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 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
Instead, she personally inspected every public convenience in north London.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2013
It had nothing to do with health, or religion, or morals, or education, or relief of distress, or public convenience of any sort, except to leave them sternly alone.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
