Sentences with phrase «main justification»

The Trump administration's main justification for weakening fuel standards — less - than - expected consumer interest in efficiency due to lower gas prices — is actually the reason why the nation needs more stringent standards in the first place, The Conversation argues.

These outsiders helped identify and question policies whose main justification seemed merely to be «that's the way we do things here.»

The main justifications for our draconian sentences, meanwhile — deterrence and prevention — are also not working, especially when it comes to illegal drugs.

Use of First Past the Post for both local and general elections now stands stripped of its main justification: delivering strong government, representative of the wishes of the electorate.

The main justification has been to relieve symptoms such as chest pain, known as stable angina, and shortness of breath.

«The main justification for high dairy intake is to meet calcium requirements.

It's a really important one and the main justification for the heavy lifting and disruption that these standards will occasion.

This was not surprising, given that the main justification for the voucher program was the abysmal state of Cleveland's regular public schools.

The main justification for the Kindle's nearly ubiquitous 6 - inch screen was portability.

The main justification for an e-reader's existence is reading and not competition with smartphones and tablets, which are sooo distracting from doing any sustained activity and thus unfit for reading even novels.

This rationale is almost always a bad one if it is the main justification for a business action.

This is when not losing unrecoverable money you've already sunk into a losing proposition becomes the main justification for throwing new money in.

These are major touchpoints and the main justification for a subscription based model, once again Sony and Microsoft had subsidized the actual export process and now they do not; YoYo Games could have just left it at compiling to the target but that would leave console developers, especially Indie console developers to handle all technical issues alone.

One of the main justifications for their hysteria about «ocean acidification» is the terrible threat it poses to our coral reefs.

In recent years, global warming, climate change, and carbon dioxide were the main justifications for the agenda.

Although this is quite an old study, it has been quite influential, and was the main justification offered by the 4th IPCC Assessment Report (2007) that people didn't need to worry about urbanization bias (Chapter 3 of the Working Group 1 report as far as I remember, but I'd have to double check...).

The main justification offered by the groups who assume urbanization bias is negligible is that there have been a number of studies which have claimed to have proved that to be the case.

Remarkably, it seems that their main justification for applying the adjustments has been that they make their estimates better match the tidal gauge estimates, even though the reason why the satellite measurements were being carried out was because the tidal gauge estimates were unreliable!

The main justifications offered for climate alarmism are expensive general circulation models, which cost taxpayers many billions of dollars but prove nothing except that garbage in results in garbage out.

Their main justification for opposing the wind farm is its impact on the local agriculture industry.

Three main justifications are used to defend geoengineering research and possible deployment — it will allow us to buy time, it will allow us to respond to a climate emergency, and it may be the best option economically.

In May, for example, Politico reported that the billionaire's application for permission to erect coastal protection at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare, explicitly cited the consequences of global warming as the main justification for building the sea wall.

Whenever I have attempted to resolve my citizenship issue, I am told my father could never have been a Canadian citizen in 1947 because he was not «domiciled within the country» for the years immediately preceding WWII, so I see that as the main justification for stripping citizenship in the last decade.

The main justification offered by French authorities for the ban is that the burkini (a form of swimwear similar in appearance to a wetsuit) poses a risk to public order, being a symbol of terror and Islamic fundamentalism.

The main justification used in the past is that individual rights would be trampled on.

[126] The main justification usually advanced for maintaining an appeal route to the court is to allow better justice to be done between the arbitrating parties.

The increasing spread of fake news is one of the main justifications MEPs give for supporting the Commission's plan to introduce an extra copyright for news sites.