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The unit in question sought to justify recourse to an independent company on the grounds of urgency and understaffing during a holiday period.

On the other hand utterances of Severus which make Christ's sufferings voluntarily permitted, rather than naturally necessitated by the treatment inflicted on His Body, might perhaps be defended by the consideration that from the union and consequent Beatific Vision in the Soul of Christ, would congruously ensue a beatification of the Soul and a spiritualizing of the Body, as was actually the case after the Resurrection; from this point of view it is true that the possibility of the Humanity is voluntary (that is, decreed by the Divine will) and not due to it in the state which is connatural to it after the union; although the Human Nature is of its own nature passible apart from the union (St. Thomas, III, Q. xiv, a. 1, ad 2).

[...] [...] teacher, community or youth leader to express views which: (a) foment, justify of glorify terrorist [...] [...]

(c) Israel’s claim that weapons are being stockpiled and military installations established in densely populated civilian areas in South Lebanon bears no relation to the truth, and is designed to facilitate the targeting by Israel of innocent Lebanese civilians and justify their slaughter and terrorization, regardless of the fact that all international instruments and, in particular, those of international humanitarian law, outlaw and criminalize the targeting of civilians.

UNRWA justifies this treatment by its need to continue to deliver its services in accordance with its mandate.

Expressing the hope that ill-intentioned efforts to justify and legitimize racism and xenophobia would be rejected, he pointed out that such emerging forms of racism must be addressed, lest their spread pose greater challenges for the international community.

Measures were also being taken to mobilize work to identify and suppress the dissemination on the Internet of information promoting the notion of terrorism and the dissemination of materials or information calling for terrorism or justifying the need for terrorism.

The level of achievement will vary across regions and among individual countries, but it would be a mistake at this review to be defensive or to assign blame for failures if some of the MDG targets are not yet on track to be met by 2015.

The interference was, however, justified as necessary to protect Sweden’s national security.72 It is interesting to note that it ultimately transpired that Leander was in fact fired for his political beliefs, and he was offered an apology and compensation by the Swedish government.

This last statement refers to a country such as the U.S. – not to a small country and not a predominantly non-industrial country, where a different weight of argument might well suggest another conclusion.

Such laws are often justified on the basis of protecting an individual’s reputation, national security or countering terrorism, but in practice are used to censor content that the Government and other powerful entities do not like or agree with.

Reaffirms its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods, practices and financing of terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomsoever committed, regardless of their motivation, as criminal and unjustifiable, and renews its commitment to strengthen international cooperation to prevent and combat terrorism and, in that regard, calls upon States and other relevant actors, as appropriate, to continue to implement the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, which reaffirms, inter alia, respect for human rights for all and the rule of law to be the fundamental basis of the fight against terrorism

[...] course by arguing that the lifting of the embargo [...]

Nothing today can justify this scourge, which is a clear step backwards for the freedom of navigation on the high seas.

(d) To promote the development and implementation of appropriate policies among different criminal justice agencies to ensure coordinated, consistent and effective responses to violence perpetrated against women by personnel within such agencies and to ensure that attitudes of criminal justice officials that foster, justify or tolerate violence against women are held up to public scrutiny and sanction

(2) The effect of such an indicative list is to create a set of rebuttable presumptions based on the subject matter of those treaties: the subject matter of the treaty implies that the treaty survives an armed conflict.

The majority, in an attempt to justify its position, refers to “an increasing tendency over time for the General Assembly and the Security Council to deal in parallel with the same matter concerning the maintenance of international peace and security” (Advisory Opinion, paragraph 41), a tendency which was noted by the Court in its Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall.

[...] can try to understand the roots of [...] [...]

The conclusion has to be in the nature of a rhetorical question, namely: how is it possible that so many incidents resulting in so many deaths and injuries to innocent and defenceless civilians, including children, women, the elderly and infirm persons, and causing such wanton destruction and damage to property, including to vital civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, children’s schools, and water, sanitation and electricity systems necessary for the functioning of daily life and the well-being of the society, is consistently justified and excused, in certain instances as an “error in judgment” and in other instances as an innocent “mistake”?

He recalls paragraph 1 of Human Rights Council resolution 8/8, which “condemns all forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, which are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever and can thus never be justified, and calls upon all Governments to implement fully the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

Recalling article 30 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reaffirming that acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations are activities aimed at the destruction of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy, threatening the territorial integrity and security of States and destabilizing legitimately constituted Governments, and that the international community should take the necessary steps to enhance cooperation to prevent and combat terrorism,3 Reaffirming its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomsoever committed, regardless of their motivation, as criminal and unjustifiable, and renewing its commitment to strengthen international cooperation to prevent and combat terrorism

[...] [...] — to justify what might otherwise [...]

instance or in any circumstances; recalled the request of the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 2005/5 that the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance continue to reflect on the issue, make relevant recommendations in his future reports and seek and take into account the views of Governments and non-governmental organizations; and requested the Special Rapporteur to prepare, for submission to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and to the Human Rights Council at its twentieth session, reports on the implementation of the resolution based on the views collected in accordance with the request of the Commission on Human Rights (resolution 66/143).

[...] [...] existence of any defence in cases of corporal [...] [...]

[...] [...] systematic plan to break the will of the [...] [...]

It should also ascertain how nuclear-weapon States justify continuing to develop and proliferate thousands of nuclear warheads in contravention of their undertakings under the Treaty, thereby prejudicing the credibility and spirit of the Treaty.

Several States have criminalized “justification” of acts of terrorism, while others state that they have enacted relevant legislation on the basis of the Arab Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism.