Example sentences of "be justified on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detest the fact that so many famous paintings have been moved in the past , against the wishes of their creators ; and that the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ has been justified on the grounds that it belongs to the State . |
| 2 | Large cuts in government funding have been justified on the grounds that those stand to benefit from ‘ near market ’ ( or readily exploitable ) research should pay for it ; government will fund the rest . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is arguable that the application of conduct of business rules must be justified on the grounds of the general good , to which the above criteria will apply . |
| 7 | On the other hand , in the case of his daughter and the justification offered for taking her life , it might be argued that , similar acts of violence could be justified on the grounds that the ultimate goal is the redemption of souls . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 10 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 11 | This emphasis could be justified on the grounds that economics or at least a version of it — lies currently at the heart of government discourse on higher education , but it also reflects the fact that there is more to go on , in terms of information and analysis , with this aspect of the undergraduate curriculum than with the other seven . |
| 12 | In some schools , there is a tendency for any work to be justified on the grounds that it is ‘ part of a project ’ rather than because of its educational value . |
| 13 | It may be that the ban will in due course be struck down , or at least restricted in its scope by the European Court : a total prohibition on television and radio appearances by representatives of a lawful political organisation , for example where they are elected local councillors speaking about domestic issues , can hardly be justified on the grounds of national security or the prevention of public disorder . |
| 14 | The extent to which covenants in restraint of trade can be justified on the grounds of protection of business secrets is discussed in general terms in Part I and in relation to specific types of contracts in Parts III to VI . |
| 15 | In the education field , cuts were justified on the grounds that falling numbers of school-age children could lead to reductions in spending without reductions in standards . |
| 16 | This second modification makes the model more in line with that developed by Barro ( 1976 ) , and is justified on the grounds that what motivates agents ' spending this period is their desire to have a sum of real money available next period . |
| 17 | The decision is justified on the grounds that there was no guarantee that the plaintiff would receive any of the fine and that Parliament could not have intended a workman to be deprived of the chance to seek compensation for his injuries . |
| 18 | This was justified on the grounds that , since lifetime gifts were exempt from inheritance tax , there was no longer double capital taxation . |
| 19 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 20 | However , in Brimelow v. Casson , persuasion of theatre proprietors by a theatrical performers ' protection society to break their contracts with a theatrical manager was justified on the grounds that the wage paid by the manager to chorus girls was so low that they were obliged to supplement it by resort to prostitution . |
| 21 | NBC 's decision , which contravened the code of anonymity usually maintained in regard to victims in cases of sexual assault , was justified on the grounds that her identity was already widely known in the Palm Beach area . |
| 22 | The decision was justified on the grounds that Haibara 's refusal to identify the recipients made it impossible to prove that the Political Funds Control Law had been violated . |