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But using experts’ missteps or uncertainties to justify disregarding facts is irresponsible.
Are security and political interests so overwhelming that they justify assuming large and unlimited liabilities incurred by political systems over which they have no control?
To justify his tariffs, Trump points to America’s bilateral (or multilateral) trade deficits with its trading partners.
There is some optimism about Japan getting on its feet again, but over the past, vastly disappointing, decade, too many pseudo-recoveries have been glimpsed in Japan to justify such hopes.
Confucianism has been combined with Legalism, China’s other main political tradition, to justify such practices as blind obedience to the ruler, subordination of women, and the use of harsh punishments.
If even one non-mainstream idea bears fruit, it could transform our view of reality and justify all of those heterodox hypotheses that do not.
The lesson is clear: while it is important to justify flagship scientific missions by what we expect to find, funding should be based mainly on their potential to lead to unexpected discoveries.
While Greece and Portugal face the need for deflation totaling 30% and 35%, respectively, the figures for Spain and Italy are high enough to justify fears about the future development of the eurozone.
European populists point to the mishandling of migration issues to justify their cause.
The number of high-income households is still growing, but not enough to justify the 30-40% compounded growth rates expected by some.
But exploiting history to justify current violence will not work forever.
Would that justify a pre-emptive military strike, as certain circles in Israel and the US advocate?
The industry trotted out all the standard arguments to justify such consolidation, claiming that it would actually benefit consumers by making health-insurer operations more efficient.
To justify his belligerent actions, Trump lies relentlessly and remorselessly.
The EU’s new High Representative for external affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, tried to justify her failure to go to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of its terrible earthquake by saying, “I am neither a nurse nor a fire person.”
Philosophers have puzzled about how to justify our intuitions in these situations, given that in both cases, the choice seems to be between saving five lives at the cost of taking one life.
Former French President Jacques Chirac did not hesitate to justify this imbalance with a reference to World War II, which the Germans accepted.
The doctrine of double effect, properly understood, does not justify what the doctors did; but, by inuring them to the practice of shortening patients’ lives without obtaining consent, it seems to have paved the way for intentional killing.
Board remuneration committees can explain them logically with complex formulas to justify them, and yet often they are completely out of line with common sense.
Importantly, Bitcoin does not need to win every battle to justify a sky-high price.
Were Bitcoin stripped of its near-anonymity, it would be hard to justify its current price.
“Without the prospect of eventual political union on the basis of some constitutional treaty,” writes Munchau, “a single currency was always difficult to justify and it might turn out more difficult to sustain….Without the politics, the euro is not nearly as attractive.”
Every institution, Mill wrote in On Liberty, had to justify its keep; if it could not, it deserved to be swept away.
Russia is openly breaking those rules and no longer bothering to justify itself under international law.
Nevertheless, because both Hu and Bush fear the economic effects of reducing their country’s carbon emissions, each has hidden behind the non-participation of the other to justify absence from international efforts and failure to assume a global leadership role.
This does not mean that journalists should justify Bannon’s description of them as the opposition party.
Moreover, to justify invading Iraq in 2003, the United States (and the United Kingdom) produced equally “conclusive” evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be false.
But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the “color revolution” route to democracy that other post-Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform does not justify isolation.
The only difference is that the former justify their views with talk of democracy and human rights, while the latter do not need any such justification, because, after all, America is the greatest country on earth.
The Bush team cannot justify this temporary fix on the assumption that the structural deterioration is temporary – for all we know, the future is as likely to get worse as to get better.
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