What does just mean

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

just

I.adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a just cause (=an aim that is fair and right)

▪ The rebels believed that they were fighting for a just cause.

a just society

▪ We are making progress towards a just society.

a just war (=one that you believe is right)

▪ They believe that they are fighting a just war.

be (just) what/who you are looking for

▪ ‘Salubrious’! That’s just the word I was looking for.

hang on a sec/hold on a sec/just a sec etc (=wait a short time)

▪ ‘Is Al there?’ ‘Hold on a sec, I’ll check.’

It just goes to show

▪ It just goes to show how much people judge each other by appearances.

it just popped out

▪ I didn’t mean to say it like that – it just popped out.

it’s just what I’ve always wanted (=used to thank someone for a present that you really like)

▪ Thanks for the bread machine – it's just what I've always wanted.

just a few

▪ I could suggest many different methods, but anyway, here are just a few.

just a moment (=used when telling someone to wait)

▪ Just a moment, I’ll go and get her.

Just a second (=wait a moment)

▪ Just a second, I’ll come and help.

just about

▪ It’s just about the worst mistake anyone could make.

Just about

▪ ‘Have you finished?’ ‘Just about.’

just across

▪ He knew that just across the border lay freedom.

just along (=a short distance along)

▪ The bathroom is just along the corridor.

just as many

▪ They say the people of Los Angeles speak 12 languages and teach just as many in the schools.

(just) as you wish (=used in formal situations to tell someone you will do what they want)

▪ ‘I’d like it to be ready by six.’ ‘Just as you wish, sir.’

just as (=equally)

▪ His last album sold half a million copies and we hope this one will be just as popular.

just ducky

▪ Well, that’s just ducky.

just like

▪ I’d just like to say how grateful we are for your help.

just like

▪ It’s just like her to run away from her responsibilities!

just like (=exactly like)

▪ Sometimes you sound just like my mum!

just nowespecially BrE (= at the present time)

▪ There are a lot of bargains in the shops just now.

just outside

▪ Bolton is a mill town just outside Manchester.

just passing through (=travelling through a place)

▪ We were just passing through and thought we’d drop in to see you.

just past (=a little further than)

▪ There are parking spaces over there, just past the garage.

(just) the onceBritish Englishspoken

▪ Mrs Peterson came in to see Ruth just the once.

Just then

▪ Silently she closed the door. Just then she heard a noise.

just this/that moment (=only a very short time ago)

▪ I had just that moment arrived.

just to spite

▪ The neighbours throw things over the garden wall just to spite us.

just under

▪ I spend just under four hours a day seeing customers.

just

▪ I just want to be left alone.

just/a little short of sth

▪ She was just short of six feet tall.

just/exactly the same sth

▪ That’s funny – Simon said exactly the same thing.

just/fitting (=appropriate and right)

▪ Death would be a just punishment.

just/only kidding

▪ Don’t get mad – I was only kidding.

just/only/merely etc a formality

▪ Getting a gun license here seems to be just a formality.

just/quite the opposite (=exactly the opposite)

▪ He wasn’t laughing. Quite the opposite, in fact.

sth is just/only the beginning (=used to emphasize that many more things will happen)

▪ Signing the contract is just the beginning of a long process.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

beginning

▪ It was cool, with the sun just beginning to warm their arms and the stones in the wall along the drive.

▪ But string theory is just beginning to be understood.

▪ The wheats look good, with Apollo just beginning to turn, he adds.

▪ A light snowfall was just beginning, and Jasper looked like wonder itself with snowflakes in his hair.

▪ The cold clouds seen at 100 micrometres are large and diffuse, evidently just beginning to condense under their own gravity.

▪ But I was just beginning my career, and had put too much into it to give it up.

▪ Delrina says it will exploit the signal processing capabilities that some facsimile modem manufactures are just beginning to build into their products.

▪ But what I feel instead is acceptance hedging on satisfaction and a faint promise for the day just beginning.

come

▪ His one chance came just before half-time when a defender's shins blocked his shot.

