Harnessing Pride For the Communist Party, nationalism has always been a central justification of its rule.
His capture has been a central justification for Israel's five-year blockade of Gaza.
Independent on Sunday Editorial, August 17 "The inquiry that began as a sideshow is casting a spotlight on Mr Blair's central justification for taking this country to war.
Chirac's remarks were used by Blair and his ministers as a central justification for an invasion that was not backed by the UN security council.
He also questioned the scientific proof behind a central justification for the law: that the therapy causes serious harm to minors.
As a central justification, it used pre-emption, or "anticipatory self-defense," which the White House defines as the right of the United States to attack a country that it thinks could attack it first.
This week the media are being correctly excoriated for their failure to be more skeptical of the Bush administration's central justification for the Iraq war: weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist.
The two say the central justification for establishing a no-flight zone over Libya is that the rebels themselves are seeking military help to end the decades of Colonel Qaddafi's dictatorship.
It builds on resolutions against Iraq approved by Congress in 1991 and 1998, but has as its central justification pre-emption, or "anticipatory self-defense," which a senior administration official today defined as the right of the United States to attack a country that it thinks could attack it first.
The evidence about an Iran-Qaeda tie contrasts sharply with what the Sept. 11 commission staff has concluded is a dearth of intelligence showing a working relationship between Iraq and the terror network, a judgment that has alarmed the White House since it appears to undermine a central justification of last year's invasion of Iraq.
The panel's expected call for change at the C.I.A. would be bolstered by the findings of a Senate intelligence committee report that was made public on Friday, which blamed the agency for systematically exaggerating the evidence that Iraq had stockpiled chemical and biological weapons and was pursuing nuclear arms, the central justification for last year's invasion.
