Last week Leonid's lawyer, Pavel Chikov, filed a case with a the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, claiming that the Russian authorities had neither cited sufficient evidence against the artists nor justified holding them indefinitely in pre-trial detention.
Before allowing Mr. Padilla to be tried in the federal courts, the administration justified holding him as an enemy combatant in part by saying he would be dangerous if let go.
Following Roderick Firth, the distinction between actually held justified beliefs and beliefs one is justified in holding, regardless of whether they are actually held, is often taken to be the distinction between beliefs that are doxastically justified and those that are propositionally justified.
According to a Pew Center study, 85percentt of Republicans support the war in Iraq, 82percentt believe that pre-emptive war is justified, and 72percentt believe the U.S. is justified in holding terror suspects without trial.
Our beliefs about justice are justified (and, by extension, we are justified in holding them) if they cohere in such a wide reflective equilibrium.
The former is a theory of what it means for a belief or a set of beliefs to be justified, or for a subject to be justified in holding the belief or set of beliefs.
In saying such wills are free from a practical point of view, he is saying that in engaging in practical endeavors — trying to decide what to do, what to hold oneself and others responsible for, and so on — one is justified in holding oneself to all of the principles to which one would be justified in holding wills that are autonomous free wills.
This was outrageous even by the standards of the region, and the world is justified in holding Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic responsible.
Reversing itself, the Supreme Court ruled today that Israel is not justified in holding Lebanese detainees as bargaining chips for missing Israeli soldiers.
A3 Israel to Free 8 Lebanese The Supreme Court, saying the government was not justified in holding Lebanese as bargaining chips for missing soldiers, ordered the release of 8 of 15 Lebanese jailed without charges for more than a decade.
From what I was told by the organizers of the Crawfish Festival — who banned drinking from glass containers this year — I am justified in holding the idea man who developed soda-pop wines personally responsible for the fact that the Cochon de Lait Festival in Mansura, Louisiana, ended before I had a chance to sample the cochon.
