In the interview, the man admitted to the shooting as a justifiable act to defend the Iranian regime.

Both pay a terrible price, living out their lives suffering with their moral conscious for so-called "justifiable acts," she said.

There have been a great number of attempts to explain away plagiarism as a justifiable act with plenty of artistic and historical precedent.

I am not ashamed of what I did: I obeyed orders in a justifiable act against the enemy.

The Code deals with wrongful acts: liability, compensation and exemptions to liability (justifiable acts).

In no case is there any link to the Highest of the East that could not be supported as a justifiable act in the course of duty."

The order, no one doubted, had come from the Duke of Burgundy, who shortly admitted to the deed and declared it to be a justifiable act of "tyrannicide".

Abortion-rights supporters renewed charges that the violence was rooted in a small network of people with extreme anti-abortion views who consider killing a justifiable act in defense of the unborn.

He said her death was a "tragic accident" and a legally justifiable act under existing lethal-force policies that would not result in any punishment against the sharpshooter, Lon Horiuchi, or anyone else.

I had no sympathy for Mr. McVeigh, but I do feel tremendous sorrow for a country that still believes that executing its own citizens is a justifiable act of retribution.

From Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on down, they say that these killings are justifiable acts of self-defense and that other countries would do much the same thing if their citizens' lives were at stake.

"In events like this, opinion dichotomizes between those who say it was purely a racial killing and those who say it was a justifiable act or just an accident," Mr. Loizeaux said.

Dr. Kevorkian's martyrdom - self-imposed as it is - will speed the day when voluntary euthanasia for the dying is removed from the legal classification of murder and recognized as a justifiable act of compassion.

The artillery attacks are a "totally justifiable act of self-defence" in response to the South's sea drills, an unofficial spokesman for North Korea has said, warning that nuclear war could follow "at any point" unless the exercises stop.

There his attack on Sumner was seen as a legitimate and socially justifiable act, upholding the honor of his family (and the South as a whole) in the face of intolerable insults from a social inferior (and the North as a whole).

Do the United Nations conventions not make provision for the right of peoples to self-determination without tutelage or external colonialist interference, and do they not regard the struggle for self-determination by various means, including force, as a legitimate and justifiable act that is in no way related to terrorism?

To the Editor: Clifford Alexander's assertion that Gen. Colin L. Powell's promotion to general was not aided by a justifiable act of fairness is contradicted by his own words ("Colin Powell's Promotion: The Real Story," Op-Ed, Dec. 23).