ultimate justification

collocation in English

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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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 ofultimateandjustificationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He is concerned with the metaethical issues of theultimatejustificationof moral judgements.
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In fact, political and social considerations are theultimatejustificationfor intellectual and philosophical activity.
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Theultimatejustificationof (27) must therefore depend on experiment.
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But if such reasons are possible to provide, then theultimatejustificationof political liberalism must be based on reasons that reasonable people can reject.
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The existence of such data and the need to make it widely available provides theultimatejustificationfor the journal and will secure its future.
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Indeed, he regards it as theultimatejustificationfor all these earlier stages and procedures.
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That was theultimatejustificationof the expenditure—that it was in the manifesto.
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Theultimatejustificationof any punishment is not that it is deterrent but that it is the emphatic denunciation by the community of a crime.
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Theultimatejustificationfor those and other emergency powers was that they were needed to deal with exceptional circumstances.
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That is theultimatejustificationof this amendment.
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We are also concerned about theultimatejustificationof the scheme.
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That was hisultimatejustification.
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Theultimatejustificationfor juries is that the public trust the jury, and ultimately only the jury, in decisions affecting the liberty of any member of the public.
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