Purplewashing is an expression that refers to the use of feminism as an excuse for intolerable attitudes like Islamophobia.

The lack of institutional facilities cannot in this case be accepted as a basis for justifying the delay .

No evidence that Shawqi had anything to do with that bogus a Sharq al Awsat article, but could still be an excuse for militias to kidnap her Nathaniel Rabkin ( NateRabkin) December 28, 2016

Those concepts run the risk of being invoked in the future as a pretext for aggression against our countries.

The Bush administration knew what it was doing when it declared war on terror and used that pretext for invading Iraq.

High public debt is also being invoked in support of fiscal austerity in many developed countries.

Secondly, Afghan ownership should not mean, nor should it be used as an excuse for, reducing the level of international assistance to Afghanistan.

If so, Israel might use it as a pretext to crush the Palestinians and their newly built institutions.

Munich was also produced as a justification for the Vietnam War and President Bush s war of choice in Iraq.

And the SPLM fears that Bashir would use a vote in favor of independence in the south as justification to resume all out war.

More often, however, the cleansing is a pretext to change political direction after the people have voted in a way that magistrates oppose.

Yet Erdogan has also been eager to use Europe s requirements as a pretext to curb the army s capacity to check his Islamic revolution.

Rajab also tweeted that the attacks on ISIS should not be used as an excuse for the deteriorating human rights conditions in the Gulf countries

Combating terrorism must not be used as a pretext to suppress freedom of the press and specifically not as a justification for attacks on individual journalists.

The principle of non intervention cannot be used to shield genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

For indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, data collection exercises should not be used as a pretext for establishing forced contact.

Still, it would be a mistake for the Chinese government to treat the events in Thailand as an excuse to postpone political reform.

Moreover, the overstatement of the threat posed by Iran is also being used as a convenient excuse for political inflexibility and stagnating reform processes throughout the region.

Pessimists note that our mounting economic woes around the world are being used as an excuse for inaction on cuts in carbon emissions.

It is very often stated in this room that the security interests of States are of a special character. This is true, but this cannot be used as a pretext for inflexibility or either my position or nothing behaviour.

Likewise, it would be better if powerful Frenchmen were to stop using Latin culture as an excuse for abusing their social inferiors.

Many suspect that an engineered bloodbath that leads to army intervention, and the declaration of a national emergency, could serve as a pretext to postpone the October 2007 elections.

No State party to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) should use the lack of a verification protocol as justification for failing to take effective national level measures.

Russian officials intimate that the US is using the threat of a North Korean or Iranian attack on the US with nuclear armed ballistic missiles as a pretext to erect defenses against Russia (and probably China).

It was a fundamental principle of law that freedom came with responsibility and self determination could not be used as an instrument to promote subversion and erode the political cohesion or territorial integrity of Member States of the United Nations.

The building of the wall was not only illegal under international law but also served as a pretext for the occupation of even more land, and was making a negotiated settlement even harder to achieve.

Right now, each side is emerging from a period in which they used the other as an excuse for inaction, but have nonetheless now actively started to explore which scenario to follow.

How large will it be? Apart from the very generic terms used to describe it, what are to be its objectives? We in Venezuela have some experience with the promotion of democracy being used as a pretext.

And, given the determination of both the Israeli and Iranian governments to use each other s intransigence as an excuse for their own, Europe must also be prepared to use its economic muscle on Iran if and when the mullahs reject Obama s extended hand.

In the 1990 s, placating financial markets was also invoked to justify the reappointment of Bernanke s predecessor, Alan Greenspan, and it is now perennially invoked to block change at the Fed and other central banks.

This is why Mr. Papadopoulos in his speech states that the existence of the United Nations negotiating framework cannot serve as a pretext for postponing or refusing o fulfil these obligations (by Turkey within the context of the EU) .

Many now believe that Bashir will seek to prevent the referendum from taking place, or to use its result as a pretext to return to war with the South with devastating consequences across the Horn of Africa.

An existing border dispute was used as a pretext to launch a swift invasion (one that caught Nehru s India by surprise), inflict a humiliating defeat, and then stage a seemingly magnanimous unilateral withdrawal designed to highlight India s impotence.

On the one hand, many participants expressed reservations about the notion of international responsibility to protect civilians threatened by genocide or other extreme violations of human rights, fearing that it would be used by powerful States as a pretext for intervention in less powerful ones.

This, in fact, is also the legal position of those who ratified the Geneva Conventions No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.

It would no doubt be better, especially for women, if the citizens of countries like Afghanistan were equal before the law. Likewise, it would be better if powerful Frenchmen were to stop using Latin culture as an excuse for abusing their social inferiors.

Thus, we all have the obligation to accept others and not reject them because of religious belief, lifestyle or cultural background. Religion should not be used as a pretext to marginalize or exclude others. We need to ensure that a culture of tolerance prevails, because hot spots of tension can emerge where extremism exists.

Yet Erdogan has also been eager to use Europe s requirements as a pretext to curb the army s capacity to check his Islamic revolution. The election of his political ally, Abdullah Gul, as president, against the army s will indeed, against the entire Kemalist tradition is a case in point.

The Palestinian Authority, which runs the West Bank, is afraid that a popular, non violent intifada might quickly turn violent. If so, Israel might use it as a pretext to crush the Palestinians and their newly built institutions.