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This is an unparalleled decision that makes it clear that what happened to Correa and other women is not a crime of passion, which only serves to justify the actions of the perpetrator, but is a crime based on gender, it sends a message to society that such crimes don't end in impunity, and gives us a tool with which to get other convictions for femicide in the future, with a maximum prison sentence of 40 years without parole. – Martha Lucia Sanchez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You have to make sure that the price is right to justify what the geopolitical risk is. – John Gravelle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's hard to explain what has stood in the way, other than things were working the way they were and the margins weren't particularly high, so it was hard to justify big investments. – Goldcorp Chief Executive Chuck Jeannes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Pro-defense spending actors within China can easily say China is expanding its global role to justify spending on submarines, amphibious ships and aircraft carriers. – Rory Medcalf	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘avenged’ the prophet, there has been a growing trend to justify terrorist acts, such as this murder, by claiming it was an act of vengeance, just this week in Sinai, Egypt, ISIS released a video titled, ‘We Swear We Will Revenge.’. – Veryan Khan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Obama administration is engaging in misleading double-talk on clean coal technology. Although The Obama administration leaned heavily on FutureGen technologies to justify The Obama administration flawed New Source Performance Standards rule, president Obama has now cut the project off altogether — demonstrating President Obama hypocrisy towards the American people and President Obama bias against advanced clean coal technologies. – Laura Sheehan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Using a 13-year-old authorization crafted in different times for a different circumstance under a different administration for a different bit of geography with the support of a vastly different Congress to justify a new war 13 years later is the not the way that the nation should make the grave decision about whether to go to war. – Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For a federal mandate to come about for measles or any other particular illness or disease you'd have to convince me it was necessary, but the question is, is there scientific evidence to justify a politician suggesting that vaccinations programs we have today are unsound? My answer is no. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is a terrorist with a lot of blood on her hands … it’s going to be extremely difficult for the Jordanian government to justify this to the victims of this terrorist atrocity several years ago, jordan has been a very, very important ally to the United States in the war against Islamist terror, but now its position is going to be gravely weakened by this deal with ISIS. – Nile Gardiner	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They shouldn't be transparently self-serving attempts to justify whatever the president or an attorney general wants to do for political reasons. – Chuck Grassley	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is lower default risk in Citgo than in PDVSA, but the difference is not enough to justify taking a yield of 10% when PDVSA's October 2015s offer an annualised yield of around 24%. – Daniel Freifeld	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Last year, when oil was at $100-110 per barrel, many colleagues already spoke about cancelling projects as they were not able to justify them, even at that price. – Khalid Falih	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There wouldn't be any justification that we're in a state of war because the Americans are constantly attacking us. They won't be able to justify it, at least not to their friends. – Jose Daniel Ferrer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But it has allowed the Cuban government to manipulate this status in order to be able to justify its actions. being a relatively recent Miami re-transplant, I think I have an optimistic view. – Natalia Martinez	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In the end, the 50 years of the embargo that we have had without having any type of dialogue with the Cuban government has not done anything to try to change the system, but it has allowed the Cuban government to manipulate this status in order to be able to justify its actions. – George Davila	Found on CNN 9 years ago
One would need a contango in the oil market to justify floating storage. Given the current developments in the oil market this cannot be ruled out, continued oil demand and longer transportation distances combined with no fleet growth should support our expectations for 2015 on average to be better than 2014. – Svein Moxnes Harfjeld	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is a possibility of a swap deal between Rosneft and Essar, which may have got a deep discount in prices to justify freight for a long haul crude. – Ehsan Ul Haq	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have been asking Mobily to provide documentation that could justify this claim and so far they have failed to do so - these claims are not valid, it’s something very serious – there’s no way this amount is feasible or reasonable. – Hassan Kabbani	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders. – Stephen Vizinczey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The queer Christ is necessary because conservatives are using Christian rhetoric to justify discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. – Kittredge Cherry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. – Don DeLillo	added by anonymous 10 years ago

This is an unparalleled decision that makes it clear that what happened to Correa and other women is not a crime of passion, which only serves to justify the actions of the perpetrator, but is a crime based on gender, it sends a message to society that such crimes don't end in impunity, and gives us a tool with which to get other convictions for femicide in the future, with a maximum prison sentence of 40 years without parole.

– Martha Lucia Sanchez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You have to make sure that the price is right to justify what the geopolitical risk is.

– John Gravelle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's hard to explain what has stood in the way, other than things were working the way they were and the margins weren't particularly high, so it was hard to justify big investments.

– Goldcorp Chief Executive Chuck Jeannes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Pro-defense spending actors within China can easily say China is expanding its global role to justify spending on submarines, amphibious ships and aircraft carriers.

– Rory Medcalf

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘avenged’ the prophet, there has been a growing trend to justify terrorist acts, such as this murder, by claiming it was an act of vengeance, just this week in Sinai, Egypt, ISIS released a video titled, ‘We Swear We Will Revenge.’.

– Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Obama administration is engaging in misleading double-talk on clean coal technology. Although The Obama administration leaned heavily on FutureGen technologies to justify The Obama administration flawed New Source Performance Standards rule, president Obama has now cut the project off altogether — demonstrating President Obama hypocrisy towards the American people and President Obama bias against advanced clean coal technologies.

– Laura Sheehan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Using a 13-year-old authorization crafted in different times for a different circumstance under a different administration for a different bit of geography with the support of a vastly different Congress to justify a new war 13 years later is the not the way that the nation should make the grave decision about whether to go to war.

– Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For a federal mandate to come about for measles or any other particular illness or disease you'd have to convince me it was necessary, but the question is, is there scientific evidence to justify a politician suggesting that vaccinations programs we have today are unsound? My answer is no.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is a terrorist with a lot of blood on her hands … it’s going to be extremely difficult for the Jordanian government to justify this to the victims of this terrorist atrocity several years ago, jordan has been a very, very important ally to the United States in the war against Islamist terror, but now its position is going to be gravely weakened by this deal with ISIS.

– Nile Gardiner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They shouldn't be transparently self-serving attempts to justify whatever the president or an attorney general wants to do for political reasons.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is lower default risk in Citgo than in PDVSA, but the difference is not enough to justify taking a yield of 10% when PDVSA's October 2015s offer an annualised yield of around 24%.

– Daniel Freifeld

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Last year, when oil was at $100-110 per barrel, many colleagues already spoke about cancelling projects as they were not able to justify them, even at that price.

– Khalid Falih

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There wouldn't be any justification that we're in a state of war because the Americans are constantly attacking us. They won't be able to justify it, at least not to their friends.

– Jose Daniel Ferrer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But it has allowed the Cuban government to manipulate this status in order to be able to justify its actions. being a relatively recent Miami re-transplant, I think I have an optimistic view.

– Natalia Martinez

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In the end, the 50 years of the embargo that we have had without having any type of dialogue with the Cuban government has not done anything to try to change the system, but it has allowed the Cuban government to manipulate this status in order to be able to justify its actions.

– George Davila

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One would need a contango in the oil market to justify floating storage. Given the current developments in the oil market this cannot be ruled out, continued oil demand and longer transportation distances combined with no fleet growth should support our expectations for 2015 on average to be better than 2014.

– Svein Moxnes Harfjeld

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a possibility of a swap deal between Rosneft and Essar, which may have got a deep discount in prices to justify freight for a long haul crude.

– Ehsan Ul Haq

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have been asking Mobily to provide documentation that could justify this claim and so far they have failed to do so - these claims are not valid, it’s something very serious – there’s no way this amount is feasible or reasonable.

– Hassan Kabbani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

– Charles Baudelaire