But City Hall insists it is a justifiable investment.

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Is it ever necessary or justifiable to arrest a man in his own home who's not suspected of any other crime, but who is being angry, loud and uncooperative with the police?

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' It is presumably why the Administration accepted Boutros-Ghali's claim of authority to decide when and where NATO air strikes could take place in Bosnia and why the U.S. dispatched crack troops to Somalia without raising serious questions about whether it is prudent, justifiable or in the U.S. interest.

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So all this new wealth is justifiable--because it's going to save humanity?

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It is completely wrong to say there is any justifiable causal link.

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This upside is justifiable if AMD can replicate the success it had with the Opteron series of processors in 2006 with its bulldozer chips to be launched in Q3 as well as its growth in supercomputing technology.

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It may be that the arrest of General Pinochet is justifiable in international law.

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But it is worth asking whether Mr Petrie had given the junta a justifiable pretext for taking umbrage.

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It coarsens our culture, and at its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response.

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