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And when the president does go overseas, the US press often demands that he bring back tangible bounty, in the form of export deals, or assurances on some other immediate “deliverable” – in short, enough transactions to justify the expense.
The prospect of Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks in the US are not remotely real or imminent enough to justify reliance on the self-defense exception.
This is a more powerful indictment of the reasoning behind recent attempts to justify spending cuts during a recession than is a spreadsheet error or a flippant remark about Keynes’s sexuality.
One consequence of high interest rates is that the exchange rate of the pound is far higher than the economic fundamentals would justify.
Americans also are more aware of how such attacks are used to justify abuses of their own rights.
The reality is that many governments could not justify accepting refugees without a thorough vetting process – and that demands data.
The field studies used to justify their inclusion sometimes involved a single patient evaluated by the person advocating the new disease.
News outlets not only allowed the administration to marshal questionable facts to justify the invasion; they also permitted officials to attach undue significance to those facts, with no questions asked.
The JAEA demonstration projects can be used to develop estimates of cost and other resource requirements – and resulting waste volumes – for defined levels of contaminant reduction, but they cannot be used to specify or justify the numerical goals of the regional cleanup.
The risk of genetically abnormal children is one such reason; but, even if it were sufficient, it would justify only a prohibition that was both narrower and wider than the current prohibition on incest.
And the goal of avoiding genetic abnormalities would justify widening the prohibition to sexual relationships between all couples who are at high risk of having abnormal offspring.
We can hope, but in no way guarantee, that the details agreed at the end of the TTIP negotiations justify the enthusiasm at their start.
China, for its part, uses history to justify its efforts to upend the territorial and maritime status quo and emulate the pre-1945 colonial depredations of its rival Japan.
The global war on terror was misinterpreted to justify a wide variety of actions, including the misguided and expensive Iraq War, which damaged America’s image.
Precedents abound in American history for using scare stories to justify fiscal expansion.
It makes a certain sense to speak of Asian values in Singapore, because it would be disrespectful to the Malay and Indian minorities to justify their subservience by invoking Chinese values.
Much of the groundwork has already been laid by the OECD, in several guiding principles: economic goals, especially growth and competitiveness, should be as important as social and environmental goals; a regulation’s benefits must justify its costs; regulations should be reviewed frequently, and a cost-benefit analysis of all the alternatives – including simply maintaining the status quo – should always be carried out.
There is a widespread misperception that Islam’s holy texts are written in a way that can justify both interpretations.
Cash-strapped Western governments, which are putting up close to $750 million for the coming election, would do well to ask if they can continue to justify subsidizing a country where such little progress has been made towards better governance and respect for human rights.
Macron’s underestimation of Benalla’s violence was a serious error, but it was not what Mélénchon, in an interview with Le Monde, called “an open door to a form of barbarism” and it certainly did not justify the subsequent paralysis of Parliament.
This served to justify the premium placed on female chastity.
Indeed, it was this principle that, once invoked to justify NATO enlargement in the 1990s, put the two sides on a collision course.
Indeed, only the continuance of a vast global threat can justify the existence of Russia's armed forces at their current size of 1.2 million personnel, as well as the current conscription system--deeply resented by oridinary Russians--and a reserve of many millions.
To the Spaniards, it helps to justify their abrupt withdrawal from Iraq in 2004; for the Turks, it is yet another vehicle in their struggle, as the vital bridge between Islam and the West, for admission into the European Union.
While the ECB – like most other EU institutions – has a poor track record on adhering to rules, even its own, the assumption that OMT will be no different is insufficient to justify a ruling against it.
To use the possibility of creating dependence to justify the cuts, we would need hard evidence, not only that some aid programs have created dependence, but that specific global health programs adversely affected by the cuts really are creating dependence.
That said, none of China’s recent actions justify Trump’s sudden upending of Sino-American relations.
Trump’s supporters justify his mendacity on the grounds that “all politicians lie.”
On that basis, for speech to pose a clear and present danger that could justify prohibiting it, the harm the speech would cause must be so imminent that it could preclude any opportunity to discuss fully what had been said.
Neither putative EU membership nor today’s favorable security conditions justify postponing enlargement.
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