But some justices said that led to an odd result in which states providing no recognition to gay couples would have greater justification in denying them marriage rights.
The study is also, in a sense, justification for pushing all users in that direction.
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But peacekeeping in Europe is not in itself a sufficient justification for Nato's existence in the years ahead.
An editorial by Pierre Rousselin in France's centre-right Le Figaro suggests that the events in Algeria provide additional justification for France's intervention in Mali.
U.N. support for an election system could help provide justification in the eyes of Iraqis.
Islamic scholars say it has no justification in the Koran, and several have recently spoken out against the practice.
Some would say that there is a public-interest justification in the exposure of law-breaking of any kind by a public figure, which Mr Dallaglio certainly is.
Though this statute is anything but a model of clarity, it does suggest that whoever "provokes" a deadly encounter has a heavy burden of justification in claiming self-defense.
So the Dearing committee has some justification in arguing that, even after the introduction of tuition fees, state spending on higher education should continue to grow in line with national income, and that this would be a wise investment.
It is widely agreed that the root and cause of honour killing is a complex, historical phenomenon which has no justification in Islam's holy book, the Koran, and which has also been known to occur elsewhere in the world and among other religions.
In short, political justification must not begin with deriving the rationality of rule-following from a teleological conception of practical reason.
"The fact that other people might break the law and cause involuntarily deaths is not in itself good constitutional justification, " Mr Murray said.
In the programme, Nicholas Wapshott says Keynes "caused more inferiority complexes with justification than anyone else in his generation".
There is, in short, no programmatic justification for halting production at this time.
What he wants in this subpoena, what he wants from these documents, is the legal justification that explained why this was permissible in the first place.
Departments tend to produce reams of justification of every item in their budgets, bogging down the process.
While this is a common justification for government intervention in the educational sphere, it is both theoretically and empirically suspect.
By itself, money is a flimsy justification for a rise in interest rates when other indicators point in different directions.
And we just can't use or say that my experiences in Iraq or Afghanistan is a justification as to why I broke the law.
Mr Blair's justification for sharp increases in public spending is simple.
What is the justification for this interference in private contracts?
As Jacob Gershman reported in the New York Post in June, Columbia quietly granted Massad tenure earlier this year in a secret procedure that likely was unprecedented in its lack of transparency or justification.
Mr Obama's backers, in fact, can with some justification feel betrayed by the presence of so many figures from the Clinton regime: Mr Summers and Mr Geithner served at the Treasury then, and Mr Orszag was on the NEC.
But the RCN says it can see no justification for a decline in nursing numbers at a time of increasing demand for care, with an ageing population, and growing numbers or patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease.
"The dichotomy between hard economic data and asset market performance continues but unlike over past weeks at least there was some justification for the rally in equity markets following the stronger than expected US April jobs report, " said a market commentary from Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong.
However there is no justification for doing this in a way which imposes harsh cuts in benefits from the outset and leaves local authorities - and therefore benefit recipients - vulnerable to further cuts because they have to take the downside risk of any increased expenditure caused by additional benefit claims in year.
She surmises that two levels of self-justification probably were going on in Madoff's mind.
"Let me be clear: There is no justification for taking innocent life in this way, " Cameron said.
Once again, Batman proves to be the smartest man in the room, reminding Superman that justification for one murder is merely the first step.
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