sufficient justification

collocation in English

meaningsofsufficientandjustification

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sufficient
adjective
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/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough for a ...
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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 ofsufficientandjustificationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Still, cohering with our tangled moral intuitions might not besufficientjustificationfor favouring disjunctivism.
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Being an older person has never of itself beensufficientjustificationfor receiving resources.
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Surely, the mere fact that certain interests happen to overlap does not yet providesufficientjustificationthat they should always prevail.
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Further, are these inherently subjective emotionssufficientjustificationfor donation when no direct benefit will result?
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The results do indeed seem to bear this out - asufficientjustificationin itself for using the technique.
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The broadcasting context is asufficientjustification.
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This position is consistent with the liberal democratic presumption that the freedom of citizens should not be interfered with unless there issufficientjustificationfor doing so.
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Reading this report now, it seems unlikely that we would have hadsufficientjustificationfor dismissing everyone.
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We do not consider that the scheme hassufficientjustificationfrom the point of view of transport.
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Saying that someone else has done it first is not asufficientjustificationfor any action.
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I am advised that this prisoner's health has considerably improved since his reception in prison, and afford 3 nosufficientjustificationfor discharge?
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I think that the recognition of the office, and not of the man, is asufficientjustificationfor retaining this.
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I do not believe that that was asufficientjustificationfor failure in investment by the chemical industry, although one can understand their attitude.
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I do not believe that that issufficientjustification.
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We therefore came to the conclusion that there was nosufficientjustificationfor the proposal of the brewers, and rejected it.
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But, apart from some peripheral routes, it was not considered that the report providedsufficientjustificationfor some of the inner primary routes envisaged.
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We can see nosufficientjustificationfor it.
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My reply said that at that time there did not appear to besufficientjustificationfor going ahead.
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