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He rejected the prohibition on moral grounds of actions that do not lead to physical harm.
The state may not, on his view, make homosexuality criminal on the grounds that it is immoral.
But I think that we have grounds to be optimistic about the future.
So there are grounds to believe that our improved reasoning abilities have enabled us to reduce the influence of those more impulsive elements of our nature that lead to violence.
We need to promote a much more inclusive and informed dialogue about both if nuclear power is to be assessed on its genuine merits, rather than dismissed on the grounds of little more than ignorance and intransigence.
Dr. Fadl), an Al Qaeda ideologue for a decade, published several books denouncing armed activism, both theologically and on tactical grounds, after spending several years in prison.
Uribe’s political demise would hurt everyone, but the rejection of the FTA on human rights grounds could set a healthy precedent.
As the Obama administration moves ahead with its new proposals, it should look back at the financial crisis, which provides strong grounds for implementing such a change.
Moreover, while more than 60 municipalities have passed local regulations to ban the drilling, the courts have declared several of these measures unconstitutional on the grounds that they exceed communal powers – a move that also undercuts local democracy.
Though such moves could be challenged in the European Court of Justice on grounds of discrimination, any cases are unlikely to arise until well after the upcoming election.
When officers are required to articulate grounds for suspicion, they are more likely to rely on behavioral factors rather than prejudice.
It does not help that a tradition of gerontocracy prevails in many countries, meaning that young people’s political participation and influence is restricted on cultural grounds.
But recent developments in the Middle East suggest that there are grounds for concern in other volatile countries, namely Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran.
On strictly economic grounds, Kosovo itself is not viable other than as an integrated part of a prospering region.
But, in order to defeat the far right, Putin’s regime will be forced to take its stand on more or less liberal ideological grounds.
But there are good historical grounds for thinking that it won’t.
In the United Kingdom, the Court’s 2005 ruling against a blanket withdrawal of voting rights for prisoners, on the grounds that disenfranchisement can be disproportionate to the offense, provoked official wrath.
But does such a calculus make sense, or is it simply wishful thinking, a reassuring and comfortable illusion designed to make French leaders feel good, when in fact they are dealing with Russia on purely commercial grounds?
As a result, when Pinochet was returned to Chile sixteen months later, on medical grounds, he faced revived criminal charges filed by victims and survivors of his rule.
Nor has Belgrade given grounds for confidence.
On moral and economic grounds, the time has come for others to follow AXA’s lead and recognize that fossil fuels are uninsurable.
Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling Congress Party, who pushed hard to promote Patil’s candidacy primarily on gender grounds, calls this election “a special moment for women across the country.”
But as attractive as an income tax cut may look on narrow nationalistic grounds, there is more than just the French national interest to be considered.
In Germany, especially, any person persecuted on political grounds has a constitutional right to asylum.
The European Commission, once the EU’s source of visionary creativity, has become a fanatical defender of existing rules and regulations, however irrational and destructive, on the grounds that any concessions will beget more demands.
The left’s unremitting hostility to the deal – often on the grounds that the US Congress was kept in the dark about its content during negotiations – carried two dangers.
Indeed, some years back, a planned visit to Indian Ladakh by the PLA’s commander of the Lanzhou Military Region was canceled on the grounds that Pakistan had protested – implying that Pakistan had a legitimate claim to the area.
At first, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stood firm against Harare’s demands on technical grounds.
Transforming a dictatorship into a democracy in a country that has never known democracy and lacked the economic and civic resources to sustain it was at least a generation-long endeavor (though neither the US nor the UK government initially justified the intervention on these grounds).
Last month, parallel developments on opposite sides of the world gave us grounds for thinking that the world may, slowly and haltingly, be becoming a little more civilized.
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