Some professor of a "discipline" called Sustainable Energy in Business defends the destruction of cooling towers thus: "You have to think: how much does this enhance the landscape compared to what else we could do if we weren't having to maintain the towers?" This is the very epitome of unreflective short-termism and a not-particularly-convincing justification for sanctioned vandalism.
Had all this been sanctioned by international law it might have had some justification.
Specifically, they contend that this court has only sanctioned the use of racial classifications to remedy identified discrimination, a justification on which respondents have never relied.
Defence secretary Chuck Hagel recently told reporters that any military action would occur "within the framework of legal justification", but stopped short of saying it would be sanctioned under international law.
For example, many participants perceived that some women welcome breech presentation as a justification for a planned CS which would otherwise not be sanctioned by a clinician.
A conservative theory of justification might sanction naturalism given a broadly naturalist starting point; but our starting point, as we have seen, is not that of trumping naturalism: it is at most compatibility naturalism.
The court, Judge Kramer recalled, had rejected this argument: "Certainly the fact alone that the discrimination has been sanctioned by the state for many years does not supply such [constitutional] justification".
Capell stated quite reasonably — and, we know now, with considerable justification — that "for all anyone knows, the differences between the manuscripts and these publications represent modifications sanctioned by Bruckner".
The reform included six elements: eg the doctor's first choice should be graded sick leave; the doctor should initiate work-related activity by 8 weeks (and if not, a written medical justification should be given to the authorities); and doctors who fail to comply with the new rules can be sanctioned by being stripped of the right to issue sick leave certificates.
There is no justification that would sanction such a ploy," the company's attorneys wrote.
