Example sentences of "[not/n't] be justified on " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 . "
3 Thus in United Brands Co. v. Commission ( 1978 ) , the Court held that United Brands had abused its dominant position by charging different prices for bananas according to the member state of their destination , where these prices could not be justified on the basis of transport costs .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 As long as the differential remains at the present level incorporation can not be justified on fiscal grounds .
7 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 .
8 It was agreed by the parties that if the proviso on its true construction operated as a restraint of trade it could not be justified on the ground of reasonableness .
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 Mr Guy Stapleton , chief executive of the Intervention Board , said this week that certification at Barnard Castle mart could not be justified on its steer throughput of less than four animals each week .
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