Example sentences of "[not/n't] be justified " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish Director of Public Prosecutions , Eamonn Barnes , said in a statement that the evidence provided by the British Crown Prosecution Service was ‘ not sufficient for the purpose and accordingly a prosecution could not be justified ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
| 3 | A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads . |
| 4 | But then , in the last paragraph , they concluded that ‘ we would not be justified in attaching any criticism or blame to the present Government for the Argentine Junta 's decision to commit its act of unprovoked aggression in the invasion of the Falkland Islands . ’ |
| 5 | for some the high cost of machinery could not be justified when only relatively small areas were being cropped and contractors were not readily available . |
| 6 | Consenting to have one 's mail opened by another , to be visited without prior arrangement , and to have another arrange aspects of one 's plans or activities without prior consultation ( e.g. accepting invitations in one 's name ) may or may not be justified by their instrumental value , but in any case they are taken in our culture as expressing the existence of certain attitudes , as in part constituting those attitudes . |
| 7 | Therefore , consent can not be justified as a necessary means to establish a just government . |
| 8 | What can not be justified quantitatively can not command large resources . |
| 9 | Obviously , purely objective criteria such as the patient 's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon . |
| 10 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 11 | The coup-de-grace was administered by the Council in October 1960 , when it was decided that the cost of relaying the Squires Gate route could not be justified , and it would close in October 1961 . |
| 12 | Most Victorian churches had disappeared — upkeep could not be justified as they were quite unsuitable for individual meditation . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Many properties have been lost around the coast , ’ it went on and even more open land is being lost because ‘ works could not be justified ’ . |
| 15 | Assuming that you have retrieved your ferrets , reluctant though you may be to give up there is wisdom in recognising that you have reached the stage where the expenditure of more time and effort can not be justified . |
| 16 | A society in which this right is systematically denied … can not be justified from an ethical point of view … ’ |
| 17 | Accordingly leave to serve Lies out of the jurisdiction could not be justified by Cargolux under article 39 CMR paragraph 2 and Order 11 of the Rules of the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | Pacifism could not be justified by its ability to prevent war . |
| 19 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 20 | They maintained that there should be nothing in Church doctrine , ceremonies or organisation which could not be justified by texts in the Scriptures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On democratic grounds their existence can not be justified . |
| 23 | Then , on 23 September , the 86th general congregation began debate on what had now become a Declaration on Religious Liberty , promptly attacked by Cardinal Ruffini who insisted the title should be ‘ Religious Tolerance ’ rather than Liberty , for the latter could not be justified theologically . |
| 24 | The assumption may not be justified , but it will be held until somebody comes forward to show that there are other ways of making investment in railways profitable . |
| 25 | As we have seen , such claims require more precise demonstration before they can be readily accepted and Olson would not be justified in using the facility of written English to ‘ disambiguate ’ some units of structure , such as sentences and words , as proof of its overcoming ambiguity . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , the way in which it is proposed to structure the rules regulating take-over bids simply reflects a judgment about how far acquiring companies should , through the mechanism of the take-over bid , be given the opportunity of dislodging the managers of the target company — a judgment which can not be justified simply by appealing to the ideal of a free market . |
| 27 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 28 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 29 | Conceptually it was tempting to argue that greater flexibility would allow the sentencing court more discretion if it concluded that full suspension could not be justified , but that a brief experience of imprisonment might have some deterrent effect without first offenders remaining long enough in prison to become acclimatized . |
| 30 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |