Sentences with phrase «justified as an act»

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

They seem to argue that, ultraviolence is justified as an act of love in behalf of an oppressed neighbor.

Such an interpretation would suggest that each individual act of targeting needs to be justified as an act that is essential for achieving the broader objective.

Not exact matches

Now perhaps that response is justified because my portfolio is not well balanced or diversified but can you see why I would be looking around now to find a better fit for someone to act as steward for my nest egg?

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

Furthermore, by amending the Act in 2012 to create two categories of participation, Parliament was signaling that procedures need to be more focused and efficient and that, as such, the Board was justified in creating procedure that requires «rigorous demonstration» (at para 77) of the capacity to make a contribution to the Board's consideration of the matter at hand.

This is particularly true for advocates of the evolutionary theory, which has frequently been used to justify acts of mass genocide when one race is regarded as being superior and more highly evolved than another.

Discontinuity - the act of salvation in Christi - creates «continuity» because it justifies the old as saved.

Catholic authorities justify the right of the State to inflict capital punishment on the ground that the State does not act on its own authority but as the agent of God, who is supreme lord of life and death.

If there is a «treasury of the Church» (D 550 - 2,757,1541; Paul VI, Indulgentiarum Doctrina) which consists actually in the active union with God of all justified Christians, then this, too, makes it clear that all acts of those justified in the Holy Spirit constitute the very life of the Church, hence that the action of the Church is not the same as the action of her official representatives or what is done explicitly in their name.

The griever who comes to see her grief as courageous and its violation a threat to the recovery of her life is more likely to see her anger as justified and right and to act on it.

But religion, just as it is used to explain the unexplainable, can be used to justify acts so heinous that those who would carry them out can't come up with a justification for them.

If there is a «wrong» kind of Christian it is the one who uses the Bible as an excuse or to justify their actions (war, slavery, discrimination, oppression, suppression, or condemnation) and it is the one who ignores the preaching of Jesus (tolerance, love, forgiveness, inclusion) and turns instead to a handful of lines in the Old Testament more in keeping with how they prefer to act.

But even as most Muslims reject ISIS, it can not be denied that the extremists use faith to justify their brutal acts of war.

It is one thing to be justified by faith merely as an instrument by which man receives the righteousness of Christ, and another to be justified FOR faith as an act or work of the law.

If a sinner, then, relies on his actings of faith or works of obedience to any of the commands of the law for a title to eternal life, he seeks to be justified by works of the law as much as if his works were perfect.

When a man acts alone, he always carries within him a certain series of considerations that have, as he supposes, directed his past conduct and serve to justify to him his present action and to lead him to make projects for his future activity.

But Las Casas, citing the binding of Isaac and the killing of the firstborn, did not flinch from defending human sacrifice as a justified religious act.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

Usually the verb to justify means to produce reasons why a person was right to act as he did.

But when Paul says that God justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5) it is clear that he can not mean that God produces reasons to prove that the sinner was right to act as he did, and is right to be a sinner.

Yet most use it as a means to justify horrific acts or to enrich themselves by using religion as a business.

«Autonomy» is a term invoked to justify not only any sexual choice a person may make but, as we see in Belgium, the right to euthanasia, particularly through suicide which is regarded as the ultimate autonomous act.

Later (in the same chapter) he lists the following criteria: we must recognize that we are doing evil, we should act only out of demonstrable necessity, and only in last resort, and we must justify our actions publicly and submit to public judgment as to their correctness.

However, I think articles like this have an agenda, and it's not to comfort the victims family's, but are a self - serving attempt at creating answers that justify a senseless act as somehow part of a plan.

In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

It meant also, and more poignantly, that the act of redemption had taken place, that the price of sin had all been paid, and that sinners before and since could be justified and counted as righteous before God.

Theo is an expensive failure and to keep giving him the chance when he has repaid the clubs faith with being a bottler and acting as if he's a lazy git (watched him a number of seasons ago against Blackburn away and all he did was run up and down the wing without even calling for the ball to draw defenders away from the centre) I hate to say it but in my mind Alan Hansen was right when he said that «Walcott has not got a natural footballers brain» It infuriated me at the time but its been proven to be true I feel he's been collecting his money for too long without a result to justify keeping him in our employment.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Undoubtedly, the Brexit government has a lot on its plate, so every initiative has to justify its place: the legislative log - jam is much anticipated and will begin with the Great Repeal Act, but just as challenging is likely to be securing time for the secondary legislation to pass regulations even for matters that have already had their bills enacted.

