Sentence examples for historical justifications from inspiring English sources

This is not only because it would remove one of the country's major historical justifications for its policies in the region – that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, surrounded by various forms of oriental despotism.

English common law came to see innkeepers, boatmen, warehouse owners and granary operators as "common carriers": transport trades compelled to serve all comers, and to charge reasonable rates.In a 2002 paper James Speta of Northwestern University laid out three broad historical justifications for applying common carriage to regulate prices and access.

Thus the historical justifications for the first laws in the US requiring that public restrooms be sex-separated were not based on some notion that men's and women's restrooms were "separate but equal" – a gender-neutral policy that simply reflected anatomical differences.

Thatcher stated that the historical justifications for her economic positions were the policies of the Victorian era.

This, it said, lacked any scientific or historical justification.

Although well established, the surname Plantagenet has little historical justification.

There is also a historical justification for excluding it.

Between them they have a textual or historical justification for just about everything in the movie.

Even the usually formidable Snopes.com allocates Eostre her customary sacred hare, without any historical justification.

Just as some groups cite historical justification for not voting Tory, others have historical reasons for doing so.

Yet even critics of the government concede that the authorities have a historical justification for taking the terrorist threat seriously.