▪ Dunne went down the stairs they had just come up into an immense smoke-filled room.

▪ But I don't think he comes just for that, he seems genuinely concerned for him.

▪ And then on the way over to the bookstore it just came to me in a flash.

▪ It came just 60 seconds after Robert Molenaar had handled the ball in his own box with referee Andy D'Urso unsighted.

▪ He just came down from Kent.

▪ Cheques Unreserved seats available from one hour before most performances - just come along.

▪ They just come out of my mouth by themselves.

feel

▪ Deee-Lite, though, just feel very misunderstood.

▪ And there may be a few scattered works where applause would just feel wrong.

▪ It just felt as though, once, some one had found that it worked.

▪ And she felt just as apprehensive as she always did here.

▪ Once or twice she met Carrie's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did.

▪ I just felt like it was time to go.

▪ I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it.

▪ I just felt I had to play, and get back in uniform.

get

▪ She's had people in, but they can't find any reason for it, and it's just getting worse.

▪ But just getting out of the way of good ideas, important as it is, will not be enough.

▪ Here, mostly you just get right up their patrician noses.

▪ After 1 have one of those, I just get my secretary to cancel my appointments and drive me home.

▪ It's a bit disconcerting to be minding your own business. Just getting on with things.

▪ But we just got better and better as we played together.

▪ He was sure if he could just get the craft to join, the 12 main latches would trigger.

▪ Because whenever I think about it, it just gets me mad.

▪ So I developed five acres on my own account and things just went on from there.

▪ Nope -- the Dogpatch council just went and annexed without notifying them.

▪ Maybe he had been standing there so long his mind had just gone off the job.

▪ He was not ready to go just yet.

▪ His mother surely couldn't object if he just went and looked at it?

▪ Or just go to North Carolina and rent-a place on the Outer Banks.

▪ It just goes on and on.

▪ The league had just gone through a nine-week players strike, putting all of the Super Bowl plans on hold.

happen

▪ However, one of the most remarkable finds for the Gwili has just happened.

▪ Depending on your point of view, one of two things has just happened in boxing.

▪ This picture board just happens to be in a muddy field.

▪ And nobody planned it, it just happened.

▪ They just happened to be around after Mass when volunteers were needed.

▪ The reporters, oddly enough, just happen to be sitting there in the line of fire with nothing better to do.

▪ Panic, that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened.

▪ Presuming there are no last-minute stays, that will happen just after midnight.

like

▪ Oh, while I m here just like to mention the new kit.

▪ I am seventeen, I had a family just like you do, 1 am a daughter, I am a sister.

▪ Since this has cropped up here I would just like to draw attention to it.

▪ It took exactly sixty days, just like I said.

▪ And just like this, under the moon.

▪ Just like the first step in project management.

▪ Female speaker I would just like to thank everyone who has supported me, family, friends, and everyone else.

▪ Just like a little tweety bird!

look

▪ When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish.

▪ I just looked for a short, clean-shaven Mr Barraza.

▪ Instead it just looks offensive-nasty as well as silly.

▪ Now they wanted to look just like the Gibson Girl, or despair of being beautiful or fashionable.

▪ It just looked me over closely, then flew into the roost in the pines to join the others.

▪ They just look forward to meeting the notorious killers again face to face.

▪ I was born a rabbit. just look at me.

wait

▪ That suddenly went to being able to play conservatively and just wait and see what happened.

▪ Some, like my son, are just waiting.

▪ Just wait until she saw that Tony Jones.

▪ Just wait until I suddenly puff myself up and reveal all!

▪ Gennaro asked Elisa if she would please just wait a little longer.

▪ Put things off, wait just long enough until she had a disaster on her hands.

▪ Formentera An almost totally unspoilt island just off the coast of southern Ibiza whose lazy sun-drenched calm just waits to be savoured.

▪ Just wait till you see what the public says in two months.

want

▪ I don't just want her.