Before the introduction of the residency test, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) described the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offences Act (Laspo) as «targeting legal aid at the most serious cases which have sufficient priority to justify the use of public funds».

«Right now, the only conversations that matters are ones supporting those that need love and prayers and how as a nation we can protect ourselves from falling victim to acts of hate from terrorists who hide behind religion to justify their heinous actions.»

The authors of the report say that their findings justify raising the threatened status of the Grauer's gorilla as «critically endangered» on the IUCN list of Threatened Species, highlighting the perilous position these great apes are in, and the need to act now to prevent a further decline in numbers.

Important decisions, such as those on scientific misconduct, were not justified in compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

In the film's final act, the screenplay serves them up what might otherwise be a moment of real conflict, but Roth's direction seems so blithely uninterested in anything but eagerly justifying Willis» violently sadistic rampages that the scene plays as limp and useless as a vestigial tail.

The use (and abuse) of a very young child in peril as a plot device is something I approach with caution, but in this case, without giving away too much of the final act, I feel it is largely justified by the story.

B - roll of such things as helicopters exploding and a stealth bomber in flight are hastily written into the plot (if you're having trouble seeing how a peckerwood snake - opera justifies a stealth bomber attack, you're not going to find any answers in Venomous), and the acting aside from ever - solid Williams ranges from embarrassing to «it's in my beautiful eyes.»

In 2012, Emily played a young maiden and John her minstrel husband in a skit called Movie: The Movie, and last year, they starred as themselves in a sketch centred on The Kimmel School of Perfect Acting, in which comedian Jimmy instructed the two to act as if they were not married, a role playing exercise a «sad» Emily justified as a «sacrifice» for art.

Finley's less - than - propulsive sensibilities pave the way for a comparatively eventful yet entirely uninvolving third act, and there is, as a result, little within the movie's final stretch that wholeheartedly works or justifies all that precedes it - which ultimately confirms Thoroughbreds» place as a misconceived, misguided thriller devoid of actual thrills.

It also should suffer far less scrutiny than a theatrical release would demand, as what would be too manipulative and predictable to justify spending money for on the big screen seems like a well - acted and somewhat touching romance when looking at it on the small screen, provided you're into that sort of thing.

This was undoubtedly the strongest element in the series and gave it an edge and justification for all its silliness, for when you have a group of middle aged men acting the goat whilst sober, it's just not as funny or justified.

If an act of solidarity does not question the layered aspect of structures and agency that lie upon each other in any situation and does not seek to challenge the status quo, then it is dubious whether this act can be seen as true solidarity and not simply a conscience - soothing, guilt - justifying act of charity.

Stanford University justified the act of providing all the freshers with the latest tablet craze from Apple, the iPad as they feel this will lead to an environment that is conducive to «efficient, mobile, and innovative learning.»

Having said that, the investments are only made in equity & equity derivative instruments which justifies return enlargement thus, interest income from debt & related instrument acts as a secondary objective.

And finally I should have acted immediately and sold my position when MYRX bid for Javelin in the Spring of 2010 as management made little attempt to explain and justify this incomprehensible move, a further indication that management's interests were simply not aligned with those of shareholders.

Squirt would be absolutely justified in such an act, but Rowdy's owner would probably erroneously perceive this as an «attack,» and become angry.

These new paintings were inspired by a string of Chinese embroidered pandas purchased by the artist from the Pearl Emporium in New York, which Rae describes as having given her «a reason to make a painting» explaining that «sometimes it's hard to justify the act of painting; its expressive and gestural marks can seem unwarranted and unconnected to anything much in the so - called real world...» Cartoon - like pandas recur somewhat mysteriously throughout the works, combined in other cases with mathematical and astronomical symbols.

The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading — as a last resort — all other justifications having failed to justify themselves — as liberation.

The Environmental Protection Agency is justified in taking action under the Clean Air Act, as it has so often before, to protect Americans from the harms posed by air pollution.