This is hardly a defensible position.

Big idea, but I think highly defensible.

MELBOURNE Is Israel s military action in Gaza morally defensible?

Now, during the Cold War, that may have been a defensible position for the United States to take.

As such, any recommendation on the matter must be defensible from both a technical and a legal standpoint.

I don't think that's defensible, but I'd really be pleased to get your answers on that any reactions to that later.

One is whether a person has a right to refuse life sustaining medical treatment. The other is whether voluntary euthanasia is ethically defensible.

Conscious of its vulnerability to rocket attacks, Israel knows that needs a defensible state, safe from external aggression. Removing Syria as a threat is a key element in achieving this strategic objective.

The Special Rapporteur believes that the clumsy attempts to conceal their use in the jails he visited can be interpreted as indirect evidence that the Government no longer finds the practice defensible.

Perhaps the most challenging issue that has not been considered quantitatively so far is surmounting the difficulty of disentangling the uses of NTBs that are discriminatory from those that are defensible (on legal grounds).

Every terrorist saw himself as a freedom fighter and wanted to achieve some sort of political end through the random murder of civilians, on the pretext that such action was defensible in the circumstances.

In this context, the Draghi put was a highly defensible action. Refusing to consider any amount of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.

However, I must emphasize one fact there will be no compromise on the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish State, with defensible borders, in full security and without threats and terror.

But this does not necessarily mean that we are witnessing the end of the US Israel special relationship. Even a revolutionary president will not depart from America s core commitments to an Israel that fights for reasonable and morally defensible positions.

Such condescension may have been defensible when South Korea s military dictatorship needed America s political protection and security guarantee, but now the country is a beacon of democracy in East Asia. So, while South Koreans understand the need for compromise and cooperation, they believe that the time is right for a more balanced partnership.

The Indonesian genocide and it deserves to be so described, even if its impulse was ideological rather than ethnic, religious, or national is an alarming case study in the politics of mass murder. It shows what leaders can get away with when they demonize opponents, achieving conceivably defensible ends by morally atrocious means.

Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption. In the US, the expansion of home ownership a key element of the American dream to low and middle income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.

Ah yes, in a world in which ten million children die every year from avoidable, poverty related causes, and greenhouse gas emissions threaten to create hundreds of millions of climate refugees, we should be visiting Paris boutiques and feeling the clothes. If people were really concerned about defensible moral values, they wouldn t be buying designer clothes at all.

In September 1938, Hitler threatened to attack Czechoslovakia in order to bring the ethnic Germans living near the German border under his rule. The Munich Agreement gave this region, referred to by the Nazis as the Sudetenland, to Germany, leaving Czechoslovakia without defensible borders and paving the way for the Nazi invasion and partition of the country the following March.

The left has had an easy task in dominating the debate, partly because the intellectual right s attempt to place all the blame for the crisis on government is thoroughly implausible. It is far more defensible and correct to argue that everyone bankers, households, regulators, and politicians contributed to (and took credit for) the boom while it lasted, only to point fingers at one another when it collapsed.

But, to the hawks who now control Israeli politics, the key to Israel s security depends on depth of defense, for which expansion of the settlements is indispensable. The hawks recipe for survival is threefold continued military and economic support from the US, defensible frontiers through a strategic settlement program, and the carve up of the Palestinian West Bank into disconnected bantustans, or subordinate authorities, incapable of concerted opposition to Israeli policy.

In the private sector, BRIC index funds have proliferated, though Goldman Sachs has radically hedged its own BRIC bet by introducing a second term the Next 11, or N 11 to the debate. This grouping addsBangladesh,Egypt,Indonesia,Iran,Mexico,Nigeria,Pakistan, thePhilippines,South Korea,Turkey, andVietnam to the economic radar, and, together with the four BRIC countries, probably comprises a more logical and defensible first tier of emerging economies.

By far the most defensible rationale for military action is and has been from the outset the humanitarian objective the responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes. I have argued that all of the conditions necessary in this context have been satisfied, and this will continue to be the case so long as the Islamic State maintains its horrifying modus operandi.

In its report (A 59 565 and Corr.1, paras. 157 160), the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change noted that the inability of Member States to agree on a draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism, including a definition of terrorism, was preventing the United Nations from exercising its moral authority and from sending an unequivocal message that terrorism would never be an acceptable tactic, even for the most defensible of causes.