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
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
Instead, she personally inspected every public convenience in north London.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2013
Even those railways which have exhibited the most “frightful examples” of financing and jobbing, have been found to prove of unquestionable public convenience and utility.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