▪ Once I picked it up, I just wanted to make sure I held on to it.

▪ I thought I was helping, but I just want to throw the coffee out of the window.

▪ I just wanted this man to approve of my performance.

▪ If I just wanted you, I'd be able to spend time alone with you without going half crazy.

▪ This would be a nice place to come if we just wanted to have a one-on-one chat.

▪ She just wanted to be left alone.

▪ Basically, I just want to be there for them like my dad was for me.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(I'm) just looking

▪ "Do you need help with anything?" "No thanks. We're just looking."

(just) around/round the corner

▪ Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.

▪ I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.

▪ Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.

▪ She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.

▪ She peered round the corner of the house.

▪ She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.

▪ The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.

▪ There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.

(just) as ..., so ...

(just) for once

▪ But for once his famous ability to blend laughter and pain is overcome by the weight of his subject.

▪ But Holmes, for once, was wrong.

▪ In fact for once the human mussel-gatherers have come to the assistance of their natural competitors.

▪ Mrs Saulitis's cheerfulness was lost for once.

▪ Why not, for once, why not?

▪ You can't fault Ayckbourn's production but, for once, his comic vessel has problems carrying such emotionally heavy cargo.

(just) for the hell of it

▪ A lot of rich kids are turning to crime just for the hell of it.

▪ We used to go out every Saturday night and get drunk, just for the hell of it.

▪ For the hell of it l do an extra set of bun-twisters on my back, a perennial crowd-pleaser.

▪ For this interview, talking just for the hell of it, he was immeasurably more relaxed.

▪ He decided to walk down to the promontory by way of the market, just for the hell of it.

▪ He didn't really strike her as a particularly nosy person, just wanting to know things for the hell of it.

▪ I steal things I can't eat, just for the hell of it.

▪ Slanging matches with Craddock just for the hell of it.

▪ Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it?

▪ William Mulholland came to Los Angeles more or less for the hell of it.

(just) in case

▪ In case you missed the last program, here's a summary of the story.

▪ There are spare batteries in there, in case you need them.

▪ A few latecomers are nosing gloomily around in case the professionals have left anything worth having.

▪ Deep tendon reflexes are usually diminished, but in cases with prominent lateral column disease may be hyperactive with extensor plantar reflexes.

▪ How can an individual get permission to photocopy or videotape in cases where there is no fair use exception?

▪ In case a dish fails to appease a customer, Steve Carrasco can always make a flying getaway.

▪ In case you're wondering-for the hospital form-this is how you spell tetanus.

▪ Not typical in cases like this.

▪ They had delivered the correct total quantity of tins but half of them were packed in cases of 24 tins each.

▪ Viral cultures during an attack will give the diagnosis in cases such as these.

(just) out of interest/as a matter of interest

(just) plain Mr/Mrs etc

▪ And being Lord Aviemore is just like being plain Mr Aviemore, right?

▪ Cluedo's Reverend Green is to become plain Mr Green to bring one of the country's best-loved board games up to date.

(just) say the word

▪ Both of them said the word on the same downbeat, which made them burst into laughter at how hilarious they sounded.

▪ He could not bring himself to say the words, so great was his terror of plague.

▪ If there's anything I can do, you've only got to say the word.

▪ No one was actually prepared to say the word revolution-the one word in their vocabulary softened by success.

▪ The last team then has to say the word they had in mind.

▪ When the language helper says the words in a frame he will say them more naturally.

▪ When the truth was devastating, no wonder physicians avoided saying the words and patients refused to accept them.

(just) that little bit better/easier etc

▪ We have put together a few of the most popular itineraries to help make your choice that little bit easier.

(just) think

▪ But now, my dear fellows, let's just think about this a moment, shall we?

▪ I just think we can get it done.

▪ Just think of the businesses that take on people who are on the social.

▪ Just think of the economies of scale!

▪ Just think of those lemon groves outside my aunt's villa in Ravello.

