Samson Newsome, protested that Lopez was suggesting an "ends justify the means" rationale.
Not only has this "ends justify the means" rationale yielded myriad atrocities, but, by debating the utility of torture, even its opponents are implicated in the conclusion that if torture does work, it is justified.
28 Second, they offer what the evaluation scientist Carol Weiss 27 describes as a programme's 'theory of change', by which she means the rationale and assumptions about mechanisms that link a programme's processes and inputs to outcomes both intended and unintended, as well as specifying the conditions (or context) necessary for effectiveness.
The result, said the report, threatens to be an anti-terrorist treaty which reinforces the "ends-justify-the-means rationale of terrorism".
This is by no means the only rationale for subsidy – or "investment" – but it is the most irreducible.
Members of the defense team argued that such a rationale means that Andersen was, in essence, convicted for something that was not a crime.
It is not clear, however, that the city's financial rationale means much to officers, for whom pay has become an emotional issue.
This makes a certain sense: many books aren't worth keeping around forever, though Virginia's rationale means that the marketplace alone determines which books get a second edition in a sturdier material.
On the quiz show "QI," which he hosts, Fry once took the panelist Alan Davies to task for saying, "None of them work," giving the "none means not one" rationale.
But Gregory wants to talk about the rationale, and by rationale, he means that a guy who is always wrong about everything, Larry Summers, says that maybe there will be a double-dip recession with children dead in the streets, garnished with Armageddon salsa.
You need a clearly focused end, means and rationale.
