historical justification
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandjustification
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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justification
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdʒʌs.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒʌs.tə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a good reason or explanation ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandjustificationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This theory of paradigm-change has the advantage of redressing its relativism by locating the observer within a long-enduring paradigm of scientific rationality, which thus obtains contemporaryhistoricaljustification.
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It was thehistoricaljustification, to which he has already referred, which confessedly disappeared at that point, for the reasons which he has indicated.
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Attacking with armed forces is, after all, attacking with armed forces, whatever thehistoricaljustificationmay be.
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Nor is there anyhistoricaljustificationfor its retention.
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There is nohistoricaljustificationfor the driftnet industry.
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These jaundiced reflections of a misspent youth have nohistoricaljustification.
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There is anhistoricaljustificationfor these charges.
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It is perhaps right to consider thehistoricaljustification.
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The first is thehistoricaljustification.
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No longer can thehistoricaljustificationof operational independence take precedence over the imperative of being able to track and deal with offenders effectively.
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But, in my submission, there is reasonable logic in that and somehistoricaljustification.
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It certainly hashistoricaljustification, because local rates have had to carry this burden all through.
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Today a judgment debt is no longer payable in priority to other debts, and some of thehistoricaljustification for the retention of this ancient right has disappeared.
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If we go on in this way, we shall have a social security system with a variety of special payments for pensioners, each with its own political orhistoricaljustification.
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Nor, indeed, anyhistoricaljustificationbecause the enacting formulae for some centuries do not appear to have borne very much relation to the particular problems being faced.
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Today, the festival goes beyond its original physical boundaries and way beyond any kind ofhistoricaljustification.
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There is no realhistoricaljustificationfor this but it is an important fact for this small town.
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