No cause or belief can possibly justify the use of terror and indiscriminate violence against civilians.

The third option is to use environmental protection to justify moving China ahead with real political reform sooner rather than later.

Radicals use the inability to attain political objectives peacefully to inspire fanatical action and to justify forms of violence normally considered unacceptable.

This Security Council decision should put an end to attempts to use the mass media to spread terrorist ideas and to justify terrorism.

She suggested that the President of the Gambia might use his power to appoint women to office, invoking the Convention to justify his action.

Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.

It considered that the extent of the private use did not constitute reasonable and objective criteria, which would justify discrimination between commuters, who use a company car for more than 1,000 kilometres per year and commuters who use it for less than 1,000 kilometres per year.

Now the company can justify such expenditure.

Confucianism has been combined with Legalism, China s other main political tradition, to justify such practices as blind obedience to the ruler, subordination of women, and the use of harsh punishments.

Likewise, one s clan and lineage affiliations are sometimes difficult to sort out and this is what people use most to justify the history and current reality of exploitative labor practices.

The extent of his private use of the car could not justify his unequal treatment, given that other long distance commuters using a company car equally polluted the environment, even if their private use of the car did not exceed 1,000 kilometres per year.

Nor does the summit s agenda justify holding it there.

No reasons were given to justify his arrest

No reasons were given to justify his arrest.

This served to justify the premium placed on female chastity.

Those differences justify, retrospectively, the spirit of the Franco German initiative.

PALO ALTO People everywhere are increasingly vulnerable to the use of what Nobel Prize winning chemist Irving Langmuir dubbed pathological science the science of things that aren t so to justify government regulation or other policies.

though he should offer excuses to justify his failings .

though he should offer excuses to justify his failings .

Who profits? Does anything justify what the local community goes through?

We also reminded the parties that one violation cannot justify another.

As the new research shows, we should be especially cautious about the claims of politicians who use current events to justify the old, ineffective climate change policies on the new and equally problematic basis of energy security.

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

To warn whoever is alive and justify the word against the disbelievers .

The complexity of the case was insufficient to justify such a delay.

So that's a very good reason beyond curiosity to justify what we're doing, and to justify having some interest in what is going on in our brains.

These governments justify their decisions on security and economic grounds.

This last argument can be used to justify any policy.

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

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

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

But it must never be used to justify aggression against others.

But exploiting history to justify current violence will not work forever.

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

Otherwise, there is nothing that can justify any kind of censorship.

There are several grounds on which to justify ESM in services.

Nothing, not even security concerns, could justify such inhumane, criminal acts.

These two examples justify my description of the euro crisis as a nightmare.

The question is what must the cutters and slashers believe to justify their policies?

I do not justify the actions of the OMON commander, but I understand him.

Russia is openly breaking those rules and no longer bothering to justify itself under international law. Instead, it boasts of reclaiming territories once ruled by the Kremlin and threatens to use force to protect ethnic Russians from purported threats.

Muslim women in strict authoritarian societies do not usually have the option of seeking the law s protection. Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.

The separatists are trying to develop a pseudoscientific narrative to justify their political project.

Now the Fukushima tragedy is being used to justify continuing these economically dubious programs.

This however does not justify the blatant lack of interest from international media outlets.