▪ Just thinking about volunteer tutoring, little is known about the most basic of questions.

▪ Now he was trying to think of what he had just thought.

(just) this once

▪ OK, you can stay up till 11, but just this once.

▪ But the smiling man who clutched the real trophy after the game spoke, this once, for everyone.

▪ Carol told Petey this once to help him stop crying so she could take a look.

▪ Hadn't she seen something like this once before? she thought vaguely.

▪ He had sworn this once when he and Adrastus had quarreled and Eriphyle had reconciled them.

▪ Lawyers and supporters of the parents in Orkney questioned both the motives and the methods of this once trusted organisation.

▪ Maybe this once, the world will display itself as immutable.

▪ We've been through this once.

▪ We've done this once or twice before, as I vividly recall.

(just) you wait

▪ It'll be a huge success, just you wait.

I just wanted to say/know etc

▪ I asked them, and this is what they told me. I just wanted to know did you know any more.

▪ In the ambulance, I just wanted to know the damage.

▪ The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.

I know (just/exactly) how you feel

▪ I have a sudden urge to touch her, to hold her, to tell her I know how she feels.

▪ I knew how he felt about me -- a short blind boy who hated leather basketballs.

▪ I know how he feels about me!

▪ I know how you feel about it ... You would rather wait - wait till we're married.

▪ I know how you feel, Doyle thought.

▪ I know how you feel, they're all or nothing.

▪ You ran a decent campaign, John, and I know how it feels to lose.

I'm only/just doing my job

as it happens/it just so happens

be (just) coming up to sth

▪ A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.

▪ He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.

▪ Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.

be (just) the ticket

▪ And for those whose attention spans are trained to a short leash, it may be just the ticket.

▪ Humphrey and Senator Muskie were the ticket, but all that anybody remembered was Daley and his city.

▪ If their tours are as much fun as their zany brochure, Wild Women Adventures could be just the ticket.

▪ If you have a chronic condition that has made it difficult to exercise, this may be the ticket.

▪ They can be used as counters for they are the tickets to our mystic world.

▪ This bus could be just the ticket for a small family.

▪ This was just the ticket, I thought, sitting on my canvas chair, quietly digesting my cake.

be just (good) friends

▪ ""Are you going out with Liam?'' ""No, we're just good friends.''

▪ I'm not going out with Nathan, you know - we're just friends.

▪ I keep telling my mother that Peter and I are just friends but she doesn't seem to believe me.

▪ Billy and I were just good friends, really good mates.

▪ But maybe he and Jane were just friends.

▪ Maureen and I - we thought we were just friends.

▪ My wife and I are just good friends.

▪ They were just friends, and he was fun to be with.

be just what the doctor ordered

be just/exactly so

▪ Everything has to be just so at Maxine's dinner parties.

▪ But this turned out to be just so much more Super Bowl hype.

▪ Flashman is just so bitter - he's blaming us, but we just wanted our money above aboard.

▪ I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon.

▪ I was just so pumped up to do good.

▪ I went downstairs, I was just so struck by musicians and live music.

▪ If it was a microcap fund it would be different because there are just so many microcap stocks you can buy.

▪ Now, nations are just so many men like these.

▪ There were just so many animals around.

get/receive your (just) deserts

▪ Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts.

▪ From Llewelyn he would get his deserts, and be grateful for them.

▪ He was not a spiteful man, but he had enjoyed the sight of Spatz getting his deserts.

▪ Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts.

it's (just) one of those days

▪ "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."

it's (only/just) a matter/question of time

▪ But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.

▪ If he hasn't already killed somebody, then it's only a matter of time.

▪ They think it's only a matter of time before he breaks.

it's (only/just) human nature

▪ It's human nature to put off doing things you don't like to do.

▪ But it's human nature that people-male or female-will do what they are allowed to get away with.

it's just a thought

it's just as well (that)

▪ It's just as well I took the train today - I heard the traffic was really bad.

