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ample
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In their view, the lack of transparency in the system is ample justification for any accusation or rumour, however far-fetched.
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Such appearances have provided ample justification for rejecting the complaints of victims and ignoring their cries for held.
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There would seem, therefore, to be ample justification for describing the deviance of 3 as semantic.
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Mrs Clinton unwittingly may have provided ample justification for that request.
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It was a tribute for which the events of the next three years provided ample justification .
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So that here for past services there is ample justification for the promise to give the third share.
economic
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These are discovered in the empirical tests and economic interpretation and justification is supplied afterwards.
further
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There is a further justification for the removal of censorship in libraries and the reason is the cancerous nature of the practice.
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But its demise was further justification to the movie industry that musicals are the kiss of death.
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Women used their supposedly greater spirituality as a further justification for transcending the confines of the private sphere.
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Armed with information like this, the likelihood is that governments will find further justification for managing the media in wartime.
legal
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Their term of office has been extended without any legal justification .
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That is to say, Edward's action had social, feudal and legal justification .
little
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They are also incredibly diverse; there is little justification for derogatory generalizations.
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The merits of the case appear to have left little justification for two decades of expensive stubbornness.
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There is little justification in using weights derived from individually based analyses in a regional formula for two main reasons.
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There is, however, little justification , and quite often a degree of hypocrisy, in such criticisms.
main
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In truth the main justification for the scheme is utterly dissipated.
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This, then, is the main justification for a study of housework.
moral
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Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.
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Deliberately inflicting suffering on people is at least primafacie immoral, and needs some special moral justification .
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That many doctors condone this practice does not in itself indicate any moral justification .
only
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The only justification for staying here is to live for the most fundamental programme of change.
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Greed and the expectation of proper rewards are the only real justification for risk-taking.
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The only slight justification for Batty going I can see, I realised last night.
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The only justification for sub-contracting is if you need to hire in some specialist expertise on a temporary basis.
possible
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They had absolutely no right, no possible justification .
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What possible justification could there be for such coldness?
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So there is no possible justification for introducing the guillotine motion on the ground of an election commitment.
sufficient
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For a long time, this was sufficient justification for Friedmann's assumption - as a rough approximation to the real universe.
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Bernard liked the milk, and that for Laura was sufficient justification for doing anything.
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As previously argued, beautiful end-products are not in themselves sufficient justification for project work.
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Surely this alone would be sufficient justification for the privilege to be withdrawn.
theoretical
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This chapter examines the theoretical justification for such controls, that is, the case for intervention.
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Perhaps more important, better technology was accompanied by theoretical justification for its use.
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Whatever theoretical justification there might be for a dual market it would appear increasingly unjust.
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He provided a theoretical justification for the method of collecting natural histories.
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cost
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This could be an important consideration for a personnel manager when putting together a cost justification for a system.
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Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
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Unhealthy organizations, however, use cost justification as an after-the-fact means of tidying up economic chaos.
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Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective.
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Retroactive cost justification also fails because it disproportionately distributes benefits and costs among organizational constituencies.
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Finally, retroactive cost justification fails because it never takes into account the qualitative costs that self-defeating actions inflict on organizational performance.
■ VERB
find
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The commonalty find their justification in speaking by speaking as the mouthpiece of another.
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Indeed, one can thumb through the Bible and find justification for just about anything.
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Armed with information like this, the likelihood is that governments will find further justification for managing the media in wartime.
give
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Sometimes, woman-centred theory is given a utilitarian justification .
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They will not give justification to our accusers.
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This gives an aposteriori justification of the method used to solve Exercise 6 of Chapter 2.
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Classical myth gives its own justification for this anomaly.
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Their home alone would give Brian every justification for moving.
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It was not as if James had ever given Leo any justification for disliking him.
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In particular, emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments.
need
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He needed no justification , no support, no-one's approval.
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The special status they have is not one which needs grounding or justification .
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It is just that we do treat them as propositions which need no justification but which can justify others.
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The collectors of boys' and girls' magazines need neither justification nor encouragement.
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Deliberately inflicting suffering on people is at least primafacie immoral, and needs some special moral justification .
provide
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Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.
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Such appearances have provided ample justification for rejecting the complaints of victims and ignoring their cries for held.
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Such a definition, or a public-order-threat assessment, provides the justification for wide-ranging and controversial police practices.
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Mrs Clinton unwittingly may have provided ample justification for that request.
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The line between the two is said to provide the justification for judicial review.
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The demonstration was motivated by theoretical work which provides the real justification for the interpretation given.
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Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not.
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He provided a theoretical justification for the method of collecting natural histories.
require
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The emphasis of the molecular level of description requires some justification .
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Normally, the doctrine of restraint of trade has no application to such restrictions: they require no justification .
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All have the appearance of reason but in the end require justification by faith.
seem
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The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for itin particular circumstances.
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In this case, there seems to be some justification for that view.
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There seems little justification for the use of thiazides in these patients.
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It intrudes into Carina, and seems to have no justification for separate identity; it lies between Canopus and Beta Carinæ.
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There seems no justification for this situation.
use
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Such assumptions have been used as a partial justification for women's ineligibility for social security benefits.
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The Court was eager to use the legalist justification of the reaction.
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These speculations are used as justification not only for opposing more prosecution advocacy by employed lawyers, but for blocking the entire application.
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Such publications were sometimes used as justification for practices whose motives or consequences were anything but generous or liberating.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She had her residence permit taken away, without any justification
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There's no justification for cruelty.
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There is no justification for holding her in jail.
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What justification can there be for paying women lower wages?