Example sentences of "can be justified " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the duty of editors to ensure that inquiries into people 's private lives are not undertaken , and information or pictures about their private lives are not published , unless inquiry or publication can be justified as being necessary in the public interest . |
| 2 | Their use of subterfuge can be justified only to obtain material which ought to be published in the public interest and could not be obtained by other means . |
| 3 | The threat of more rises is apparent in a promise by BR to review by 1991 whether changes in quality targets can be justified , ‘ taking account of passengers ’ willingness to pay for them . ’ |
| 4 | These apparent exceptions can be justified as involving the exercise of a legal right , in the case of chastisement or correction , or as needed in the public interest , in the other cases . |
| 5 | If one had reason to contribute only a little to the scheme this might show that the scheme is unjustifiable since it requires greater sacrifice than can be justified . |
| 6 | Any hypothetical choice situation which requires agreement among the parties will have to impose strong restrictions on the grounds of choice , and these restrictions can be justified only in terms of a conception of the good . |
| 7 | The issue is not so much whether or how far the sense of grievance or of legitimate right can be justified objectively but rather its potency as a force in the equation , just as an unwavering Jewish belief in the right to all Eretz Israel has proved indispensable to the achievements of Zionism . |
| 8 | In all of these novels , the disorders and inconsistencies can be justified as the attempt to convey the limited viewpoint of an incompetent or unreliable narrator , or the workings of a confused and obsessed consciousness . |
| 9 | Unless omissions or combinations can be justified the method should use the basic six stages described at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 10 | Finally , to return to where we began , you may wonder whether the resources in time , effort , and money which will be involved in treating the child can be justified . |
| 11 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 12 | Have a good look at that remedy and see if your intuitive feelings can be justified . |
| 13 | Any programme targeted on an explicit need can be justified if it is followed through with adequate resources . |
| 14 | It is difficult to understand how such selectivity can be justified , in view of the fact that these studies and their results are quite incompatible with the major theoretical thrust of the book , which is complexly cognitive in the best Binet tradition . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , to bring about the desired end , the ultimate goal must be the establishment of but one religion world-wide based on a well-defined ‘ god ’ that can be justified in all languages . |
| 16 | This practice can be justified on the grounds that many narrative pieces , including those related in our extract , were written separately in Germany in 1798–9 ; and so the philosophy can be regarded as a later intrusion . |
| 17 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 18 | At this stage it is difficult to assess whether the potential benefits to accounts users which may arise from improvements in audit judgments and financial reporting as a result of regulation can be justified against the costs , particularly at the smaller end of the market . |
| 19 | I should be grateful if you would consider whether exceptions of this kind for categories of pupils can be justified in the case of English . |
| 20 | Judge John Rutter said : ‘ Only a custodial sentence can be justified . ’ |
| 21 | For instance , if it is supposed that some of our perceptual judgements have a form of intrinsic credibility , and if a set of canons of rationality can be justified without recourse to the special sciences — they are analytic , self-evident , or a conventionally adopted linguistic framework — then it may be possible to trace the credibility of all rational beliefs to that possessed by this foundation . |
| 22 | Adopting the ‘ method of science ’ involves resolving to use whatever rules can be justified by reference to the hypothesis of reality . |
| 23 | If the ‘ ultimate aim ’ is specified as the securing of predictive control over the future run of experience , then either this can be justified as providing a means to achieving further practical ends , or , if it stands in no need of justification , it may be possible to explain why people have it without the explanation undermining its appeal . |
| 24 | I feel a modest increase can be justified with your idea of adding the cost of the journal being one to explore … |
| 25 | Alternatively , when the costs of transport are high and local production can be justified only by the creation of a single plant , competitors may choose to collaborate , as in the case of consortium oil refineries . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that there are three theoretical approaches to regimes binding erga omnes : they can be regarded as a special concept within the law of treaties constituting an exception to the res inter alios principle ; they can be justified on a public law basis whereby a group of States assume quasi-legislative competence to create a regulatory regime for a defined territory in the overall community interest ; or other processes such as recognition , acquiescence , estoppel , historic title , or the formation of customary international law can produce an erga omnes effect on treaties intended to have that effect . |
| 27 | It can be justified as preserving the independence of the organisation , and the freedom of action to perform its functions . |
| 28 | In a true political democracy , such a declaration is of course perfectly allowable ; and none the less so for least that the general interest will not suffer from the exercise of the right ; and that the loss or diminution of any other opposed rights can be justified . |
| 29 | Not all criticism , however , can be justified . |
| 30 | Aesthetic terms " used in the discussion of style ( urbane , curt , exuberant , florid , lucid , plain , vigorous , etc ) are not directly referable to any observable linguistic features of texts , and one of the long-term aims of stylistics must be to see how far such descriptions can be justified in terms of descriptions of a more linguistic kind . |