I wait for Mr. Bush to regret not his words but his recklessness in stampeding us into a pre-emptive war whose most urgent justifications proved false, and the equally astounding lack of care in planning for that war and for its aftermath.
It was generally dismissed as both a distant and undesirable proposition, but the sudden appeal of embryonic stem cells has provided a surprisingly urgent medical justification for moving the technology of human cloning closer to reality.
This would be a considerable affront to his party leader, Nick Clegg (pictured), for whom the urgent need for austerity was the principal justification for committing his party to government.
At times the justification of non-moral knowledge claims can be similarly urgent, as in deciding political, economic, or environmental policy.
The justification for this course of action was becoming more urgent as Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was advancing on the critical Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, Vicksburg.
Some veterans of the war on terror say that lesson should have been relearned, despite the urgent need to uncover whatever possible about terrorist planning — the administration's principal justification of its harsh interrogation policies.
The broad justification for human rights and their normativity that Beitz offers is that they protect "urgent individual interests against predictable dangers ("standard threats") to which they are vulnerable under typical circumstances of life in a modern world order composed of states".
Critics point out, with some justification, that California's energy strategy of focusing on conservation and expanding intermittent sources of renewable energy while ignoring the urgent need for more base-load generating capacity close to big cities was the primary cause of the grid failure.
As there is no scientific justification for present GE-regulation, and as it has, so far, not prevented any harm, our society has the urgent responsibility to reconsider present regulation, which is based on an extreme interpretation of the precautionary principle, and change it to science-based regulation on the basis of traits instead of technology.
