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In the 1640s, parliamentarians saw in it a legal basis for their overthrow of King Charles I. Later rebels, including the American revolutionaries and Nelson Mandela, have similarly justified their actions by appealing to Magna Carta.
Worse still, the taboo against questioning Brexit has not been justified by appeals to reason, economics, or national interest.
In this system, the EU’s role – defending the European values of media freedom and pluralism – is further justified by the need to protect its own representative democracy.
Other cases of legally justified Internet censorship include the blocking of sexually explicit websites in countries where pornography is prohibited.
These countries are fully justified in opposing an IP regime that is neither equitable nor efficient.
For, if it were true, any and all measures taken against Muslims, however brutal, would be justified, and Israel would indeed be a frontline state, resisting “Islamofacism” to prevent another Auschwitz.
Moreover, 85% said suicide bombing is rarely or never justified, and only 1% said violence to defend Islam was “often” permissible.
In Europe, significantly higher percentages of Muslims believe that suicide bombings are “often” or “sometimes” justified.
Limitations on autonomy and privacy cannot be justified unless they meet the criteria for any restriction of a basic right, namely legitimate purpose, proportionality, necessity, and non-discrimination.
Since I was one of the few Americans to advocate a single European currency, you would be justified in asking: Am I having second thoughts?
When the result is that excess output is dumped at cheap prices into world markets, Western countries are fully justified in taking countermeasures.
The Iraq invasion was justified by the same use of fraudulent evidence as was displayed in Kosovo.
If these claims were true, the EU would be justified – if not obliged – to close its borders.
Though multiple European actors on the world stage were more than justified in the old days, this is no longer the case.
Unless you have been studying at the bottom of the ocean, you know that the financial sector has come under severe criticism – much of it justified – for thrusting the world economy into its worst crisis since the Great Depression.
But, back in 1999, when faced with a Russian veto of a potential Security Council resolution in the case of Kosovo, NATO used force anyway, and many defenders argued that, legality aside, the decision was morally justified.
Arguably, income inequality is justified, because it provides incentives for entrepreneurs to provide goods and services that are better, or cheaper, than the goods or services that others are providing, and this competition benefits everyone.
Even Marx justified British rule in India on these grounds.
One can hope that his confidence is justified.
The Iraq War was not and could not be justified on the basis that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant.
Was the war justified in terms of costs and benefits, and was war really the last resort?
President Bush initially justified intervention in Iraq on the grounds of Saddam’s programs to develop weapons of mass destruction, the regime’s alleged links to al-Qaida, as well as Iraq’s violation of human rights and lack of democracy.
Most debates addressed whether the war was justified.
The rhetoric may sound extreme, but with so much hanging in the balance, surely it’s justified.
This re-nationalization has not been justified ideologically, but rather cynically: the purpose is simply to generate corrupt revenues for top Kremlin officials.
Before announcing import tariffs on more than 1,300 types of Chinese-made goods worth around $60 billion per year, in early March Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum, which he justified on the basis of national security.
This is a high-risk move, one that is probably not justified by the effort to bring price increases a few dozen basis points closer to the ECB’s target.
But the assumption that stronger growth and economic confidence must generate higher fertility – with low birth rates reflecting pessimism about the future – is not justified by the evidence.
Research costs are estimated at approximately $100 million per year – a substantial sum, but one justified by the complexity and sheer size of the challenge.
Israelis justified their stance with this question: Just when did the Palestinians become a nation deserving of statehood?
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