▪ Perhaps it is just as well.

it's just/only/simply a question of doing sth

▪ Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.

it's only/just a matter of time

▪ It was only a matter of time before Lynn found out Phil's secret.

▪ You'll learn how to do it eventually -- it's only a matter of time.

▪ Your father is dying and there's nothing we can do. I'm afraid it's just a matter of time.

▪ But they believe it's only a matter of time before the disease crosses the county boundary.

▪ If he hasn't already killed somebody, then it's only a matter of time.

▪ They think it's only a matter of time before he breaks.

just because ...

▪ Anyway, you can't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice.

▪ He is just because he is vulnerable and challengeable.

▪ I can't break it, just because he's out of the country.

▪ Just because you shop at the local indoor mall does not make you an expert on the retail sector of the economy.

▪ Perhaps it's just because you don't like her?

▪ So just because you can't find it through a Web search doesn't mean it's not there.

▪ This is not just because Republicans are determined to make it so.

just like that

▪ At home the bowl of the sky is just like that.

▪ Certainly they impute to the accused a degree of mystical malevolence just like that implied in witchcraft charges.

▪ Could he abandon everything now, just like that?

▪ How many people came to this country and bought a house just like that?

▪ I put my arm round him and gave him a hug just like that.

▪ I was on tablets for two days and then taken off, just like that.

▪ The pickup switching configuration is just like that of a Strat, but obviously with a fatter tone from the humbuckers.

▪ They stopped, just like that.

just my luck

▪ Just my luck! The one vacation I take all year, and I have to get sick.

▪ Married, is he? Just my luck.

▪ Great, I thought to myself, just my luck.

▪ It was just my luck to have bags made of light nylon, weighing in at ten kilos in total.

▪ No chance, I thought, just my luck the clocks aren't working.

just now

▪ But the gentleman will not take no for an answer, and even tried to push past me just now.

▪ Her own eyes were a muddy green, and just now they were spitting fire, like a little cat.

▪ I myself had started something of a relationship with her just now.

▪ Maybe the maids would have left some of the rooms open, if there was nobody staying in them just now.

▪ That betraying look in her eyes in the cloakroom just now must have told him he'd won again.

▪ The man, whose helping hand he had just now been the recipient of, was immediately behind him.

▪ When I was in Marcus just now he was normal.

just the job

▪ A bit of companionship with fellow climbers and walkers is just the job at the end of a hard day.

▪ Clinique, though, say their new Electric Shave Primer is just the job.

▪ Computerised databases are just the job for any record storage as many of you may know.

▪ She should not have mentioned Mrs Skipton, must learn to do the job, just the job and no more.

▪ The Cajun Kings were just the job, as was John.

▪ This could be just the job for her - and it would generate some new income to replace what we've lost.

▪ To decide which one is right for you, you have to consider more than just the job you do.

just the thing/the very thing

just/all the same

▪ The potatoes were a little overcooked, but delicious all the same.

▪ He made beer the same way as his grandfather had and today it's brewed just the same way.

▪ My father was a Hasid but he wanted us to know the Scriptures just the same.

▪ Some have felt they were all the same, maybe even the Apostle John.

▪ The look will be different, but the content, the coverage and the crack will be just the same.

▪ These strips are all the same, a sort of busy evolutionary seashore.

▪ Trout fishing is often a great challenge, but rewarding just the same, with gorgeous colored fish and the streamside beauty.

▪ Well, if it's all the same to you, we would rather be the judges of that.

▪ Yet all the same, progress resulted.

let's just say

▪ "So who was she with?" "Let's just say it wasn't Ted."

let's just say (that)

may/might/could (just) as well

▪ And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.

▪ And we might as well get used to it and resolve to cope.

▪ Besides, they cost so much, you might as well get some fun out of them.

▪ I thought I might just as well come down to the point.

▪ If the traveler expects the high way to be safe and well-graded, he might as well stay at home.

▪ It might as well be now.

▪ She might as well see how the enemy behaved themselves in a place like this.

