Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

This time my justification was that they were victims of violence and hatred. Victims with a righteous cause against a world that had ignored them and everything that had happened to them.

The ministry also stated that if Japanese students cannot respect their own symbols, then they will not be able to respect the symbols of other nations.

Moreover, it granted Russian citizenship to Abkhaz and South Ossetian residents, and then justified its recent invasion of Georgia on the grounds that it had an obligation to protect Russian citizens.

Strategic hawks, however, are open to practical bargains and compromises if the circumstances are right and if the security considerations justify it in their eyes.

One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonized people adopted some of the very prejudices that justified colonial rule.

So far, the Arab revolts have vindicated the assumption that, given the structure of most Arab societies, toppling secular autocracies inevitably means opening the door to Islamic democracies.

Accordingly, such measures should be lifted as soon as the emergency which justified their imposition no longer exists or can be managed by less intrusive means under the relevant instrument.

First, the United States justified the Israeli assault and blamed everything on Hamas, just as it used to pin all responsibility for whatever went wrong on Yasir Arafat and Fatah.

China justified its decision to veto the draft resolution, saying it wants to promote peace in Syria, and Russia claims to hope for a diplomatic approach to resolving the conflict in the country.

This has justified UN sanctioned interventions in Northern Iraq in 1991 to protect the Kurds, and in Somalia from 1992 to 1995 in the absence of state power.

He discussed the disenfranchisement of voters of African descent on the basis of their failure to register and their consequent absence from the voting rolls and considered such a factor as one that had historically grounded their political marginalization in some Diaspora countries.

These criticisms have had some justification behind them, but looking at the broad picture I think that we can definitely say that the United Nations has amply justified its existence and repeatedly prevented our recurrent crises from developing into war.

The treating psychiatrist had explained, and the court had accepted, that the views she had formed about the author's condition at the end of the examination were provisional, and that she had to await the receipt of the author's psychiatric documentation before reaching her final conclusion.

The refusal to resume dialogue had stopped producing any fresh results, and the only argument that justified it that it was a source of leverage gave some in India the illusion of influence over events that the government did not in fact possess.

By calling them war and naming an opponent, usually al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden the United States government has justified domestic changes that, before the 9 11 attacks, would have been unacceptable in any free country.

The administration of President Bill Clinton justified the attacks, dubbed Operation Infinite Reach, on the grounds that the al Shifa plant was involved with processing the deadly nerve agent VX, and had ties with the Islamist al Qaeda group of Osama bin Laden, which was believed to be behind the embassy bombings and Operation Bojinka.