They were in a position where they needed to shore up their legitimacy, but also justify the fall of the Julio-Claudians.

They were eventually forced or chose to withdraw, concluding that the wealth of the land did not justify the extensive garrisoning requirements.

They then justify the atrocities of their own side by claiming it to be a lesser evil compared with allowing the evil power to have its own way.

They understood those statements as an attempt to justify the signing of the accords in accordance with historical-religious precedent, with step agreements to reach a final goal.

They believe that the person who ruled for a few months was the real son of Cyrus, and that the story of his impersonation by a magus was an invention of Darius to justify his seizure of the throne.

They justify their behaviour by invoking the great sanctions – God, the King, Parliament, the People – that unscrupulous statesmen, motivated by the naked desire to be on top, have used throughout the ages.

They may fight villains, but not for the reason of justice, or if it is for the cause of justice will take an " ends justify the means " stance.

They who are already fallen into all that is odious, and shameful and miserable, cannot justify fear ... Let the dangers never be so great, there is the possibility of safety while men have life, hands, arms and courage to use them but that people must surely perish who tamely suffer themselves to be oppressed.

They would act in the name of the people they represented and whose consent would justify the convention.

They are, therefore, interrelated, and, in most cases, it will be their convergence that will justify the conclusion that a punishment is " cruel and unusual.

They were not immediately successful, as she was able to parry their verbal thrusts by replying to their many questions with questions of her own, forcing them to justify their positions from the Bible, and then pointing out their inconsistencies.

" They reintroduced the ancient concept of God-given glory ( farr ) to justify their rulership, attributing these qualities to Ali while tracing the king's genealogy through the fourth Shiʿite Imam's mother to the royal Sassanian house.

They obtained a Papal Bull naming Laval in partibus bishop of Petra, a diocese at the time in Muslim lands, since the population of New France was too small to justify a diocese.

They had already successfully defended the Transvaal's annexation by the British Empire during the first Anglo-Boer War, a conflict that had emboldened them and resulted in a peace treaty which, lacking a highly convincing pretext, made it very difficult for Britain to justify diplomatically another annexation of the Transvaal.

They consider that their fight is a legitimate one using legitimate means, and thus their crimes should be more appropriately called political crimes and justify special treatment in the penal system ( as if they were soldiers in a war and therefore covered by the Geneva Convention ).

They justify their hunger by saying, " Being in a constant state of terror makes us constantly hungry !".

Hart goes on to say that when once asked what poets do for Australia, Hope replied that " They justify its existence ".

They are also used in areas too remote to justify the expense of pumping water and sewage piping to, but where there is a need for toilet facilities, such as at remote campsites or along walking tracks.

They carried documents intended to support accusations that Nicholson had been conspiring against the people of New York, and to justify the propriety of Leisler's actions against Nicholson's " oppressive " rule.

They feared that it would be used, as similar ideas had been in the past, to justify the status quo, entrench ruling elites, and legitimize authoritarian political programmes.

They cited such figures to portray themselves as the main threat to Labor and justify why they were the direction the LCL needed to take.

They further contended it has allowed the president to assume war powers, makes opposition to the " war " seem unpatriotic, and was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, although cooperation between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein had not occurred.

In light of modern scientific knowledge about the origins of the earth and the universe, many modern interpretations particularly by apologists, prefer to view the word " day " ( Arabic: يوم ) as used in the Qur ' an to mean an arbitrary period of time or epoch ; They justify this view by explaining that the usage of the word " day " to mean an arbitrary period of time is not uncommon.

They are usually drawn when the cross-section is small and quantities are too low to justify rolling.

They become philosophic abstractions of a private and problematic relevance, or mere catchwords in religious customs which had in them a diminishing part of active belief.

This brings us to the fact that the realities we are dealing with lie not in the field of civil legislation, but in the realm of conscience and religion: They are moral judgments and matters of theological belief.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

They base this belief on, which says that, along with " the dead in Christ ", " we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ".

They investigated the practices of a disaffected student of Mesmer, one Charles d ' Eslon ( 1750 – 1786 ), and despite the fact that they accepted that Mesmer's results were valid, their placebo-controlled experiments following d ' Eslon's practices convinced them that mesmerism was most likely due to belief and imagination rather than to any sort of invisible energy (" animal magnetism ") transmitted from the body of the mesmerist.

They also held a belief in millenarianism.

They are degrees of ( partial ) entailment, or degrees of logical consequence, not degrees of belief.

( They do, nevertheless, dictate proper degrees of belief, as is discussed below.

They took this belief into action by using their famed defensive strategies to defend smaller states from invasion from larger states, hoping to dissuade feudal lords from costly warfare.

They hold that all true Christians are united in belief in Jesus Christ, which can be judged against such documents as the Apostles ' Creed.

They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies ( such as those of late classical Greece and late Roman mythology ) rarely break from this rule, although closer examination of the earlier myths of those cultures reveal a very different distribution than the contemporary popular belief.

They include delusions of being controlled by an external force ; the belief that thoughts are being inserted into or withdrawn from one's conscious mind ; the belief that one's thoughts are being broadcast to other people ; and hearing hallucinatory voices that comment on one's thoughts or actions or that have a conversation with other hallucinated voices.

They are of uncertain date and authorship, and seem to have been worked over by several hands in the interest of diverse forms of belief.

They see nothing in Scripture that in any way contradicts this age-old Christian belief that the reality beneath the visible signs in the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ and no longer bread and wine.

They believe that reason and belief are complementary and that religion and science can co-exist and guide them in their understanding of nature and God.

They also do not enforce belief in creeds or dogmatic formulas.

They were led to this belief by the analogies existing between some of the teachings of the Zohar and certain Christian dogmas, such as the fall and redemption of man, and the dogma of the Trinity, which seems to be expressed in the Zohar in the following terms:

They are sometimes referred to as goatsuckers from the mistaken belief that they suck milk from goats ( the Latin for goatsucker is Caprimulgus ).

They were therefore a key part of the maintenance of maat, the ideal order of nature and of human society in Egyptian belief.

They have no religion and their sole morality is the defense of reason, and therefore they are not particularly moved by pity or a belief in the intrinsic value of life.

They were an elaborate civilization with advanced architecture and religious belief.

They are listed as: The world was created by God ; God is one and incorporeal ; belief in revelation ( including the divine origin of tradition ); man is called to righteousness and endowed with all necessary qualities of mind and soul to avoid sin ; belief in reward and punishment ; the soul is created pure ; after death it leaves the body ; belief in resurrection ; Messianic expectation, retribution, and final judgment.