Sentences with phrase «of justification for his 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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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?

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.»

International law is a collection of justifications for military and diplomatic action or inaction, rather than something with a true «legal» character in the conventional sense.

Is there any justification for President Trump's allegations that the much of the mainstream media's coverage of his actions and positions are so stilted and biased as to warrant accusations of «fake news, and that they are thereby doing a disservice to the citizenry?

I know of no realist work interested in post hoc political justifications for foreign policy actions.

«By asserting extraterritorial jurisdiction, the Drip bill could provide unintended justification for such actions by other governments, including those that seek to limit freedom of expression and other human rights online.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

Your justifications for a target of stable emissions for 50 years seem to imply that you are first and foremost worried with discouraging action or engendering socioeconomic backlash.

This juxtaposition feels like a very calculated move on the part of writer / director Scott Cooper, giving a justification for the past actions of the story's American soldiers and an opportunity for those soldiers to seek forgiveness for those actions.

There's a pleasingly tough - minded view of our protagonist; he challenges our sympathies, and most frustratingly, his often childlike actions serve as a justification for why he's ill equipped to parent alone.

Both take a long, treacherous slide into madness, as she subconsciously appeases his strange behavior, while the isolation and the reinforcement he gets from his new partner only adds to the feelings of justification for his thoughts and actions.

Splashed in jukebox colours, filmed with flash but wisdom that allows for the action to be comprehensible at all times (even if the ethos isn't), Atomic Blonde suffers because it doesn't have a strong narrative justification for what it does and spends way too much time looking at female bodies in various states of undress, arousal, and injury.

The reasons for this are not hard to surmise: Action in Roth's books tends to take place in the mind, where endless internal monologues of self - justification and loathing battle in equal measure and open ruptures of feelings on sex, identity, life and death.

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.

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.

But consider this: The only legally permissible justification for affirmative action has been that it improves the lives of whites.

Still, the legal justification of affirmative action solely for its impact on white students is problematic...

In this little morass, hiding behind the fiduciary duty of corporate officers and directors is not a strategic justification for Amazon's course of action.

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.

Indeed, the Plan's Justification for Management Action suggests that FWS has an insufficient and / or largely incorrect understanding of the impacts of feral and free - roaming cats on native wildlife and the environment.

For a company that «s always touting «competitive integrity» as a justification for so many of its actions, it's worrying we even have to ponder what the purpose of LCS For a company that «s always touting «competitive integrity» as a justification for so many of its actions, it's worrying we even have to ponder what the purpose of LCS for so many of its actions, it's worrying we even have to ponder what the purpose of LCS is.

There isn't a whole lot of justification for the brainless action, either.

Bharucha's use of the institution's history as justification for the administration's present - day actions fail to acknowledge what the college has come to represent and how it is currently situated in 21st century New York City.

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.

At the same time, environmental groups are using the finding as more justification for urgent action to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

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.

The «hockey stick» graph was touted by global warming alarmists as evidence of rapidly rising temperatures and as justification for government action to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Given that for over 20 years since international climate change negotiations began, the United States has refused to commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions based upon the justification that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends of others, should the United States be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

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.

For all my talk of green lifestyle choices never saving us (which one commenter, not unfairly, recently described as public self - justification), I do believe that personal and local action can have a profound impact on our culture, and that impact can in turn create systemic change for our economy as a whoFor all my talk of green lifestyle choices never saving us (which one commenter, not unfairly, recently described as public self - justification), I do believe that personal and local action can have a profound impact on our culture, and that impact can in turn create systemic change for our economy as a whofor our economy as a whole.

To say that behaviour modification is an objective of class actions does not mean that the promise of deterrence is a sufficient justification for proceeding as a class.

The «about to commit a crime» justification for a Terry stop makes it, in practice, much broader than probable cause for an arrest, which requires that the police believe that a crime has actually already been committed or is in progress, not just that someone is about to commit a crime (a person may be subjected to a Terry stop even if his actions which tend to show he is about to commit a crime have not yet progressed to the level of an attempted offense for which someone may be convicted and are not truly imminent).

By contrast, for the purposes of showing that, before or at the same time as conferring the advantage, the Member State took that decision as a shareholder, it is not enough to rely on economic evaluations made after the advantage was conferred, on a retrospective finding that the investment made by the Member State concerned was actually profitable, or on subsequent justifications of the course of action actually chosen -LRB-...).»

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

More especially, it is part of the growing call for a more convincingly evidence - based justification for policy and legal action.

Legal proceedings like the instant action were therefore rare, and it was as well to emphasise at the outset that the court was not being asked to address, nor was it addressing, the basis of and justification for the system by which claims for ACA might be made.

This was an action of trespass, brought in the Court below, by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, for an assault and battery, and false imprisonment, to which the defendant pleaded the general issue, and a special plea of justification.

This is the province's first - ever class action involving the new tort of «intrusion upon seclusion», which allows individuals to advance a civil claim for damages against an intruder who intentionally invades their privacy, without legal justification, in a manner that is highly offensive to the reasonable person.