Sentence examples for social justifications from inspiring English sources

"It's time that people who are engaged in looting and violence stopped hearing economic and social justifications".

The brief's undersigned, who include former speaker of the Michigan House Rick Johnson, former majority floor leader of the state House Christopher Ward and former U.S. Rep. John Schwarz, argued point by point that there are no legal or social justifications for continuing bans on same-sex marriage.

Without reasonable physiological or social justifications, women are regularly excluded from many tasks, affecting their health and men's as well.

"There's no moral, ethical, or social justification for marketing any product to children," she says.

The social justification for capitalism is eroded by growing hostility towards the cultural conditions of an advanced capitalist state.

"We're not Berea, much as we respect them," Mr. Marx said, adding there would be no social justification for giving free tuition to students from wealthy families.

Even minor lords lived away from their peasant tenants, protected them poorly if at all, and relied on salaried managers to collect payments that, in some cases, had lost all social justification; lordship had degenerated into an unsentimental economic practice.

Since few professional economists in the 19th century accepted this ethical postulate and most were indeed inclined to find some social justification for the existence of private property and the income derived from it, Marxian economics failed to win resounding acceptance among professional economists.

In the end, he said, the show went on -- and before each performance he read a quote by George Cook, who during World War I said: "The social justification which we feel to be valid now for makers and players of plays is that they shall help keep alive in the world the light of imagination.

He contrasted the conception of knowledge as "accuracy of representation" (which he rejected) with a conception of knowledge as the "social justification of belief" (1979: 170).

His notion of "social justification", it appears, simply amounted to the practice of "keeping the conversation going" (whatever this meant) rather than the classical project of pursuing "objective truth" or rationality (1979: 377).