Sentences with phrase «justification for taking»

When you look at the upside and downside of taking the right approach, there's no justification for taking the wrong approach.»

Our last justification for taking a pay cut involves that category of compensation that's just a bit harder to measure.

The government's justification for taking the extraordinary step of imposing mandatory minimum penalties on an offence designed essentially to combat tax cheats was vague and illusory.

They provide no justification for taking the very costly and drastic actions advocated in some circles to mitigate «global warming», which Eqn.

At any rate, there is no justification for taking these two temperature segments that meet at an angle, draw a straight line through them, and calling it a baseline for the twenty - first century.

Our extracurriculars do not involve a load of equipment (another conscious decision), nor do we concern ourselves with transporting other people's children (an absurd justification for taking on the financial burden of a large vehicle).

Nor do I think that Barnes & Noble management ever felt that there was an operational justification for taking their already troubled digital division and merging it with an operating company that has a bunch of management contracts with bricks & mortar college bookstores, where digital is but a fraction of the revenue.

In place of ascribing preferred definitional clarity, Martin immediately proceeds to offer a rich sketch of the generative importance of mise en scène for film criticism and scholarship in providing a kind of justification for the taking - seriously of cinema that specifically addresses film style — and through this, often, authorship — before and beyond the more «literary» concerns of narrative and character.

The dairy industry's desire to increase its flavored milk sales in public schools is not a sufficient justification for taking potential risks with students» long term health.

Other than concerns at RT, another justification for taking an OT high would be as a potential backup to Bahktiari should he get injured.

There may have been and there may still be justification for our taking upon ourselves this responsibility in some cases, but there is a danger that it may become an unexamined habit.

But this is no justification for taking action that is against the interests of most Mexicans as well as most persons in the United States.

The Saudis» corruption crackdown opened up a chasm under the tech industry's justification for taking money from the religious monarchy, NYT reports.

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They have the right to take devices away from travelers for five days without providing justification.

Though Keynes is noted for saying «the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,» this statement can not be taken as justification for participating in overextended speculative bubbles.

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.

Hence, presumably all such conflicts ¯ real and imagined ¯ can be taken as justification for abortion and for abortion rights.

What was the justification for allocating more land for the Jews by taking it from Palestine when the population density of Israel was more than sufficient to accommodate the returning Jews?

@Positron: What was the justification for allocating more land [after 1950] for the Jews by taking it from Palestine when the population density of Israel was more than sufficient to accommodate the returning Jews?

We used to ridicule those who talked about justification by faith because that talk seemed to be an excuse for them not to take Jesus» call to discipleship seriously.

I felt the Shalom of God, his unity on earth as it is in heaven, slip away as believers took sides, rallied together in disgust, and used «rights» and «amendments» as justification for ignoring the suffering of their African - American sisters and brothers in Christ.

But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

Perhaps his forgiveness of us might evoke in us, if only for a moment, a willingness to wonder about the pride we take in our modernity, our self - sufficiency, our self - justification.

The appeals to God were not mere camouflage, nor were they simply a justification for the immediate action to be taken.

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

Since Girard's thesis is that the gospel of Jesus Christ has inexorably through the ages taken rationales for violence away from us by revealing the gods who demand violence as idols, the West has finally reached the point of secularity, the point at which the divine justifications drop away altogether.

Indeed, its enduring importance may lie less in its empirical accuracy than in the summum malum it was taken to describe, the horror of conformism — the silent justification for that diamond - stud piercing or subtle tattoo or pony - tail by which today's businessman or professor tries to reassure himself that he is still a man born to be wild.

I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of man, that who so ever believes that Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but all of the sins of mankind upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?

a justification process for those who ABUSE... thatis no reason to take religion out... so as for the living God... ok... so eternal life for the child is a bad thing to you huh?

It took forty years for one of history's most productive intellects in the most opportune moment — in, perhaps, the kairotic moment — in American intellectual history to reach, in the nick of time, a philosophical and theological justification for the unorthodox action he had taken in his twenties.

It is apparently designed to give historical justification for the observance of the feast of Purim, which the Jews may have taken over from the Persians during their captivity.

Thus, for the most part, normative justifications will take place with reference to these already available moral orders.

And whatever it takes, musically speaking, for that to happen is its own justification.

It was then that the medical and legal justifications for assisted suicide and euthanasia took root - a decade or more before the Nazis came on the scene.

Two thousand years later and we've gone a bit backwards, using Scripture taken out of context for the justification of sin.

But in that case why did it not yield to the judgment that convenience, or the avoidance of embarrassment, could not possibly be taken as the justification for killing any other human being?

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

With an amazing 43 goals in La Liga, Lionel Messi takes the place on this right - hand side with little need for justification.

The justification for all of this will be if Bryan defeats Triple H, the man holding him back from his career taking that next step, the Final Boss and A + player of WWE as it were.

As for the matter of Rio Ferdinand's lost captaincy on Terry's return, it was always hard to see the justification for Ferdinand's role given that he had served an eight - month suspension for failing to take that drug test at the Manchester United training ground.

If your spouse has started to take almost every opportunity to criticize the things that you do and say, this could be an indication that they are seeking justification for the decision they have made in their mind, to end the relationship and seek a divorce.

Authorities faced rebellions from within, as doctrinal justifications for the deposing of ungodly rulers took hold.

Given the illegality of the settlements, as well as the evident harm that they do to the prospects for peace, Mr Dayan's talk thus offered an interesting opportunity to take stock of the justifications for Israel's West Bank settlement program.

The prime minister added: «There is no justification for hostage - taking and I call on those people who are holding the other Iraqi and British hostages to release them immediately.»

«There is no possible justification for this highly paid individual taking home this enormous windfall.

I do not begrudge the paper for taking these steps, because... any reasonable person who perceives a current, potential or future threat has * every right to do the same * — but not be stigmatized for it, as I and countless others maintain the paper is attempting with those maps and their limp justification in the ensuing outrage.

Anthony Thomas explained: «One justification for increasing the personal allowance often given is that taking the lowest paid out of tax improves work incentives.

And he said the shadow education secretary was taking the fight to the Conservatives as the Office for Budget Responsibility prepares to unveil the growth and borrowing figures that will provide the statistical justification for tax rises and spending cuts in next week's Budget.