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public convenience

[puhb-lik kuhn-veen-yuhns] / ˈpʌb lɪk kənˈvin jəns /


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"The view is the only reason I bought it," said developer Simon Ayres, who bought the public convenience from Cornwall Council for £169,000 in March.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had allowed the company’s project to move forward in 2018 by granting PennEast a so-called certificate of public convenience and necessity, but lawsuits followed.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

The board decided that the pipeline met the requirements of Iowa law requiring it to “promote the public convenience and necessity.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2016

Instead, she personally inspected every public convenience in north London.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2013

“Scientific, sensible and sane city-planning” says an authority “with utility and public convenience as its primary consideration produces beauty—the beauty that is the result of adapting successfully a thing to its purpose.”

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince


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