Example sentences of "could [be] justified " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mulcahy 's 22 per cent figure could be justified only by including rentals of new TVs , video recorders and other hired electrical equipment . |
| 2 | Certainly , no present authority could be justified by appeal to any such explicit consent . |
| 3 | But all those changes could be justified out of respect for the principle of freedom of choice in sexual matters , particularly where the enquiry is so straightforward . |
| 4 | When such practice first occurred it could be justified . |
| 5 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 6 | Just how such lack of pity could be justified was not vouchsafed . |
| 7 | The great expenditure on education could be justified as a means to a thoroughly acceptable common end : economic growth . |
| 8 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton admitted that the company was in technical breach of its main credit agreement but argued that the cost overruns could be justified in the light of improving traffic and revenue forecasts . |
| 9 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 10 | Once personal information gets into such a network it will be difficult if not impossible to restrict access to it ; it could be that such an open system could be justified to the data subject as the latest desirable addition to the role of consumer in the acquisitive society — why not order one 's claret from one 's fireside by the keyboard direct from the château , with instant payment by electronic fund transfer at point of sale , debiting one 's bank account instantaneously ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But this could be justified only if , simultaneously , the same sights were raised to hit European targets . |
| 13 | This new ‘ workflow ’ software opened up vast new possibilities for DIP solutions that could be justified on time savings and service improvements as well as space savings . |
| 14 | But at least a call could be justified , as advisable to inform the Countess of the situation vis-à-vis her husband . |
| 15 | If a three-year course could be justified the supporting subjects would probably be covered in the first year but care would have to be taken not to put too great an emphasis on the technology . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt of the widespread feelings of horror felt across the world at the thought of the use of nuclear weapons , in however ‘ limited ’ a way , and therefore the unacceptability of the view that their use could be justified as legitimate . |
| 17 | Naturally this enforcement pattern could be justified by the inspectorate who see their primary function not as a kind of industrial police force , but more of a pastoral mission rounding up wayward factory owners and showing them the light and contentment to be gained from compliance with current standards of safety , health , and welfare required by law . |
| 18 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 19 | This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) . |
| 20 | If you work for a large company , with plenty of in-house techies to repair a computer if it goes wrong , or you are competent — and confident — enough to fix it yourself , then you could be justified in buying cheap and taking a risk . |
| 21 | These figures could be justified only if consultant expansion had substantially exceeded the 2.8% a year on which the numbers in Plan for Action were calculated . |
| 22 | Their view of women as solutions to the Hobbesian problem of order repeated values dominant in America in the early years of this century , according to which oppression by sex , colour or class could be justified in a laissezfaire , utilitarian philosophy of human relationships . |
| 23 | His view that war could be justified by the need to find peace , a view which won support from later philosophers , theologians and lawyers , was to be an influential one . |
| 24 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 25 | Elizabeth 's subsidy of 1559 could be justified by the expense of the war with France that was just ending , that of 1563 by the expedition to France . |
| 26 | Baxter , argued that third party rights could be justified on one of four bases : international servitudes ; third party beneficiary rights ; dispositive treaties ; and , the view favoured by Baxter , a theory of dedication or reliance , which is closely connected with estoppel . |
| 27 | This is clearly wider than the circumstances outlined by Lord Denning in Ghani where the seizure of the evidence which was totally unconnected with the investigation could be justified partly by the seriousness of the offence in question . |
| 28 | In constituencies covering wide areas and those in which socioeconomic deprivation could be held to create exceptional need for the intervention of an MP , more than one office , permanent or mobile , could be justified . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system . |