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Add a specious recession-fighting rationale and the temptation may be irresistible.
In a pointed dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, rightly criticized the majority for blindly accepting the law's crime-fighting rationale.
The frequency and danger of early stick-swinging incidents lends support to the oft-cited rationale that fighting acts as a safety valve, preventing more serious incidents.
But whereas that film concentrated on a narrow view of a complex subject — the conduct of the war rather than the at least equally controversial rationale for fighting it — "Inside Job" offers a sweeping synthesis, going as far back as the Reagan administration and as far afield as Iceland in its anatomy of the financial crisis.
In recent days, indeed, as Western leaders wrestled with claims of chemical weapons use on the outskirts of Damascus on Aug. 21, the balance between politics at home and the ability to project military power abroad seems to have shifted into a new and more circumspect era, as voters tire of fruitless wars overseas and of their leaders' rationales for fighting them.
If there is a rationale for Labour fighting the Richmond Park byelection please offer it up.
Instead, they should confine themselves to examining the text of the order to determine if it was "facially legitimate" — if it was written in the right form, properly cited laws, and offered a plausible rationale, such as fighting terrorism.
But after nearly eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the war's strategic rationale still remains tenuous.
Bob's the one least disturbed, floating various rationales for his stand and fighting to defend it.
Assertions of alleged doom are again rationales for why Republicans, namely, are fighting universal health care and refusing to make hard, necessary -- and inevitably painful -- decisions about the future of Social Security.
Abbott can argue that not fighting such suits will allow for a precedent but his rationale seems specious and without sufficient merit.
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