Cromwell had in the end no better justification of his rule than that which Strafford had suggested to Charles I., - "parliament refusing (to give support and co-operation in carrying on the government) you are acquitted before God and man."

Theism is an afterthought - the reply to doubt - the attempted reflective justification of what announced it s elf at first as a prophetic certainty.

The great differences between the records of the United States and the United Kingdom seem to afford justification for the view, which has often been expressed, that in America the spirit of hurry and recklessness manifest in many of the activities of the people prevails even among the men on whom rests the grave responsibility of running trains in safety.

Osiander's divergence from Luther's doctrine of justification by faith involved him in a violent quarrel with Melanchthon, who had adherents in Konigsberg, and these theological disputes soon created an uproar in the town.

Amongst these are Estat des fideles apres la mort; Sur l'oraison dominicale; Du mdrite des oeuvres; Traits de la justification; and paraphrases of books of the Old and New Testament.

For a long time the Chronicon imperiale was also attributed to Prosper Tiro, but without the slightest justification.

A genuine concern for local Christianity is the writer's justification for his work, and any idea of fraudulent aims must be dismissed at once.'

When Burghley brought against her the unanswerable charge of having at that moment in her service, and in receipt of an annual pension, the instigator of a previous attempt on the life of Elizabeth, she had the unwary audacity to cite in her justification the pensions allowed by Elizabeth to her adversaries in Scotland, and especially to her son.

He travelled secretly through Kordofan, where (with ample justification) he denounced to the villagers the extortion of the tax-gatherer and told of the coming of the mandi who should deliver them from the oppressor.

One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification.

In addition, it provides a spurious justification for the maintenance and extension of the surveillance state.

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The Director of Quality and Standards shall decide whether there is sufficient justification in the case for presentation to an Appeals Panel.

First was the unquestioned belief that the state does not act as a terrorist, does not kill without reason or justification.

Warped logic When the whole SST project was started little real thought was given to the economic justification for the aircraft in airline service.

There is no justification for closing the entire whitefish sector.

The only justification of a sterling silver item costing significantly more than another of similar weight can be that it is "hand made".