But whether that course is legally justifiable is a decision for the courts to make.

The British claim that more lethal, but legally justifiable as they are not considered chemical weapons under the Chemical Weapons Convention, white phosphorus grenades were used.

Short of any outright auditing (which has no legally justifiable basis), firms have a fair amount of plausible deniability.

Caro suggested that Robert's subsequent treatment of Paul may have been legally justifiable but was morally questionable.

The court held that the killing of an innocent person by compulsion is never legally justifiable.

It is still unclear whether the U.S. invasion of Iraq is legally justifiable and at the same time, the Iraqis' resistance of the attack is justifiable.

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.

Furthermore, if there is a desire to maintain national monopolies, the system must be non-discriminatory and legally justifiable.

Consumer rights must also be economically and legally justifiable.

Instead a new version - one that appeared legally justifiable but that ran counter to the facts - was signed by Mr. Scott.