There was plenty of self-indulgence onstage, but there were also enough fresh ideas to justify the crowd's enthusiasm.
And explanations of human behavior that relied on evolutionary theory were typically met with suspicion in anthropological circles, a legacy of the American eugenics movement, which invoked Darwinian ideas to justify racist efforts to "improve" the gene pool.
Identifying policies like these as racist, showing their connection with opposition to affirmative action, pressing people who hold these ideas to justify their positions, and limiting their ability to oppress others, expands civil rights and does not threaten anyone's freedom of speech.
Spreading democracy throughout the globe was a principal aim of his foreign policy, and administration officials used the democratic peace idea to justify that policy.
When asked if he is going to keep doing this with all the irregular sleep, poor pay, and gruesome accidents Biro tells me that as much as he would love to, it's become a hard idea to justify.
These ideas serve to justify or legitimize the unequal distribution of economic and political power.
As Lambert observes: "The growth white paper that was expected last autumn never materialised, and the impression was given that there simply weren't enough good ideas around to justify such a publication".
Finally, it is important to distinguish paternalism, whether welfare or moral, from other ideas used to justify interference with persons; even cases where the interference is not justified in terms of protecting or promoting the interests of others.
extorted socially constructed ideas about blacks to justify that exploitation.
Arguments that those within China must hew to "harmony" and other allegedly eternal Chinese values and are duty bound to reject pernicious "foreign" ideas are used to justify detentions, arrests, forced confessions and prosecutions on the mainland, as well as to exert pressure in Hong Kong.
Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era's racial disparities away from those policies and onto black people.
