standard of reasonableness

collocation in English

meaningsofstandardandreasonableness

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standard
noun
uk
/ˈstæn.dəd/us
/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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reasonableness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl.nəs/us
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl.nəs/
the fact of being based on or using good judgment and therefore being fair ...
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(Definition ofstandardandreasonablenessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstandard of reasonableness

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In all, he insists that an objectivestandardofreasonableness, based on a principled balance of the relevant interests reflective of equality and reciprocity, should be applied.
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Ripstein's approach to tort and criminal law, then, puts heavy pressure on the objective standardofreasonablenessthat he thinks a political conception of risk ownership will yield.
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Thestandardofreasonablenessimplies that one must look at the circumstances to see what is required.
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Thestandardofreasonablenessis a general standard.
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But what chance we have of going to other countries and persuading them to lower their tariffs if that is ourstandardofreasonablenessgoodness only knows.
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This surely is a sensible addition, because it imports into this branch of the law, instead of the subjective standard of good faith, the objectivestandardofreasonableness.
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I think that if any lawyer were asked that he would say that there was a certainstandardofreasonablenesswhich everyone had to observe in his daily affairs.
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This is so because there will often be no single right answer to the questions that are under review against thestandardofreasonableness.
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When challenged by tenants, rent increases were reviewed by astandardofreasonableness.
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Astandardofreasonablenesswas based primarily on the expertise of the committee.
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The court has an obligation to scrutinize professional practices to ensure that they accord with thestandardofreasonablenessimposed by the law.
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It has been suggested that there is nostandardofreasonableness; that it depends upon the reasonable time for a germ to develop!
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Astandardofreasonableness"simpliciter" was said to apply to decisions that are not supported by any reasons that can stand up to a somewhat probing examination.
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The basic point is that contempt for the law involves rational pursuit of one's ends in the face of standards of reasonableness.
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Yet in practice it is determined by standards of reasonableness informed by culturally and temporally specific norms of socially acceptable behavior.
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Here boundaries are determined by standards of reasonableness.
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