Sentences with phrase «justification for their actions»

«Forget the money, forget the fines, this is about making an institution heel,» Cramer said, adding that the government is using events like the London Whale trading debacle as justification for its actions.

They are famous for their door - to - door evangelizing and for refusing blood transfusions; they believe there is scriptural justification for all their actions and beliefs.

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.

He is equating the theological justification for actions... not the actions themselves.

What else is religion for but to fill in gaps — in our knowledge of how the world should work, in our justifications for our actions, in our responsibility for things we ought to do something about but don't?

As he and three equally evil boon companions rampage across the stage, committing one atrocity after another with delirious gaiety, they also spin out elaborate but perfectly cogent rational justifications for their actions, of an almost proto - Nietzschean kind.

Said pens were called concentration camps, I imagine he also found some religious justification for his actions.

But people are violent and will always find justification for their actions.

Second, there is a sense of personal justification for actions: «My wife isn't giving me what I need sexually in the bedroom, so talking sexually on Facebook with my co-worker satisfies that need of mine.»

He is exactly as he presents himself — a violent, unapologetic murderer who used his racist politics as a justification for his actions.

There have been plenty of opportunities for this or, for that matter, any character to bring up the topic as a moral or legal justification for these actions.

When Gil does finally lose it, DeNiro doesn't chew the scenery; he remains rather calm, an appropriate acting choice that conveys Gil's feeling of justification for his actions — and, in the process, appears more menacing and more human.

Interestingly, both of the main plantation owners shown utilize scriptures in the Bible as their justification for their actions, though they only key in on a handful out of context and ignore all of the many, many others that run counter to their twisted philosophy.

The background information provides ample justification for action, while Cook - Sather's experience encourages readers to take action on their own.

You can read about CPS's plans and justifications for their actions at each school here.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Justification for Action After a thorough reading of the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex (FKNWRC) Integrated Predator Management Plan — along with several supporting documents (as described below)-- I am struck by how inadequately the IPMP / EA addresses several critical issues.

As «justification for action,» the IPMP / EA falls well short of what is required; as a public record, it is wholly unacceptable — and, to be very candid about it — an embarrassment to the agency and the people involved.

Even it people on the site are doing it and doing it worst than you, it's hardly justification for your actions.

Francesca Galeazzi is a self - described «nasty, evil woman» in this short video clip, shot in Greenland several days ago and aimed at pillorying so - called «carbon offsets» as a dubious justification for actions that release a lot of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission building in the atmosphere.

But if Policymakers admit that they aren't Scientists, then Scientific Consensus is the justification for action.

My main point is, however, only that denying justification for any action is in not logically better than initiating many processes including some that are likely to have net negative outcome.

The IPCC is a political — not a scientific — organisation that exists to provide politicians with scientific information which can be used to justify actions politicians may want to take by using as justification for the actions the excuse of man - made global climate change.

The paper urges caution in using economic losses of tropical cyclones as justification for action on energy policies when far more potentially effective options are available.

But, as long as they hold the reins of finance and minds of mindless potliticians looking for a clue or excuse, they will continue to receive the Judus Geld from the politicos for providing them with the fig leaf justification for their actions.

(PS I could imagine that an increase in radiation from a nuclear power plant that itself would still be safe could be a justification for action if it is taking as a warning sign that a problem has developed which could worse.

In asserting a claim of self - defense you are essentially admitting to the charges against you, but offering a legal justification for your actions.

If we find that there may have been a legal justification for your actions, we will argue that in court.

As Fox points out, in both cases, the employer seemed to have justification for its actions.

When asserting these defenses, you are essentially admitting to the battery, but providing a legal justification for your actions.

In some cases, the prosecution must also prove that you did not have a legal justification for your action, such as acting in self - defense.

Musharraf's justification for his actions is worth reading (available at www.cfr.org/publication/14728/).

No reaction is required when a state does not provide a legal justification for its actions.

They may even feel like a victim themselves, giving them the illusion of justification for their actions.

Not exact matches

In such action there is something mean - spirited, for which no justification can be offered.

Whether your theology creates a justification for such text and / or action is irrelevant.

«There may be elements from Islam that are used as a basis or justification for hardline groups to carry out their actions.»

Whatever justification one might offer «can not even begin to account for the savage, inhuman cruelty and ferocious malevolence» of his actions.

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

The justification for these evils actions are found throughout the Koran and hadith.

Religion represents what happened on 9/11... it ignites hate, separation, and ridiculous justifications for crazy actions.

Cobb also points out that «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 351) leads not only to theoretical problems for theodicy, but to practical problems in the church, «because particular providence has often been appealed to as justification for many actions on the part of believers that are disruptive of the healthy life of the church» (TIP 14).

Those who profess to be followers of Christ and who frequently invoke their religion as justification for their stands on certain issues need to be called out when their actions run directly contrary to the values and teaching of Jesus.

The U.S. does not have intrinsic enmity toward Iraq and has no justification for unilateral military action.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi found the basis for his faith in the Bhagavad Gita and found the inspiration and justification for non-violent direct action in its second chapter.

Imagine your reaction to an interview with an Islamic fundamentalist who uses the same justifications for executing non-Muslim children today that you are using to justify your god's actions against children in the past.

The individual is left with few other resources than his or her mind and emotions, the moral justification for various actions.