Sentence examples for precedent to justify from inspiring English sources
members might now use the ruling as a precedent to justify similar bans.
Even people who oppose the Justice Department's request concede the government made a smart first move, one that could establish precedent to justify more invasive tactics.
"Halakhic" refers to the code of Jewish law; Ms. Greenberg was arguing that when rabbis have wanted to change Jewish practice, they have found some precedent to justify it.
He had been using the Ottoman precedent to justify Turkey's involvement in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Kosovo, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Somalia: "Wherever our forefathers went on horseback, we go, too".
A quick look at the archives would have yielded a precedent to justify switching businesses.
In that case, the three-time world champion coach can merely refer back to similar actions last season that went unpunished if he needs precedent to justify his decision.
Indeed, New York City relied on those precedents to justify its recent rezoning of adult establishments.
- IN recent weeks, President Bush and his administration have mounted a spirited defense of his Iraq policy, the Patriot Act and, especially, a program to wiretap civilians, often reaching back into American history for precedents to justify these actions.
Conceptually this is a bit of a stretch, for in fact he needs no classical precedents to justify work that is closer in spirit to Marcel Duchamp than to Alexander the Great.
And courts of appeals regularly rely upon "plain error" precedents to justify holdings in cases where the standard of review is less deferential.
In establishing this long-standing rule of denying recovery in tort for indirect economic injury, Justice Holmes articulated the rationale, based upon English and American precedent, that continues to justify the nonexistence of a legally cognizable or compensable claim for such attenuated injuries even today: (FN3) "The law does not spread its protection so far". Id. at 309.
