Sentence examples for its central justification from inspiring English sources

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.

Other exceptions seem harder to reconcile with full-blown commitment to informed consent and its central justifications.

One of his central justifications for the takeover movement that he helped spawn was that company managements didn't care enough about the company's owners, a k a the shareholders.

Harnessing Pride For the Communist Party, nationalism has always been a central justification of its rule.

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.

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 White House has been under intense pressure to start an investigation into why no one has found chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq when the administration made the immediate threat of such weapons the central justification for rushing this country into war without most of its important allies.

His capture has been a central justification for Israel's five-year blockade of Gaza.

So the problem is that the central justification equating brain death with biological death is now known to be false.

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.