"justify" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The administration has been concerned that Mr. Jiang would use the battle against terrorism to justify repression in western regions, including those near Afghanistan.
- Cuba uses this sense of victimization both to justify repression at home and to avoid harsh verdicts abroad.
- In an interview with the author, Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine wrote that American politics has frequently used fear to justify repression.
- When society at large is threatened, the psychopaths presented tend to be of the most violent ilk, as if to justify social repression by exaggerating the threat.
- But critics contend that the Government has long exploited the northern threat, and even exaggerated it, to justify self-serving repression.
- The Congress has also said China is exaggerating the threat from terrorists in order to justify repression in the region.
- His rejection of attempts to "justify" repression raises questions about whether the Kremlin is taking a tougher line against partial rehabilitation of the dictator's image.
- "No matter how small it is for the military, they could use it to justify past repression."
- At a minimum it would put pressure on Mr. Castro to ease the human rights abuses, by making it much more difficult for him to justify continued repression.
- The international community must also be alert to opportunistic attempts by states to justify domestic repression and crackdowns by claiming that they are "fighting terrorism".
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