The CAT says, "No exceptional circumstance whatsoever … may be invoked as justification of torture," a principle the US endorsed without reservation.
More disappointingly, he references six vague GCHQ case studies as justification of blanket interception of communications moving in and out of the country.
WHEN a company receives criticism about its executive pay practices, a typical defense is to cite a rising stock price as justification of its pay.
Detainee refuses to participate in direct questioning, often citing imaginary or assumed mistreatment of himself, or others, as justification of this refusal in a classic example of al-Qaida counter-interrogation techniques".
The secretary of the Confederate Navy, Stephen Mallory, saw the Virginia's success as justification of his casemate ironclad philosophy — ships built quickly and simply, with large sloping armored sides to deflect enemy gunfire — and quickly ordered more.
Another response sees these adaptive hypotheses as justification of the status quo to the advantage of those who benefit.
As justification of the ban, the German government argued that this maize represented a potential hazard to the environment, in particular to non-target arthropods, which constitute important parts of natural and agricultural biodiversity.
The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing asks for increased transparency as well as justification of drug pricing.
They could use it as justification of their hardline stance and to say that as evidence, when Iran plays hard ball, the west retreats.
Dunham noted that in Belarus, the only European nation to still have the death penalty, capital punishment advocates have cited the U.S.'s ongoing system as justification of their own. .
