Sentence examples for impermissible means from inspiring English sources

The main exception is when just combatants are acting impermissibly, for example by pursuing their just goals by impermissible means.

"Terribly important objectives…appear to require impermissible means".

pp. 168-71 13. "It is far less plausible to maintain that taking some of an innocent man's property is an impermissible means for the prevention of a serious evil, than it is to maintain that killing him is impermissible.

He screamed "Nelzya!" – a strong Russian imperative which means something like "it is impermissible!" – several times down the phone at the US president and then hung up.

Mr. Bollinger of Columbia said that meant clearly that it was impermissible "for the military to say they have a goal of reaching 10, 12percentt".

With so much money on the line and so little warning of the consequences of failing to build exchanges, Sotomayor suggested that depriving some states of tax credits -- as the lawsuit claims Congress meant to do -- would be impermissible.

At heart it represents an impermissible attempt to achieve a political end by litigious means".

The main reason for the illegitimacy of modern states is that they employ forceful means in cases where such force is impermissible.

But, as the Federal Circuit reasoned, enforcement of the disparaging-trademarks provision means that the government approves certain speakers' messages and disapproves others, engaging in impermissible viewpoint discrimination.

In this vein, critics of so-called redistributive policies often claim that while individuals may have positive ethical duties to aid poor or unwell persons, it is morally impermissible to compel them to do so through state-administered tax and transfer or other means, unless universal consent for these policies can be secured (Narveson 2001, ch. 17).

But it did so by means of a legal analysis that, far from insisting that any consideration of race was impermissible, did not even ask the justices to overturn the Bakke decision, the 1978 landmark ruling that by allowing race to be used as a "plus factor" ushered in a generation of affirmative action in public and private college admissions.