There are valid arguments to made for either course.

This last argument can be used to justify any policy.

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

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

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

The escalating crisis of legitimacy forced the government to invent imaginative ways to justify its power.

Bush and his officials used three main arguments to justify invading Iraq.

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

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

But this has not stopped him from using history to justify his policies.

For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym.

States shall not invoke derogation clauses to justify taking hostages or to impose collective punishments.

Evidence used to justify the arrest of a person must meet all international standards.

Upon request, the Advisory Committee was provided with workload statistics to support the creation of the Board of Inquiry.

The government uses the threat of terrorist attacks to justify domestic repression of political opponents and the absence of democratic reforms.

Americans also are more aware of how such attacks are used to justify abuses of their own rights.

Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another.

Uganda seems to be seeking a new pretext to justify its negative and harmful interference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Table 3 Comparative analysis of rates of implementation of recommendations of the Board of Auditors for the bienniums 2000 2001 and 2002 2003

But the real case for holding it, then as now, was never a speculative one.

After all, both capitalism and economics need scarcity to justify their existence, and will not give it up readily.

The regime has not succeeded in submitting it and is using the entrance of ISIS to justify its complete destruction.

She was concerned that government condemnation of such appellations could be used to justify discrimination at the local level.

None of these delegations has however presented any specific reasons for why they would like to have such a regulation.

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.

I had been using the first line of the NASA mission statement, To understand and protect the home planet, to justify my talks.

The news media typically present reasons to justify the view that the economy has entered a new era.

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

Continuing to assume the resumption of pre crisis growth was necessary to justify postponing hard decisions.

Similarly, some of the results reported by Reinhart and Rogoff have been used by politicians and others to justify fiscal austerity.

Thus, in the presentation of the requirements for the support account, every attempt should be made to justify the totality of resources.

Western (and, indeed, Japanese) imperialists used it in the early twentieth century to justify their missions to civilize or modernize the natives.

Taiwanese scholar Lee Hsiao feng has recently argued that the concept Chinese is a meaningless word that was fabricated to justify rule over minorities.

Another, Martin Balluch, has been given a 1,500 page police file to justify his arrest.

The wolf s justifications for his evil action were a luxury that he allowed himself. At present, the United Nations Charter legally binds wolf states that is, the Great Powers to offer justifications for their use of armed violence.

In the past, much attention was rightly paid to ius ad bellum the necessary conditions for justifying the use of force and to ius in bello the legal parameters of ethical behaviour during war.

However, it points out that there are no exceptional circumstances of any kind which may be invoked to justify torture.

Nor could the right to self determination be invoked to justify territorial expansion, through terrorism and violence.

It was important to remember that Israel had repeatedly used the pretext of security to justify illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.

The vendor relied expressly on article 71 CISG to justify its suspension of delivery due to the buyer's failure regarding payment.

Justifying the killings of black Africans, a leading Arab commentator invoked Stalin One can t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

This belief justified, or rationalized, the de regulation of financial markets in the name of the so called efficient market hypothesis.

It also recommends that measures be taken to ensure the confidentiality of the reasons women give for seeking asylum, as they often request it.

The Committee considers that these reasons advanced by the State party are reasonable and sufficient to justify the interference with the author's family life.

In general, they use selected incidents of terrorism, exploiting terrorism as much as possible and using it as a pretext for Western violence.