I have never put our justification for action as regime change.
Different writers mean somewhat different things when they talk about consequentialism, but I mean simply an emphasis on expected consequences as a justification for action.
Along the same lines, Russia's clownish xenophobe, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has switched of late from lambasting America to treating it as an ally, probably because Washington now supplies justification for action against Chechnya and other Islamic thorns to Russia's south.
Because so many countries have managed their currency rates for so long, it is unclear that the W.T.O. would uphold any American efforts to make the manipulation of a currency a justification for action.
Negotiating a legal justification for action in Syria, which might begin with the alleged violation of the international ban on chemical weapons use, is not thought to be a significant stumbling block to any potential US-led war effort.
The latest estimated gross domestic product pace of 2 percent for the third quarter and the core personal consumption expenditures rise of 0.8 percent, released on Friday, only added to what many saw as further justification for action.
Even as he steeled himself for an attack this past week, two advisers said, he nurtured doubts about the political and legal justification for action, given that the United Nations Security Council had refused to bless a military strike that he had not put before Congress.
Momentum built for action, and so did the pressure to find a suitable justification for action after the fact.
They're images of a warped religious sensibility, one used as window dressing or as an overly simplistic justification for action.
He asked the council to take emergency action — justification for action on an item not on the agenda — and direct the city manager to contact the commission and ask them to rectify the error.
