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I believe that some of the preconditions posed by the Israeli prime minister in his recent, widely reported speech are fully justified.
However, for political reasons, the changes were always justified in an almost apologetic way.
But, while references to the Great Depression are justified, the lesson of that crisis, and of the New Deal, is that effective programs can at best cushion the fall and bring about stabilization.
Unfortunately, current policy is justified in terms of “pro-market” – effectively pro-cyclical – choices.
She believed that her family’s sacrifices were justified by the liberation and rise of China.
To drive this point home to the general public, which, in the US, is still easily persuaded by Cheney’s point of view that torture is justified if it saves lives, liberal commentators and politicians have called for a special commission to investigate fully the last administration’s record.
Later still, under such leaders as Menachem Begin, military enterprises were justified by references to the Nazi genocide.
This fear can be justified when the requirements go beyond core labor rights and make specific wage and other material demands.
Predictably, even when justified, these comments backfire, fueling demagoguery and undermining governments' efforts to achieve and sustain fiscal stability.
So caution is fully justified.
In that sense, President Bush won half his argument: preventive force can be justified, but not unilaterally.
It was apparent in America, too, during the Cold War, when national security concerns justified an economically active state, even as extensive social-welfare systems were supporting aggregate demand across the rest of the developed world.
Its allies in the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, justified US influence on the grounds that Americans were Christian and thus part of the Ahl el-Kitab (the people of the Book).
Yet in the wake of September 11, the focus of the debate has suddenly shifted, and it now revolves around the extent to which it may be justified to suspend or restrict certain rights - starting with immigration rights and the rights to due process, freedom of expression and privacy - so as to fight the so-called "War on Terror" more effectively.
No matter how unjustified Israel’s traditional military behavior seems in the eyes of its enemies and critics, it has always aspired to base its military actions on grounds that can be justified.
Advocates of shifting authority to EU institutions have justified this with the notion of “shared sovereignty,” according to which British sovereignty could be eroded by EU decisions, without any formal agreement from the UK’s government or people.
In the public’s eyes, the focus on such institutions appears justified by the huge costs of financial rescue.
This is because the Chinese Communist Party’s monopoly on power can be justified only by continued rapid economic growth, without which workers and farmers will lose their jobs, and the urban middle classes their chance of increasing prosperity.
A 2014 Gallup poll showed that, while a narrow majority of all Americans considered Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza justified, only 25% of people under 30 did; 51% of people under 30 declared Israel’s actions to be unjustified.
Only in exceptional circumstances is fiscal harmonization justified: prohibitions, say, on fiscal incentives aimed at limiting competition, impeding commerce, or restricting the movement of capital.
The addition of new EU members implies that more internal differences will occur, which means that fewer centralized policies are justified.
As critics have mockingly pointed out, Hessel’s booklet at times reads more like a call for a free-floating, almost arbitrary desire to be agitated by something – almost anything, really, as long as it can somehow be justified by one’s own subjective sense of justice.
Some local borrowing can be justified by the central budgetary allocation to local projects.
Although QE may be justified by weak economic and growth fundamentals, keeping rates too low for too long can eventually feed such bubbles.
Likewise, he justified Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of parts of eastern Ukraine by emphasizing their substantial “ethnic Russian” populations.
In response to Hezbollah’s attacks, Israel was justified in attacking Hezbollah to protect itself against the threat of missiles on its border.
Unfortunately, when use of force has been justified on humanitarian grounds, interventions have focused narrowly on tactical military considerations.
Moreover, recent economic research finds that higher taxes are justified on welfare grounds, because the costs to smokers are huge (even though the external costs to others might be small), and that higher cigarette taxes do not hurt the poor (since the self-control value of higher taxes helps the poor more).
Corporations and businesses will be among the big beneficiaries, a bias justified on the grounds that this will stimulate the economy.
The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
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