Sentences with phrase «justified public action»

The idea that one's faith is a private matter has become deeply ingrained in Western culture, and very seldom are «religious» considerations used to justify public actions.

This does not mean that there is no more science to be done, but instead that, in the risk - based framework that society uses in its decision - making, the uncertainties in the science are now small enough to justify public action that will prevent more serious changes in the future.

Not exact matches

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.

The justifiable state draws on the idea that state officials should only justify their actions by appeal to public, accessible reasons.

The attempt therefore by Eugene Arhin to create the impression of scarcity and use same as a pretext to justify the unwarranted falsehood about missing vehicles belonging to the Presidency is disingenuous and unbecoming of a public official whose actions must be guided by integrity and candour.

What has happened (apart from public health minister Anne Milton attending the Action on Smoking and Health AGM in December) to justify such a stunning and apparently hypocritical volte - face?

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

In a 54 - page opinion released Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit wrote that while prosecutors had presented enough evidence to justify Silver's convictions, jurors had been wrongly instructed on the action Silver would have to take to make his conduct count as criminal public corruption.

Schröder pointed out that the German public as a whole would have to decide which actions are justified.

Having said that, I agree that climate scientists have already learned and communicated far more than enough to justify urgent action to end anthropogenic GHG emissions as quickly as possible — which numerous national and international scientific organizations, and many individual climate scientists, have explicitly called for in public statements.

1989 Fossil - fuel and other U.S. industries form the Global Climate Coalition to tell politicians and the public that climate science is too uncertain to justify action.

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.

Their public actions certainly lead me to believe that many have let the ends justify the means.

But even if one believes such actions are justified in principle I don't think it is appropriate for someone in Gleick's position to do what he did because if scientists are seen to do anything which undermines their personal integrity then it can cast doubt in the public's eye about their scientific work and that of their colleagues and makes it harder for them to counter the anti-scientific antics of the fake skeptics, although I would hope that the stinking hypocrisy of the latter would also be apparent to the public.

(it may seem hypocritical or illogical to suggest the government shouldn't protect the private sector (PS glossing over whatever public money went into this, as I'm not familiar with those specifics, it's not really important to the point I'm making) from government actions, but if a government action is sensible and justified, the private sector really should just deal with it.

1989 Fossil - fuel and other U.S. industries form Global Climate Coalition to tell politicians and the public that climate science is too uncertain to justify action.

On the matter of public interest, the court took the view that the claimant in his actions and attempts to justify them had ignored or failed to give any proper weight to other aspects of the public interest.

However, the 2nd Circuit has generally taken the position that «it is not for the courts to say whether or not the actions taken were justified in the public interest, particularly where it vitally concerned the operation and stability of the nation's banking system.»

96 The ECHR definitively held that a series of actions brought by Muslim and Sikh students were inadmissible, as the 2004 religious symbols law was consistent with France's constitutional secularism — the interference with freedom of religion was proportionate and justified given the public order aims pursued.

[c] ontrary to what much of the public has been led to think, then, it is not necessarily inappropriate for government officials to push back when they believe a court gets a ruling wrong; this is as legitimate as a citizen asserting her Charter right to justify some action.

169 members of the public was the source of the «public opinion» piece of these, which helped the OSRE justify its actions.