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Is the price increase justified, or are we witnessing a bubble?
When justified by economic fundamentals, the exchange rate should be allowed to rise gradually.
For example, in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, some Serbs justified their attacks on their neighbors by claiming that they were taking revenge for crimes committed during World War II by fascist Croats and their Muslim allies.
Pacifists says it is an absolute evil, never to be justified.
Most people, however, accept that wars can occasionally be justified as a lesser evil.
Gender selection may be clinically justified in order to prevent transmission of a sex-linked disease, such as hemophilia.
Unfortunately, the bad course is the most likely and deep scepticism is justified.
That skepticism is justified.
Liberalizing policies are justified in theory only by the assumption that political decisions will redistribute some of the gains from winners to losers in socially acceptable ways.
This raises the question of why governments keep secrets at all, and whether those reasons are justified.
Any force is justified to avoid another Shoah, and those who shirk their duty to support such force are regarded as no better than collaborators with evil.
For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym.
Indeed, decades of relentless intervention have shifted the terms of debate, with recent operations justified by their achievability rather than their merit.
Policymakers must be aware of the educational and cultural damage that continuous reforms – all justified in the future-oriented jargon of the day – can wreak.
Is the demand for such a sacrifice not justified – at least in part – by a concern for the wellbeing of others?
If Israel was not just a fearful nation oppressing the Palestinian people, but the source of all evil, any form of violence, however destructive of self and others, could be justified.
Moreover, many economists believe that the euro's post-launch dive against the dollar was simply not justified by macroeconomic fundamentals in America and Europe, which its revival in the spring and summer of 2002 seem to confirm.
However, concern about populist policies is not fully justified.
India's Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, justified that deed as part of the retaliation meted out by outraged Hindus against the Muslim "terrorists" who had incinerated 58 Hindus on a train to Godhra.
Cautious optimism seems justified if emerging markets can weather the impact of shrinking demand for their exports, and sustain their recent records of prudent macro-economic management.
Critics of the Stern Review don’t think serious action to limit CO2 emissions is justified, because there remains substantial uncertainty about the extent of the costs of global climate change, and because these costs will be incurred far in the future.
However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: we are much better off reducing CO2 emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future.
Government intervention is justified only in a very limited sense.
The irony here is that the proliferation of such preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is usually justified by pointing to the lack of progress in concluding the Doha talks.
These actions are usually justified as policies for boosting domestic demand, but they end up fueling a surrogate, low-grade currency war.
In Mill’s view, we are justified in stopping him only to make sure that he is aware of the danger.
In the US, innovative market entrants are seldom blocked, and only if overwhelmingly justified by the public interest.
Were negotiations over EU-admission of the Baltics near conclusion, postponing Nato-membership could be justified because the EU, with its new defense identity, is now both a security and prosperity union.
But the recent price surge looks suspiciously like a bubble, with the increase only partly justified by economic fundamentals.
The recent rise in gold prices is only partially justified by fundamentals.
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