Example sentences of "just and " in BNC.

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1 President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter .
2 They were just and merciful .
3 All the same Schneidau 's argument is just and illuminating , so far as it goes .
4 Pound 's championing of Douglas had much to do with a polemic , in itself just and timely , against the presumed and unearned superiority of metropolitan English over the dialects of the British Isles , and of the English-speaking world .
5 At yesterday 's appeal hearing in Brno , a colleague of Mr Devaty , Jana Petrova , handed the judge a statement on his behalf which said that Mr Devaty did not regard his trial as just and would pursue his activities underground while the risk of punishment remained .
6 A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants .
7 Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) .
8 These rights are called ‘ rights of occupation ’ , and where the leave of the court is necessary the court may make such orders as it thinks just and reasonable having regard to the conduct of the spouses , their needs and financial resources , the needs of the children , and all other circumstances .
9 May we not waste our lives in jealousy and greed , but play our part in working towards a more just and equitable future where resources can be divided equally between all the peoples of the world .
10 While their criticism of reductionism is just and their emphasis on ‘ downward ’ causation ( mind influencing matter ) timely , it seems to me that the problem of ‘ interactionism ’ largely disappears when the systemic position of information processing in the life of a subjectively aware organism is understood .
11 Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with .
12 One person may wish to dedicate more of his time to other pursuits and therefore accept the authority of a reasonably just and competent government over a whole range of issues regarding which another may prefer to decide for himself , and be willing to invest the time and effort it takes to enable himself to decide wisely .
13 Most formidable of all is the Scots joiner grandfather , ‘ dour , stern , Calvinistic … a man of few words , just and honest in his dealings , but feared by his family . ’
14 By such an attitude the citizen may responsibly sustain the tradition of advancement towards a more just and democratic society .
15 your conduct was such that it would be just and equitable to make a deduction ;
16 it was just and equitable to make a deduction because you unreasonably refused an offer of reinstatement ;
17 The award will be the amount that the tribunal considers just and equitable in all the circumstances .
18 If a tribunal decides that , although your dismissal was unfair , you were partly to blame , it will reduce your compensation by the amount it considers just and equitable .
19 The time limit can be extended by a further six months if it appears to be ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so .
20 Furness was strong and forceful by nature and wielded a power in his Departments , although he was always just and fair with his employees .
21 He says in 1 John 1:9 , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ‘
22 1 John 1:9 tells us , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ’
23 To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’
24 It was just and equitable to order a sale because otherwise unfairness and injustice would result .
25 All the elements of a quasi-partnership were present and since there had been a loss of mutual confidence , on the basis of Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd [ 1973 ] AC 360 , it was just and equitable that the company should be wound up .
26 The other prisoners in the compound supported their stand as just and reasonable whereupon some fifty warders were assembled and carried Orchin , Richmond and McCready bodily to where a police officer was waiting .
27 The Alliance again appeals to all unselfish men and women — and to the electors who desire to see West Ham governed in the interests of all classes , for all to receive just and fair consideration — to take their part in bringing this about .
28 the court is of the opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up .
29 Even when this distinction is drawn , to the extent that the growth of trade unionism throughout the nineteenth century was a response to the power of local monopolies , unsafe working conditions , the use of physical violence by employees and the attempt to reduce the members of the work force to a situation of total dependency on the owners — a de facto form of slavery — then I believe that as Christians we should applaud the attempts of trade unionists to establish a more just and humane economic order .
30 Taureg had done well and had received her just and sincere due , but this was tot time , and on board the depot ship Omega , first things came first .
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