Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] justified [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , consent can not be justified as a necessary means to establish a just government . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 3 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 4 | Accordingly your refusal to concur in Robertson 's telegram is approved and you are requested to inform SAC that we are strongly of the opinion that such contemplated violation of agreed Anglo-American policy can not be justified on grounds of administrative expediency . " |
| 5 | One of the Regional Council 's reasons for refusal of planning permission is that the proposed development falls outside the areas identified for office use in the Lothian Region Structure Plan 1985 and can not be justified on prime land in the Green Belt as there is no essential overriding need , given the supply of office floorspace currently available , under construction or with outstanding planning permission , which is more than sufficient to satisfy development needs within the Structure Plan period to 1996 and beyond . |
| 6 | They conclude that the easterly route does not give value for money and can not be justified on any conceivable cost benefit analysis , or on any opportunity cost analysis , or on any orthodox accounting analysis . |
| 7 | As long as the differential remains at the present level incorporation can not be justified on fiscal grounds . |
| 8 | Although BST is said to be safe and effective , the Commission says its use to produce " turbocharged " cows , capable of producing 20 per cent more milk , can not be justified on animal welfare or economic grounds at a time of overproduction by the EC 's dairy farmers . |
| 9 | But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would . |
| 10 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 11 | A fortiori , the requirement for all owners to reside and be domiciled in the United Kingdom can not be justified in the light of the aims of the quota system . |
| 12 | ‘ Retention of a certification facility at Barnard Castle can not be justified in terms of either efficient administration or public expenditure , ’ he said in a letter to Mr Derek Foster , MP for Bishop Auckland . |
| 13 | The order of Waite J. was wholly inconsistent with the law as so stated and can not be justified upon the basis of any authority known to me . |
| 14 | A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads . |
| 15 | For example , modern jus ad bellum puts considerable emphasis on the right of self-defence in accord with Articles 2(4) and 51 of the UN Charter : the implication of these provisions is that any use of force , even after the outbreak of fighting , is prohibited if it can not be justified by reference to the right of self-defence recognised in Article 51 of the Charter . |
| 16 | We can accept that science is based on induction and Hume 's demonstration that induction can not be justified by appeal to logic or experience , and conclude that science can not be rationally justified . |
| 17 | Consequently , whatever the objectives pursued by the national legislature , such legislation can not be justified by the existence of a Community system of national quotas . |
| 18 | On this statement of principle , I wish to observe that officious intervention can not be justified by the principle of necessity . |
| 19 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 20 | It has been their job to see that local councils do not spend money on activities which can not be justified by statute . |
| 21 | Since tandems etc are at present being carried , and there are no substantial proposed changes to the rolling stock , the ban can not be justified by space constraints . |
| 22 | Since tandems etc are at present being carried , and there are no substantial proposed changes to the rolling stock , the ban can not be justified by space constraints.The extending of the charges will only encourage cyclists to take their bikes by other means , thus losing revenue for the railways . |
| 23 | A society in which this right is systematically denied … can not be justified from an ethical point of view … ’ |
| 24 | This points strongly to the decreasing profitability of upland sheep farming in that the labour and machinery costs of maintaining the drainage system can not be justified against the potential income from the land . |