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On the other hand, Tolstoy justified the unrestrained and unregulated eruption of public anger and the furious slaying of retreating French soldiers by Russian peasants.
How justified is this charge?
Government intervention in benchmark prices can be justified in the name of macroeconomic management or regulatory action to improve the provision of public goods and services.
Resistance to reform could for a time be justified, so long as: 1 firms in the state sector retained a profitable position in a region's economy; 2. the mobility of state employees remained low; and 3, the non-state sector was not strong enough in both financial terms and entrepreneurial capability to take over the vast state sector.
At the same time, Turks did not turn against Islam, as though this killing could be justified by religion.
Leon Kass, who subsequently served as chair of President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics, argued that the risk of producing an abnormal infant was too great for an attempt at IVF ever to be justified.
Intelligence services have a checkered history, but their legitimate activities in established democracies are justified by their grounding in the rule of law and a chain of accountability that leads to democratically elected officials.
As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.
These projects are justified by the fact that three-quarters of all international trade is made up of inputs that contribute to the production of finished products further down the line.
And Iraqi politicians would not agree to postpone that deadline on terms that could be justified to the American people.
Higher taxes may be justified for other reasons, but are unlikely to solve the problem described.
Ukrainians note that Russia justified its invasion of Georgia, as the Nazis justified their dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, as being necessary to “protect” a minority to whom they had just given citizenship.
But are complaints that Greek sovereignty has been severely impaired justified?
If other remedies fail in such a situation, secession might be justified as a last resort, even if it imposes heavy costs on the rump state.
He made the right choice before the Iraq war - America's intervention was never justified and has yielded a terrible failure - and so found himself in sync with an emerging European, even global, opposition to the Bush administration.
Predatory Competition PolicyThe recent decision by the European Court of First Instance to uphold the fine and sanctions the European Commission imposed upon Microsoft in 2004 appears to have justified the Commission’s interventionist approach to competition policy.
Blair justified the invasion as necessary to stop Saddam’s crimes against humanity.
He acknowledges that Saddam committed atrocities in the 1980s and early 1990s that would have justified intervention, but by 2000 his behavior was “no more egregious than a score or more of other serial human-rights violators around the world.”
To be sure, Germany is justified in rejecting narrow-minded calls by France and Italy for unconditional fiscal expansion.
The Mail on Sunday and its sister paper, The Daily Mail, justified their publication of revelations by Browne’s former companion on the grounds that they include allegations that Browne had allowed him to use corporate resources for the benefit of his own private business.
Violent responses to unwelcome views are never justified and cannot be accepted.
Given all of this, the ECB was entirely justified in responding (belatedly) to the 2008-2009 global recession by lowering interest rates and undertaking quantitative easing, regardless of those efforts’ contribution to a depreciation of the euro.
The tensions spawned by Islamic law might be justified if it targeted Nigeria's biggest problem: government corruption.
And the most fundamental of those issues is whether American grievances against China – shared by many of the advanced economies – are justified.
Whether or not non-intervention is justified, the world’s hands-off approach should not extend to the many millions of civilian victims who, like my family in 1939, have no choice but to seek refuge outside their home country.
The question is whether Stein’s new view is justified.
Yet if the detailed accusations are justified, the blame probably lies more, either with the previous Commission of Jacques Delors (now long out of office), rather than the present Commission presided by Jacques Santer, or else with the Member States, who spend 80% of the Union budget.
In Paris, however, his blasphemies against French idols, he wrote wistfully, were "well received...people like to demolish all reputations, even legitimate, even justified.
The question now is: Is such an extreme step really justified?
China’s government has justified this burgeoning trade by claiming that North Korea will come to appreciate the wonders of a market economy.
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