These may not justify terrorism, but they do explain it.

The end justifies the means.

We are taught early on in our lives that the end cannot justify the means.

Nor is the global financial crisis a justification for the world s leaders failing to keep their word.

Circumstances were such that the decision was perhaps understandable.

Thus, antipathy for the adversary or his avowed policies cannot justify non compliance with the laws of war.

Now the company can justify such expenditure.

These governments justify their decisions on security and economic grounds.

Only when the importance of the task warrants the effort do we shift gear and deploy the System II heavy artillery.

There are arguments for caution in this process.

He argues that this delay was not justified by the complexity of the case.

There were no circumstances justifying such restriction of the trial.

Without a clear end that justifies it, sacrifice becomes meaningless.

That is the oldest excuse to justify wrongdoing the end justifies the means.

Nor can the political climate, old differences, and the by no means new power rivalry between Russia and the US justify pessimism.

But the recent price surge looks suspiciously like a bubble, with the increase only partly justified by economic fundamentals.

After all, we attach moral value to processes as well as outcomes, as in the phrase the end does not justify the means.

Force majeure justifies non performance of the obligation for so long as the circumstance exists supervening impossibility justifies the termination of the treaty or its suspension in accordance with the conditions laid down in article 61.

Finally, no matter what the facts on race and intelligence turn out to be, they will not justify racial hatred, nor disrespect for people of a different race.

Some of the recent economic news has seemed to justify this approach.

The justification for canceling elections in Russia is the need to fight terrorism the end that now justifies all means.

Such actions and attitudes amply justify my dissent of October 2004.

No cause justifies the indiscriminate unleashing of terror upon the innocent.

We understand the reasons underlying the selection of cases on the basis of their gravity.

Are security and political interests so overwhelming that they justify assuming large and unlimited liabilities incurred by political systems over which they have no control?

Rather, any biological agents could be considered a weapon if they are 'of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes'.

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There is also a Machiavellian explanation for the replacement of Monti.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory but not before God.

Nor does the closed door succession process at the Bank, where the US continued its sixty year lock on the Presidency, justify continuing European monopolization of the Fund job.

The court also considered that certain grounds set out in the application clearly lacked any foundation in the Constitution which would justify a decision as to substance.

Indeed, there is little evidence of serious anti competitive practices that would warrant ex ante market regulation, at least not in the main markets for interconnection services.

Mr. Nikiforov (Russian Federation) said that the human rights situation in Uzbekistan did not warrant the draft resolution, which was a political step and did not aim at promoting human rights in that country.

Western leaders must now ask themselves whether the ends justify the means.

Discussions have focused on the description and analysis of specific situations potentially justifying the use of ESM.

There is absolutely no rule of international law that justifies a blockade in peacetime.

The SSI agents did not present any arrest warrant or other document justifying Mr. El Derini's arrest.

War might lead to changes that would justify invoking the theory of changed conditions.

Thus, the view was expressed that the suggested exceptions to the general rule applied only to the limited cases in which the need for protection seemed to justify such exceptions.

The differences in missions and in structure do not warrant different rating schedules.

It concluded that the complainant's information about his political activities and that he had been subjected to torture did not justify the conclusion that he would risk political persecution or torture in Bangladesh if returned there.

The arguments advanced by the authors and the evidence adduced to this purpose do not show that the judicial decisions suffered from defects that might warrant admitting this part of the communication.

Iraq asserts that Kuwait's preliminary public health study results, cited as justification for the proposed epidemiological study, are unreliable.

The declaration shall be withdrawn immediately if warranted by the security situation within which the emergency humanitarian assistance is delivered.