Justifying Humanitarian Intervention

'But I don't even think of blaming her!' Anna's friend said, justifying herself.

The indigenous man demanded that a judicial order justifying the eviction be presented.

These texts are among those often interpreted as justifying the subjugation of Muslim women.

The information in question apparently includes child pornography or anything justifying the molestation of children.

The U.S. government cites precisely these worrying uses of Tor when justifying its own efforts to decrypt users data.

Human Rights Watch also explained that the religious reasons supposedly justifying the male guardianship system have been repeatedly challenged

The process of justifying long term basic research in the life sciences often seems like just such a repetitive loop.

Justifying the killings of black Africans, a leading Arab commentator invoked Stalin One can t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

The university expects to have reduce energy consumption by 87 over time, justifying an expensive initial investment in the pump.

The Mexico City Public Prosecutor's Office Twitter feed posted different messages about the case tone deaf, blaming the victim and justifying what happened.

Justifying the change, authorities blamed the old alphabet order as the reason why reading skills among primary school children in Oromia remain poor.

By increasing the maximum penalty for justifying terrorism online, the law also sets a precedent for more aggressive legal action against social media users.

That would make a large scale offensive by more than 45,000 soldiers a compelling necessity, justifying politically the hundreds of casualties it would have cost.

But reckless use of either mechanism for short term goals may create long term costs, justifying some restrictions on politicians' latitude in influencing macroeconomic policies.

And that's right. Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence, which is not much different from what a kid does.

New social movements, seeking to de mythologize history, rejecting platitudes justifying the policies of elite interests, and demanding greater institutional accountability, seemingly threatened the entire establishment.

Both the 1914 and the 1933 analogies point to the most striking characteristic of the current debate the key role of security worries in justifying protectionism.

Yet, as often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

In justifying his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, Bush has always referred to the fact that it did not commit China and India to mandatory emission limits.

A decline in long term rates of such magnitude would thus appear to imply massive price inflation for real assets, justifying the high prices we are in fact seeing.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting paid heed to the qualms of students and organised a dialogue meeting with them, but did not succeed in justifying its appointment of Chauhan.

The prevailing approach to crisis management has been short term, and, as was amply demonstrated during this latest crisis, is based on what I call the self justifying doctrine of intervention.

This project of directors Karey Kirkpatrick and Jason Reisig collected 23 million on its kickoff weekend, basically justifying the expectations of experts who had predicted 20 25 million for the weekend.

That intervention exemplifies the failure of the wounded beast theory of diplomacy, according to which the US could do anything after the terrorist attacks of 2001, with the ends justifying the means.

You might call this a kind of intellectual exercise, validating and justifying the actions of Putin today, inasmuch as doing so has become harder than it was five or six years ago.

Once, the votaries of one kind of new international order or another decried the evils of imperialism (sometimes, but not always, prefixed with a neo '') in justifying demands for a more just dispensation.

Russia, according to this view, recognizes that it cannot get its old empire back, so it is chipping away at neighboring territories instead, justifying its actions by a nebulous concept of ethnic and historical justice.

The Taliban have exploited the failures of the international community in extremely effective anti Western propaganda that has fueled significant doubt in the minds of the public concerning the reasons justifying the international presence in Afghanistan.

But this is merely a way of justifying the exploitation of mostly vulnerable women (there is also a much smaller number of male prostitutes in the Netherlands, but they are not pimped out like female prostitutes).

But when even leaders who are normally considered to be responsible statesmen, such as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, begin justifying Putin s actions, Europe risks frittering away the very security on which its prosperity is built.

The film tried in vain to get on Biszku that he was justifying his sins, because he really doesn't consider himself guilty, he with his unauthentic, historically inaccurate sentences is defending the legitimacy of the system.

One year ago, Khaled Said, a 27 year old Egyptian from the coastal city of Alexandria, was tortured to death at the hands of two policemen who wanted to search him, justifying it under the emergency law.

As Milosevic showed again in the 1990s, when he claimed to be defending innocent Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, justifying military intervention solely on the basis of moral principles leaves too much room for their distortion and abuse.

As an anonymous American woman, justifying her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery, put it, All we have in life is ourselves, and what we can put out there every day for the world to see Me is all I got.

If Bush or his successor wants to ensure that the next round of talks fails, that will be easy enough. In justifying his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, Bush has always referred to the fact that it did not commit China and India to mandatory emission limits.

Perhaps it does not amount to a large sum, but in such delicate moments for the economy, when so much is being demanded of Spanish families, it would not be too much to ask that the Catholic Church lead by example and contributed what it should instead of dedicating their efforts in justifying their tax shirking.