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
The public convenience had not been used for years and the previous owner had bought it from Hackney council, Ellis said.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017
This was, as Trewman's Exeter Flying Post explained, "a matter of great public convenience", for it meant the clock exhibited, as well as the correct time at Exeter, "railway time".
From BBC • Apr. 2, 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
It could be easily redeemed in United States notes and gold coin, and only reissued when demanded for public convenience.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
