Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be justified " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this modern view , contractual obligations may only be justified in order to deter or compensate some harm to the interests of another person . |
| 2 | While in the context of the prohibition of quantitative restrictions and measures equivalent thereto there is express provision for national safeguard measures , it is clear that both under Article 36 of the EEC Treaty and under the theory of the protection of mandatory requirements , national measures may only be justified where the matter at issue is not governed by provisions of Community law . |
| 3 | A false belief may nevertheless be justified . |
| 4 | There is the possibility that though I myself would not be justified in making different claims , another person might perhaps be justified in saying that yesterday I did not know , while today I do . |
| 5 | A charge of provinciality might perhaps be justified , but the nobility of the design overrides the criticism . |
| 6 | ( Even if the activities do present curbs on the rights of the general public to go about their business , street action might still be justified where , for example , it brings to public consciousness some injustice that would not otherwise receive a public hearing . ) |
| 7 | We might even be justified as regarding the end of each sentence as the point at which the sender assesses the effect on a potential receiver , imagines a reply , and adjusts the next sentence accordingly . |
| 8 | If , therefore , a person can prove that the statements or criticisms complained of went beyond reasonable or forceful debate and were defamatory ( as for example , a torrent of defamatory invective ) , and were influenced by indirect or ulterior motives , he might well be justified in issuing a writ . |
| 9 | Even if ( and I do not accept this at all ) neutrality could only be justified as a means to a fair contest , it should not be identified with action securing a fair contest . |
| 10 | Notoriously , positivists such as Carnap enunciated a principle of meaningfulness which banned transcendental reflection , but which could only be justified by the sort of argument which it debarred . |
| 11 | But the seven fifteenths and tenths and the three and two-thirds subsidies granted from 1566 to 1581 could only be justified by the threat rather than the reality of war . |
| 12 | Judge Lauterpacht however felt that extension of the Organisation 's powers could only be justified where it was necessary for the performance of its functions and , in this instance , was caused by South Africa 's non-performance of its obligations . |
| 13 | It considered that if the Community 's system of quotas in its present form allowed member states to introduce certain requirements whose compatibility with Community law could only be justified by the necessity to attain the objectives of that system , then such requirements could only be incorporated into the quota licences or other quota management measures which the United Kingdom must lay down for the management of its quotas under article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , and not be imposed as conditions for the registration of vessels . |
| 14 | Before the next match , the selectors debated long and hard over the England captaincy , the problem being that Emburey 's form had declined and his place in the team could hardly be justified ; their solution was to drop him and appoint Chris Cowdrey in his place , whose enthusiastic style of leadership had taken an ordinary Kent side to the top of the table . |
| 15 | This general policy could always be justified on the grounds of efficiency and cost-effectiveness , enabling parental choice to be denied under section 6(3) ( a ) ( compliance would prejudice ‘ efficient education or … efficient use of resources ’ ) . |
| 16 | Significantly , the Commission did not suggest that such longer periods of detention could ever be justified by the desire to continue questioning or by the need further to interrogate . |
| 17 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
| 18 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 19 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 20 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 21 | One might be means-testing and one might be privatising ’ may well be justified . |
| 22 | However , any treatment to relieve pain and suffering may well be justified even if this leads to an earlier death . |
| 23 | Treaty considered above , they would nevertheless be justified from the point of view of the Community system of fishing quotas and its objectives . |
| 24 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 25 | The principle of induction would certainly be justified if inductive arguments also possessed it . |
| 26 | A will also be justified in reaching an accommodation with B rather than exercising his strict legal rights under the contract . |
| 27 | This will not imply that a false belief will never be justified , since the suggestion is that although some beliefs are defeasibly justified , we require indefeasible justification for knowledge . |
| 28 | Insider dealing may likewise be justified on this basis . |
| 29 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 30 | She considers marriage to be a gamble for any woman , a gamble which can only be justified where the woman examines the character and prospects of the man she is to marry . |