" The Court held that in order for school officials to justify censoring speech, they " must be able to show that action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint ," allowing schools to forbid conduct that would " materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school.

Actually, “ Jewish problem ” was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews ; “ drug-abuse problem ” is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs. Szasz cites Rep. James M. Hanley referring to drug users as " vermin ," using " the same metaphor for condemning persons who use or sell illegal drugs that the Nazis used to justify murdering Jews by poison gas -- namely, that the persecuted persons are not human beings, but ' vermin.

This was the first time that French Jews had been covered by such a charter, and Louis was careful to justify his decision with reference to the policies of his ancestor Saint Louis IX, the position of Pope Clement V and an argument that the people of France had demanded a return of the Jews.

He also repeated his claim that the Holocaust is a myth, stating that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War was " invented as a myth by Churchill, Eisenhower and De Gaulle " to justify the destruction and occupation of Germany.

The story of Barabbas has special social significances, because it has historically been used to lay the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews, and to justify anti-Semitism — an interpretation, known as Jewish deicide, dismissed by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2011 book, in which he also questions the historicity of the passage in Matthew.

Such need to justify ( or vilify ) the intermarriage practice became increasingly important after the 1950s as Jews ( as well as other typically endogamic cultures, such as African-Americans ) began to engage in more exogamic relationships.

It was most famously used by the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nazi Party ) to justify actions against Jews, profiteers, Marxists, and the Allies of World War I, whom the Nazis accused of obstructing German national regeneration that resulted in national disintegration in 1918 that they claimed caused Germany's defeat in World War I.

The Rhineland Jews looked to historical precedents since Biblical times to justify their actions: the honourable suicide of Saul, the Maccabees revolt against Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the suicide pact at Masada, and the Bar Kochba revolt were seen as justifiable deaths in the face of a stronger enemy.

Drawing upon the works of Albert Memmi, Adam showed how gay-identified persons, like Jews and blacks, internalize the hatred to justify their limitations of life choices.

* There were, as claimed by some Jews seeking to justify Goldstein's actions as a preemptive strike, substantial warnings of a coming Hamas terror attack against Jews.

In a public address broadcast on Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV channel on 5 November 2010 ( as translated by MEMRI ) al-Zahar appeared to justify the persecution of Jews down the ages and to promise that the Jews were destined to be annihilated.

We must condemn especially those who seek to justify, as Christian deeds, discrimination, hatred and even persecution of Jews ... 3.

One conjecture is that the case was manufactured by the government in an attempt to justify a purge in the Securitate ranks ( by accusing officers of incompetence in solving the case ) as well as to remove most remaining Jews from leading positions inside the government and Communist Party.

The original objective was to justify the subjection of the Canaanites to the Israelites, but in later centuries, the narrative was interpreted by some Jews, Christians and Muslims as a curse of, and explanation for, black skin.

This practice, due to its illegality, has generally become favored by groups excluded from the political mainstream ( e. g. far-left or far-right groups ) who justify their activity by pointing out that they do not have the money – or sometimes the desire – to buy advertising to get their message across, and that a " ruling class " or " establishment " control the mainstream press, systematically excluding the radical / alternative point of view.

Their point is to say that though the implications of an Axis victory, in particular a German victory, would be horrible, that this did not justify Allied atrocities.

Panentheistic Christian Universalists often believe that all creation's subsistence in God renders untenable the notion of final and permanent alienation from Him ; they point to Biblical scripture passages such as Ephesians 4: 6 (" is over all and through all and in all ") and Romans 11: 36 (" from and through him and to him are all things ") to justify both panentheism and universalism.

Another possible approach is a semantic one: the claim that defense and aggression are fundamentally different, a point that is obscured when using terms like " defensive violence " and " initiated violence "; that there is no moral prohibition on defense and no need to justify it or make an exception for it.

Were the offence considered only under this point of view, it would not be easy to assign any good reasons to justify the rigour of the laws.

Mao Zedong's Three Worlds Theory is described as realpolitik by his critics, including Enver Hoxha, who point out that it was not based in a strong ideological basis, being used only to justify China's alignment with the United States rather than the Soviet Union.

In Story on Equity third English edition 1920 page 34 ," where a rule, either of the common or the statute law is direct, and governs the case with all its circumstances, or the particular point, a court of equity is as much bound by it as a court of law, and can as little justify a departure from it.

For Hume himself rarely used the term and when he did, he used it to justify some point he was making.

That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means.

It defined a change in German foreign policy so as to justify the existence of the fleet: Great Britain up to this point had been friendly, now it was officially an enemy.

Pastor Campbell preaches obedience to " God's Laws " to the point of condemning miscegenation, sometimes using rather unorthodox interpretations of certain verses to justify his objections to race-mixing.

He received the rites of unction and coronation from Pope Alexander IV in 1257 and 1259 respectively and tried to justify his divine right to rule, a concept foreign until that point in traditional Navarrese politics ( though see the reign of Sancho III ).

Nevertheless, Arthur Link has called it " a turning point in American constitutional history " because it attempted to establish for the first time " the use of the commerce power to justify almost any form of federal control over working conditions and wages.

The point of this exercise was not so much to justify belief in God, since in the view of medieval Christianity this was self-evident, but to make classical philosophy, with its extra-biblical pagan origins, respectable in a Christian context.

" Clover further argues that the film's sympathies are entirely with Jennifer, that the male audience is meant to identify with her, and not with the attackers, and that the point of the film is a masochistic identification with pain used to justify the bloody catharsis of revenge.

To have reasonable suspicion that would justify a stop, police must be able to point to “ specific and

At that point, the board determined that the prospects for successful additional financing, in the amounts necessary to bring Multiflow to maturity, were too unlikely to justify the company ’ s continuation.

At this point, however, the number of miles saved does not justify the project.

I had the authority of Parliament, the legislative authority to justify me --' Here the Court interrupted him ; but having no reason to give, Finch said in a passion, ' Sir, if you speak to this purpose again, I profess for my part I dare not hear any more: ' tis a doctrine so poisonous and blasphemous, that if you proceed upon this point, I shall ( and I hope my lords will be the same opinion ) desire that the jury may be immediately directed.

His history varied from story to story ; at one point, he was an extremely religious angel of vengeance, who cited Scripture to justify his actions.

Many reviewers cautioned that the graphical update does not justify the $ 40 initial price point, especially with cheaper or free versions of the game available through download services.

Furthermore, these plays postulated that Catholics were opposed to moral behavior and truthfulness, and that the Catholic Church warped the text of the bible to justify sinning.

He was prompted to write it by three motives: ( 1 ) to satisfy the minds of students of the Law and stimulate their interest by a critical examination of the text ; ( 2 ) to justify the ways of God and discover the hidden meanings of the words of Scripture, " for in the Torah are hidden every wonder and every mystery, and in her treasures is sealed every beauty of wisdom "; ( 3 ) to soothe the minds of the students by simple explanations and pleasant words when they read the appointed sections of the Pentateuch on Sabbaths and festivals.

This text was a means to justify women's participation in rhetoric and literary culture.

Some argue that fundamentalist views of religions, which have developed in male-dominated cultures, tend to reinforce emotional abuse, citing the Book of Genesis as an example of a text that has been used to justify men abusing women: " in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee ".

The text of the Article did not precisely define the kind of emergency that would justify its usage, and did not expressly give the President the power to enact, issue or otherwise promulgate legislation.

Just like the preceding account, this text directly links the death of the Pope to an “ extraordinary ” event, which could have been done to justify a miracle associated with the deceased, in order to facilitate his canonisation ( which was carried out by Pope Victor III in 1087 ).