public convenience
Example Sentences
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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
There is a cult film by the Chinese director Fruit Chan called Public Toilet, about two guys who, without sexual overtones, just liked hanging out at a public convenience.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2017
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
According to Google Trends, the expression "public convenience" is not often used these days, and then only in the UK and US.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2015
It is certainly a great public convenience and has assisted very materially in such development as the country has made.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
