The circumstances of my existence hitherto have been so peculiarly fortunate that I am justified in expecting such a suitor.
I certainly felt myself justified to prepare you for the worst last night; at one time she appeared to be sinking.
Moreover, I felt that if I could not go into the first cabin, first-cabin passengers could come into the second cabin, and the result justified my anticipations to the fullest extent.
I have often thought I should like to explain to you the grounds upon which I have justified myself in running away from you.
As society has marked me out as privileged plunder, on the principle of self-preservation I am justified in plundering in turn.
A month slipped imperceptibly away before I had got rid of the arrears of work and felt justified in taking on extra burdens.
The speaker kept his temper; his hearers had lost theirs from the outset, I should imagine, and this possibly amused him and justified the effort.
But you know the constitutional theory; you're not justified in upsetting a government unless you're prepared to go to Buckingham Palace and take on the job of forming a new administration.
His murder had been plotted; Sussex had certainly endeavoured to entrap him treacherously; his detention in England had been technically justified by a distinctly dishonourable trick.
It is the accumulation of suspicious circumstances which makes the presumption lean heavily to guilt; but it remains no more than a presumption; no jury would have been justified in convicting.
The event had justified Henry's management of a very difficult situation.
An irresistible instrument of tyranny was created, justified of course by the usual argument that without such powers it was not possible to deal adequately with the abnormal dangers of the situation.
She might have avowed and justified the Act; disavowing it, the only logical course was to punish those on whom the guilt lay.
From the prudential point of view, Elizabeth wasjustified by the event.
Philip's plans were quite unaffected by the talk of peace; but the English were justified in their confidence that the Armada would not be ready to sail in time.
From all these details, we may fairly bejustified in ascribing this work to about the middle of the sixteenth century.
The Bechuanaland Rifles at their baptism of fire behaved steadily and well, and Captain Cowan was well justified at his pride in his men.
These are only matters of regimental interest, but as the publication is dedicated to the regiment, I feel justified in giving these details.
Addressing, with his surprising and justified confidence, the instincts of the newly-born, he follows the human mind opening gradually to the spectacle of living.
But, in addition to this, we are justified in doubting the strict wording of the Newtonian law, deriving our authority from the very foundation stone of the Newtonian theory.
But the universe seems full of motion, and we are not justified in supposing, because a star shows no such light, that it is without rotation.
Others have also remarked the same, and if we couple this fact with the suggestion just made, we arejustified in suspecting that a greater quantity of cometic dust comes down the northern pole of the vortex than down the southern.
Fabian and Gusty Pell ought to have had ten thousand a year apiece, to have justified it.
If so, I should not, in your interests, be justified in refusing this.
Many an odd shilling that she had thought justified in spending, she would willingly have recalled now.
I should not go if he lived here at the next door, Johnny Ludlow: should not be justified in going on such an errand.
And, if I could, I should not consider myself justified in troubling Sir Robert.
That being justifiedby his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of Eternal life.
Moreover, the apparent glorification of the Twelve is more than justified by the promise which Jesus is represented by the Synoptics(l) as making to them in person.
But neither are we justified in saying ‘peace, peace,’ when there is no peace; or in holding out illusory representations which every discerning observer must perceive to be unfounded.
But he spoke without confidence of the like abstention being justified in the future.
She would be quite justified now in relaxing from the exalted serenity, tempered with due humility, of a spiritual instructress, and referring to the minor consolations of this earth.
The insinuation that she would do so was based on Sibyl's knowledge that she would have been perfectly justified in doing so.
However, I think I shall be justified in not reading that bit to her father.
At any rate, those were the lines on which Miss Fossett would have justified her friend's defiance of his Bishop.
But Challis could see in it nothing that justified more than a languid "All right!
Illingworth was not justified in saying that a small shed on the land, in the last stages of disintegration, could be utilized for a motor-garage .
Athelstan--or Yorick, as she always called him and thought of him--that a certain amount of playing double was justified by the circumstances.
Perhaps the use of the Camel's milk might be justified by saying that the prohibition extended only to eating and not to drinking, and that therefore the milk might be used though the flesh was prohibited.
How far are we justified in regarding this as a picture of the manner in which evolution works?
As it seemed impossible to fill our mission, we felt justified in concluding to return.
My spirit was weighed down with gloomy forebodings, and I would gladly have left the place could I have felt justified in doing so.
In the talk I rather justified them in what they expected to do, but told them that in the end it would be worse for them to carry out their plans than to drop them, and smoke the pipe of peace.
I had been away so much, that my family seemed badly in need of my help at home, and I, at the time, thought I was justified in remaining with them.
They said that they felt justifiedin what they had done, and also in what they intended to do.
A De Medici, and a sixteenth century Cardinal may well have persuaded himself that he was justified under the circumstances, in adopting the only possible means of providing against such treason, pregnant with such results.
No such doubt, however, obscures the fact, that his career abundantly justified the wisdom of Donna Olympia's speculation.
And it was not long before the suspicions, which had dictated this surveillance, were justified by the event.
Roman point of view, might be regarded as a needless excrescence on the poem, is justified by the consideration that they are celebrated in honour of the Manes of Anchises.
And the security of the Empire established in his day justifiedhim in looking forward to the future with even a more assured confidence, though perhaps in a less sanguine spirit.
Loyalty to a person appealed to the imagination with the charm of novelty, and might be justified to the conscience of the world, as being, for that time and the times that came after, the necessary bond of civil order and union.
If the Greeks were justified in making war against the Trojans on account of Helen, the Italians may be justified in making war against the same people on account of Lavinia.
For Hungary was an elective monarchy, and the republican constitution of the country justified to himself their demands, and to the Roman Catholic world his concessions.
The wretched condition in which he hoped to surprise the insurgents, justified the rapidity of the duke's movements, and secured him the victory.
Bohemians; and among them all, there was no one in whose case the private interests of particular Estates, and the attachment of the people, seemed to be justified by so many considerations of state.
The Bohemians justified it as a national custom, and saw nothing remarkable in the whole affair, excepting that any one should have got up again safe and sound after such a fall.
This description can in no other case be applied to Mr. Webster's parliamentary efforts, but in this instance it is correct, because the occasion justifiedsuch a form.
But such a sacrifice was fullyjustified by what was achieved.
He also deemed him better fitted by mind and temperament for politics than for the law, an opinion fully justified in the future, despite Mr. Webster's eminence at the bar.
In these matters Ha'o had justified him to the fullest, and had shown himself an apt, not to say an ambitious, pupil.
Nai's community in his dangers and sufferings had concentrated all his savage affections upon her, and now she had justified him by giving him a son.
Not until we are justified from our old sins and born again does He witness that we are children of God; and when He does so witness, these secondary evidences always follow.
Well, I considered myself justifiedin denying it," Anna answered drily.
I feel justified then," he said, "in annexing his chair.
I for one, say that they were justified in this course, the protection of their liberty, honor and lives.
On the same ground he would have justified the omission of much that was characteristic and the exaggeration of much that was normal.
And though his action was disapproved by the later generations, it was justified by his subsequent conduct; for it was he who, by founding the famous college at Jabneh, kept alive the Jewish spirit after the fall of the nation.
He pointed to the fulfilment of prophecy only so far as it predicted and justified the destruction and ruin of his people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "justified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
