Sentences with phrase «justification for doing»

Even if the Equifax report contained information properly characterized as information about the plaintiffs» «private affairs and concerns,» which was «invaded» by the firm's obtaining the report, the firm had lawful justification for doing so.

You'd be amazed at how many politicians (and I'm thinking of politicians specifically here) take the lack of certainty in the outcome of an event as a justification for doing whatever sounds really good to them at that particular moment in time.

Uncertainty is the reason for acting in the near term, and that uncertainty can not be used as a justification for doing nothing.

When it comes to energy efficiency, the rebound effect has often been used as a justification for doing nothing, since Jevons said greater efficiency would lead to greater consumption, not less.

Nintendo sold us a refurbished Gamecube and called it a new system and used the excuse that motion control is the new standard as the justification for doing so.

Amazon's justification for doing this is that the app is a form of assistive technology.

Of course, something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Doing it less frequently is Better obviously but it's not justification for doing it at all.

It does say, however, that «policymakers should refrain from constraining scientific inquiry unless there is substantial justification for doing so.»

«Under the present law, the courts will not make such a finding, but clause six would provide the courts with a justification for doing so.»

When I talk about Labour representatives forming a meritocracy, it is because that is how they see themselves, that was the justification for doing things that way.

**** Update: Justin Thomas apologized on Monday afternoon for having a fan ousted from the Honda Classic but reiterated his justification for doing so.

If we continue to subscribe to teachings whose effects appear to be in tension with human dignity, we require special justification for doing so.

And many spiritual people have done some horrifically bad things as well, using their faith as a justification for doing all sorts of terrible things.

My only contribution is to name it Christ and to offer theological justification for doing so.

«Because God said so» can never be justification for doing evil deeds in the name of a benevolent being.

The justification for doing so was to make the Senate less partisan and to eliminate patronage.

The business justification for doing it, especially if they all have to go and do individual deals with that Australian company, how much more revenue are you going to get for telling people they can talk on the subway now?

As researchers, we were interested in helping teachers think about and experiment with changes in practice, and their justifications for doing so.

Not exact matches

The self - appointed moralizers calling themselves The Impact Team have no ethical justification for what they've done

While Comey has drawn anger from Democrats since he reopened the email investigation in the closing days of last year's campaign, they didn't buy that justification for his firing.

But even if it doesn't, the potential for improving Canadians» quality of life through better transit, safer water, and so forth is justification enough.

Fear is a justification for hunkering down and doing nothing.»

However, our current system does not tax the imputed rental income that homeowners receive, so the justification for giving a deduction for the costs of earning that income is not clear.

Third, the justification for the increase in the lapse is done using the Estimates spending data.

The primary justification for their proposal is that an inflation - rate target is costly because it does not permit long - run predictability of the price level, which has first - order welfare effects in their models.

I see atheists doing exactly the same thing, saying «we just don't know» as a justification for things that contradict physical laws and reason.

«I don't know» just doesn't cut it as a justification for those stating confidently that there is no God.

Often, we justify many of these opportunities implicitly or explicitly with the singular notion that «this is what adults do» — as though «this is what adults do» were on its own merit an appropriate justification for a thing.

If you worship an invisible god, you'd better damn well keep your religion invisible as well and quit using it as a justification for every evil thing you do to other people.

The question is, do we have a rational justification for what our highest standard is?

But then when something doesn't work, you go out of your way to not take it at face value and make «justifications» (aka excuses) for it.

However, for those leaning toward violence it does offer cosmic justification to take that next step.

The justification for this trespass is participation in a divine drama, which gives them default authority to do so.

It IS ad hominem if you do nt give justification for why I am an antisemetic bigot... I can assure you that I am not.

Even the evangelical New Bible Dictionary has to admit that Yahweh does not give a moral justification for his actions against job.9 Yahweh's answer out of the whirlwind is essentially an expression of raw cosmic power, not a compassionate response to Job's legitimate concerns.

Why did all those good Christians, the ones that people nowadays like to point to as being so like the Founding Fathers, point to their OTs as justification for owning slaves?

This was the justification for everything he was doing — because I was not a good Muslim girl, I deserved everything I got.»

I'm one of the many outside who don't care to sit around your tables anymore, we don't play by your rules, we don't need your justification, we're not really longing for your approval, we're beyond the reach of your tiny boxes and narrow constructs and boundary marker believership.

Bonhoeffer's reluctant involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler certainly does not provide unambiguous Christian justification for resorting to violence and war.

But this has always been Matthew Weiner's justification for the Mad Men style of character development (or non-development): People don't change in straight lines.

Per verse 15 we see that the resurrection is necessary for our justification, but does not say that belief in it is necessary.

In doing this they did strictly philosophical work, appealing for justification only to the norms of philosophy.

There is really no justification for continuing to commit time and money to schools that provide a vaguely Christian approach to fundraising for charity and respect for other people; after all, many non-religious schools do this perfectly adequately.

Naturally I do not deny that the Holy Spirit may intervene and give direction to our action; but the possibility of the Spirit's intervention is no justification for rushing pell - mell into action, just for the sake of action; for yielding to some emotion, sentiment, visceral reaction, on the plea that «God will turn it to account» or, worse, in the conviction that this visceral reaction is tantamount to a divine commandment or a prophetic insight.

The justification for civil punishment provides such a problem, as does the controversy over the justice of abortion.

Perhaps he is not really committed to the ~ eti ~ na of CE alone providing adequate justification for the accuracy of that experience; perhaps he does not believe that the experience of CE is self - justifying, despite his explicit exposition, which would then have to be regarded as an unfortunate misstatement.

Until someone does something to you, you really have no justification for not accepting them.

That is, the big question about justification for Paul was not How do I find gracious God?

The declaration presents no philosophical justification for human rights, nor does it describe in detail what political arrangements they might require.