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Yet, these parents also wanted to justify their decisions through the tales they tell.

And even when religion-related extremism does not lead to violence, it is still used as a political wedge issue, cynically leading people to justify the subordination of women, the stigmatization of LGBT people, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

The thing is, I'm not trying to justify or excuse any of the violence.

Time and the march of progress is used to justify a stunning degree of violence towards our most vulnerable populations, who, being perceived as space-takers rather than world-makers, are moved out of the places where they live, in service of bringing them into the 21st century.

I'm from Ghana, West Africa, and my question is: I'm wondering how do you present and justify the idea of global governance to countries that have been historically disenfranchised by the effects of globalization, and also, if we're talking about global governance, it sounds to me like it will definitely come from a very Westernized idea of what the "global" is supposed to look like.

So how do we present and justify that idea of global versus wholly nationalist to people in countries like Ghana and Nigeria and Togo and other countries like that?

When it comes to our own bad behavior, well, we seem to develop sudden-onset amnesia, or we can always justify it as an appropriate response to the latest outrage from our opponents.

In expensive cities like New York, it has the magical power of being able to multiply real estate values by allowing views, which is really the only commodity that developers have to offer to justify those surreal prices.

You know you'll wake up in the morning feeling awful, but you justify it by saying, "The other me in the future will deal with that."

When our governments frame slums as threats in order to justify violent land grabs or forced evictions, they're counting on those of us who live in formal housing to tacitly and ignorantly agree with them.

From Shakespeare’s plays to modern TV dramas, the unscrupulous schemer for whom the ends always justify the means has become a familiar character type we love to hate.

But if something is written on the slate, then some people could have more of it than others, and according to this line of thinking, that would justify discrimination and inequality.

And let me justify that with two statements.

It's what Bryan Stevenson at the Equal Justice Initiative calls the narrative of racial difference, the story we told ourselves to justify slavery and Jim Crow and mass incarceration and beyond.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Now, it's hard to justify doing a side project at a startup, where focus is so critical, but I had actually launched Blogger as a side project to my previous company, thinking it was just a little thing we'd do on the side, and it ended up taking over not only the company, but my life for the next five or six years.

So I learned to follow hunches even though you can't necessarily justify them or know where they're going to go.

MR: Yeah, at a time when populism is gaining strength, it becomes popular to justify the symptoms, to eradicate them, to make them invisible.

Internally, you know you're not skilled enough, experienced enough or qualified enough to justify being there, yet you are there, and you have to figure a way out, because you can't just get out.

And what could I possibly have to say that would be distinguished enough to justify my participation in something like that?

Does anything justify what the local community goes through?

IQ test results have been used to justify horrific policies and scientifically baseless ideologies.

Now this is important, because border conflicts justify so much of the world's military-industrial complex.

And this is a bit hard to justify I think.

And suddenly, I couldn't rationalize or justify the prejudice that I had in my head.

Now, I want to be very clear: We do not think our work should or could justify prejudice against people of one or another body size at all.

Do I tell my son not to steal because it is wrong, or because they will use it to justify his death?

What does a prefrontal cortex do for you that should justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull in the blink of evolutionary time?

(To justify that title, no doubt!)

At least one thing in this movie which you have done smartly, to justify Sherawat's presence .

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