The sophistry involved in agreeing to enact the recommended reforms but disputing the justification for them did not reflect leadership; it only proved that you can't solve a problem unless you first admit having one.
Although proponents of such standards, created by using percentile-based methods, provide post hoc evidence for customization (by demonstrating appropriate perinatal mortality differences (19– 21)), this justification has been disputed (22, 23).
It has been written that Pakistan has waited until this moment to recognise Gilgit-Baltistan as a province of Pakistan because it would also serve as justification for India to formally integrate disputed areas of Kashmir into its borders.
While the justification for a shooting may be disputed, it's hard to get around the basic statement of fact that an officer shot and killed someone.
In an interview with the New York Times, the president disputed a main justification for the pipeline – its economic benefits – and reaffirmed he would reject the project if it expanded carbon pollution.
The national media praised his courage when he publicly disputed the U.S. justification for the invasion of Iraq and celebrated his success as a national victory when he became the forth Egyptian to win Nobel Prize.
From the beginning, part of the justification for the international investor-state dispute system has been to create a "neutral forum" for conflicts to be resolved, with investors giving up the right to seek diplomatic support from their home countries when they file cases like this.
"In view of Iraq's material breaches, the basis for the cease-fire has been removed, and use of force is authorized". The legal justification for the invasion is in dispute among many nations as well as some international lawyers, who argue that the Security Council had to rule on a "material breach" or give specific authorization before any invasion could take place.
There is no justification for the existence of a privatised system of dispute settlement that is neither transparent nor accountable.
Diplomats fear that if the administration fails to demonstrate that the weapons threat from Iraq is immediate, it may provide a justification for countries locked in all kinds of prickly disputes to attack their adversaries.
Finally, the article examines certain normative implications of the expressive theory, including a novel function of adjudicative impartiality, a new justification for the system of public adjudication, and a trade-off between dispute resolution and dispute avoidance.
