Sentence examples for principle to justify from inspiring English sources

He was referring to the European Union's effort to establish a principle to justify bans on imports considered harmful to the environment or public health.

He asserts the centrality of "tradition" in jazz — as if it needed his defense — and relies on this principle to justify the limits of his taste.

Or, as the Harvard moral philosopher Michael Sandel put it: "Not only did the court fail to produce any compelling argument of principle to justify its ruling.

He criticised Smith's use of the "precautionary principle" to justify her decision to reclassify cannabis and said that by erring on the side of caution politicians "distort" and "devalue" the research evidence.

Agents of governments, employers, families, professionals, and institutions often apply the harm principle to justify paternalism on the ground that an individual, or a class of individuals, lacks the capability for effective self-management in some essential aspect of life.

Comte appeals to the same principle to justify the exclusion of women from public life (197).

Eventually he invokes these principles to justify an almost unimaginably appalling — but also, in its way, perfectly ordinary — betrayal.

And, as the Ellen Terry fiasco suggests, he was himself eminently Victorian: a man who invoked the highest of principles to justify the baser of self-delusions.

She rails not against Muslims but "Islamification", drawing on deep-seated secular French principles to justify her condemnation of religious expression in public places.

On this view, the many attempts to find independent moral principles to justify obligation are not merely mistaken, they are conceptually confused; they exhibit a "symptom of philosophical disorder" (Pitkin 1965, 75).

The abuse of religious principles to justify criminal activity is disgusting.