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Strategic hawks, however, are open to practical bargains and compromises - if the circumstances are right and if the security considerations justify it in their eyes.
But I do think there is sustainable value of the kind that no corporation or financially driven investor could ever justify.
To justify its imperious behavior, FIFA points out that, “[the] World Cup is a major sporting event that attracts global attention to the Host Country/Host Countries and provides the opportunity for significant financial investment in sporting and public infrastructure.”
Generally, economic inequality is easier to justify than racism and other forms of invidious discrimination.
It may be defensible for President Bush to give some preference to the economic interests of Americans, but to put them above the life-and-death interests of millions of human beings goes beyond what any ethical approach can justify.
Ironically, the wave of protests since then is consistent with the “modernization hypothesis” that Putin’s government has always used to justify the rollback of democracy in Russia: democracy is sustainable only if society is sufficiently well-off and has a solid middle class; until then, centralized rule is needed.
This may fall short of the European Central Bank’s target of “below but close to 2%,” but not by a margin substantial enough to justify the ECB’s increasingly aggressive use of monetary instruments to stimulate the economy.
One possibility is that they worry about borrowers’ credit risk, though this would have to be extremely high to justify the complete cessation of long-term lending.
Essentially, the concept has served to justify collectivist-authoritarian rule by aligning it with local tradition and culture, with autonomy defined in terms of otherness – that is, differentiation from the West and its values.
So long as nuclear weapons remain, states can justify maintaining a minimum nuclear-deterrent capability.
The arguments used to justify the coup are dubious.
Whatever route it takes, Europe in the coming years will have to address the weak representation of the common interest – or else admit that no such common interest can justify remaining on the path of integration.
If countries that adopt standards are defined as “safe” investments, foreign investors can justify their actions even if things go badly wrong.
The firing and rehiring of Viktor Chernomyrdin within the span of five months appears to justify all the old canards that Yeltsin rules only by impulse, without any system of belief, ideas, or philosophy to guide him.
In order to justify their authoritarian rule and camouflage from the Russian public their massive theft of the country’s resources, the global kleptocrats have already convinced ordinary Russians that they are surrounded by ruthless enemies who are trying to dismember and destroy Russia.
Developing countries justify these taxes by claiming that they fund social spending.
The Constitutional Court now has six months to justify her permanent removal from office.
By contrast, darker-skinned terrorism suspects, especially Muslims, are considered agents of larger conspiracies that require military involvement and justify human-rights violations.
The Tsarnaevs’ attack superficially appears to justify Putin’s nationalist politics in the North Caucasus, and to lend credence to his argument that Russia’s two wars against Chechen independence – from 1994 to 1996 and in 1999 – were waged in the name of national security.
The law was a watershed, because it simultaneously pacified violent regions, delivered justice for millions of dispossessed peasants, radically improved standards of living, and blunted the appeal of a guerrilla group that used the banner of land reform to justify its untold atrocities.
If continued low growth and low inflation do not justify rapid interest-rate increases, a hawkish Fed that raises rates anyway will face harsh disciplining by the market – and, by extension, so will Trump.
The third option is to use environmental protection to justify moving China ahead with real political reform sooner rather than later.
Finally, there is the “military option,” which would merely justify fears in Sudan of Western “imperialism.”
Imperialists from all over the world gave China a hard time, behaving in a way that no one today would or should seek to justify.
Bush’s invocation of democracy to justify the invasion of Iraq implied that democracy could be imposed at the barrel of a gun.
It is now a commonplace that evolutionary theory was used to justify capitalist injustice.
That makes it all the more difficult to justify the practice.
Refusing to consider any amount of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.
So, as with the arguments used to justify the war, and the measures of its success, the rationale behind surge, too, keeps shifting.
But is it possible to justify the enormous rewards earned – or should we say received – by investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity partners?
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