France and Turkey have fiercely secular traditions that can be interpreted to justify restrictions on religious symbols; but such restrictions are best applied sparingly, and only in state offices, not in the streets.
At a time when President Putin was trying to justify restrictions on the activities of western NGOs in Russia, Moscow television showed film purporting to be of British agents hiding communications equipment in a fake rock.
These fears were used to justify restrictions of civil and political freedoms promoted by the reformist administration of Khatami and, as a result, civil society and non-governmental organisations suffered a setback.
Instead, now that there are men in power who speak the language of overt misogyny, and use religious concerns to justify restrictions on the lives of women, fans are invoking the story as a symbol of protest.
But Mr. Coombs said it was rational for Private Manning to stop talking because what he portrayed as innocent or joking remarks were being used as "ammunition" to justify restrictions.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that the only reason sufficiently powerful to justify restrictions on efforts to influence the electoral process is the prevention of quid pro quo corruption.
If "free speech trumps any consideration of social harm … almost any showing of harm resulting from hate speech … will be insufficient to justify restrictions on free speech of the kind that we are talking about".
While opponents of legal abortion claim that fetuses experience pain in order to justify restrictions on later abortion, the best scientific and medical research available does not support this assertion.
Berlin's work on liberty was written at the height of the cold war, and was meant to encourage greater intellectual honesty among the communist left, some of whom were tempted to justify restrictions on negative liberty in the countries of the Soviet bloc by claiming to speak on behalf of a higher kind of freedom.
