If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

There is no justification for such misrepresentation.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

This comment and others similar to it, would seem to indicate a possible justification for continuing the status quo.

( This provides whatever real justification there is for the talk about `` reality ''.

but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this, nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ).

One can even argue -- though this is a delicate matter -- that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should come to occupy it.

When individuals repent and believe in Christ ( saving faith ), they are regenerated and brought into union with Christ, whereby the death and righteousness of Christ are imputed to them for their justification before God.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

The ostensible motive for the assassination was a desire to avenge Asahel, and this would be a sufficient justification for the deed according to the moral standard of the time.

These papal bulls came to serve as a justification for the subsequent era of slave trade and European colonialism.

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

An apology is basically a defense or justification for a belief that aims to convince or persuade an audience of a particular point of view.

The argument continues that the only justification humanity could give for its continued existence would be the past creation and continued creation of things like a Shakespeare play, a Rembrandt painting or a Bach concerto.

The concept of a secular day of rest, not directly related to a religious day of rest, has been cited as justification for retention of restrictions on commercial activity on Sunday.

This comprises the central scientific justification for the use of models in wind tunnels to simulate real-life phenomena.

) He became convinced that the church was corrupt in its ways and had lost sight of what he saw as several of the central truths of Christianity, the most important of which, for Luther, was the doctrine of justification — God's act of declaring a sinner righteous — by faith alone through God's grace.

All branches share many essential teachings: a central emphasis on the Lutheran doctrine of justification ( forgiveness and grace ), an essential difference between believers and unbelievers, and that every believer has the authority to testify that others ' sins are forgiven.

:" Because neither the factual underpinnings of Roe's central holding nor our understanding of it has changed ( and because no other indication of weakened precedent has been shown ), the Court could not pretend to be reexamining the prior law with any justification beyond a present doctrinal disposition to come out differently from the Court of 1973 .”

The idea of markets automatically channeling self-interest toward socially desirable ends is a central justification for the laissez-faire economic philosophy, which lies behind neoclassical economics.

Several of these passages are central in the debate between Roman Catholics, and the various streams of Protestantism ( while there is broad agreement on justification by faith, there is no complete doctrinal uniformity on Justification among all Protestant denominations ), who can understand them in quite different ways.

However, the central idea of the work, the justification for a number of human lives that comes up as a result of the sudden collapse of a bridge, stems from friendly arguments with my father, a strict Calvinist.

Tax leakage, which served as Flaherty ’ s central policy justification for his 31. 5 % income trust tax, was addressed during the Goodale Income Trust public consultation process of Fall 2005, during which time HLB Decision Economics worked collaboratively with the Department of Finance and published their findings in paper entitled “ The tax revenue implications of income trusts ”, dated November 24, 2005.

This initial justification of the framework convention is manifested in the preamble of the final version of the FCTC, which states the following issues as central to the treaty's aims:

In this work, the central themes of Volf ’ s work that receive more in depth treatment in other texts — God as unconditional love, the Trinitarian nature of God, creation as gift, Christ ’ s death on he cross for the ungodly, justification by faith and communal nature of Christian life, love of enemy and care for the downtrodden, reconciliation and forgiveness, and hope for a world of love — come together into a unity.

Governments and market monitoring institutions ( such as the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), and central banks ) often try to put policies and rules in place with the ostensible justification of safeguarding the interests of the market as a whole, claiming that the trading participants in financial markets are entangled in a web of dependencies arising from their interlinkage.

This system at least gives the rationale of why it was necessary to have on board a widely disparate atomised populace ; and its use, through the not widely known and little understood function of the Royal Prerogative The origin of which can be traced back to the Middle Ages from where the western system of political power gets its central idea, from the point of view and simple justification of consent of the governed, legitimacy and political power.

The device eventually became obsolete as processor speeds increased, removing the original justification for the device, namely that a central processor was not able to search data as fast as the disc subsystem could deliver it.

The chief attraction in the Lutheran confession was, for him, the doctrine of justification, which would become the central point of his theology.

Following a $ 100, 000 pay-off to former Mayor Matthew Scannapieco the planning board used the distance to the new school as justification to close the airfield citing a reference to a fatal plane crash in 1997.

University theologians sympathized with John the Fearless and even published a justification of the murder as tyrannicide under the theory that the duke of Orléans had been planning to usurp the throne.

Although planners take into account future traffic growth when planning new roads ( this often being an apparently reasonable justification for new roads in itself-that traffic growth will mean more road capacity is required ), this traffic growth is calculated from increases in car ownership and economic activity, and does not take into account traffic induced by the presence of the new road ( i. e. it is assumed that traffic will grow, regardless of whether a road is built or not ).

The " Brunswick Manifesto " seemed to furnish the agitators with a complete justification for the revolt that they were already planning.

The planning permission was quashed on the third attempt by a high court judge on justification grounds.

His justification in the official war history provides a fair and reasonable portrait of Potts, as seen from above in the chain of command: " Potts was a very gallant man and looked for fights, but looking without planning the ways and means to land and support troops on hostile shores was another thing.

It is clear that non-violent resistance is a mode of action in need of justification and limitation in Christian morality, like any other form of resistance.

However implausible this is, it is certainly the case that Aristotle's rigid separation of action from production, and his justification of the subservience of slaves and others to the virtue – or arete – of a few justified the ideal of aristocracy.

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.

This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter ... an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today's world ".

The difficulty in conceiving of or describing an object without also conceiving of or describing its properties is a common justification for bundle theory, especially among current philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition.

Decisive in distinguishing Buddhism from what is commonly called Hinduism is the issue of epistemological justification.

From the time of the Protestant Reformation onward, it has been understood that there is no commonality between the Bible way, which is justification by faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and salvation by works, which the faithful, practicing Catholic embraces.

A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference ( and hence of Bayesian probabilities ) was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every admissible statistical procedure is either a Bayesian procedure or a limit of Bayesian procedures.

The less a given case is like the paradigm, the weaker the justification is for treating that case like the paradigmatic case.

These rules can be ignored only if justification is clear, or can be provided.