▪ While she was there, they might as well have added the charge of breaching the Trades Description Act.

might (just) as well

▪ And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.

▪ But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable, and one might as well say so.

▪ D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.

▪ He might as well have gotten down on his hands and knees and begged for it.

▪ He said we might as well go before his sister arrived, because once she came, it would be impossible.

▪ I might as well have been a convert, a Gentile.

▪ I thought I might just as well come down to the point.

▪ You might as well go to a branch.

not ... just/quite the opposite

▪ His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome, but threaten to undermine it.

not just a pretty face

not just any (old) man/woman/job etc

▪ And a T'ang is not just any man.

only just

▪ As it turns out, though, one of the greatest albums in his catalog has only just been released commercially.

▪ However, the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun.

▪ It was sparsely furnished, for Anne had only just come into her inheritance, but it was newly decorated and clean.

▪ She must be dreaming, but surely she had only just gone to sleep.

▪ She remembered that he had a knack for getting people to stop shooting, and usually only just in time.

▪ The great black migration from the West Side-and from the Deep South-had only just begun.

▪ Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago.

sb is just fooling

▪ Don't pay any attention to Henry. He's just fooling.

sb was (just) minding their own business

▪ I was just walking along, minding my own business, when this guy ran straight into me.

sb would (just) as soon

▪ Absorbing Costs Self-defeating techniques yield consequences that most organizations would just as soon not deal with.

▪ After all, he delivers oil to you and would just as soon keep doing it.

▪ And a lot of them would just as soon not get this junk e-mail.

▪ And they would just as soon I was not there.

▪ Fiercely individualistic, Texas would just as soon give back the Alamo as institute a state tax.

▪ He would as soon not go.

▪ The dismissal of such people would stir up controversy the president would just as soon avoid.

sth is just one of those things

that's (just) the way sth/sb is/that's (just) the way sth goes

▪ And that's the way he is.

▪ And that's the way it is again this year - everybody is happy with what I am doing.

▪ But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.

▪ Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that's the way it is.

▪ For that's the way it is for the talented twosome.

▪ He's always been a bit on his dignity, I suppose, but that's the way he is.

▪ In the end Capirossi had to do the winning himself and that's the way 1991 is going to be.

▪ The money we got to spend - well, that's the way it is.

that's all I need/that's just what I didn't need

wait a minute/just a minute/hold on a minute/hang on a minute

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "Can I speak to Tony please?'' "Sorry, you've just missed him.''

▪ "Does everyone have to wear uniform?" "No, just the first year students."

▪ "Were there a lot of people there?" "No, just me and David."

▪ A new handbag! That's just what I wanted.

▪ At the moment we're just making enough money to cover our costs.

▪ Can you wait five minutes? I just have to iron this.

▪ Could I just use your phone for a minute?

▪ He's just a kid. Don't be so hard on him.

▪ He and his brother are just the same -- lazy.

▪ He said he was leaving her and proceeded to do just that!

▪ He started his own small shop - at first just selling newspapers, then books and magazines.

▪ His car hit a wall, but he escaped with just cuts and bruises.

▪ I'm not sure just who you mean.

▪ I just can't believe it.

▪ I just got off the phone with Mrs. Kravitz.

▪ I just heard the news! Congratulations!

▪ I just made it to class on time.

▪ I didn't mean to interfere - I was just trying to help.

▪ I think she just wanted someone to talk to.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ I suppose it's just something that I've learned to live with.

▪ I was just going to bed, he said.

▪ No doubt there are many, but I would like to single out just three.

▪ There would be nothing in the Rory Collins thing, she knew that, it was just a wild flirtation.

▪ Tree physiology and dendrochronology are just two of the possible applications for portable computer tomography.

II.adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cause

▪ The defense excused him for just cause.

▪ False testimony in support of a just cause was moral; for an unjust cause it was immoral.

▪ There are too few warriors and too few committed to a just cause.

▪ No longer revolutionaries, no longer a just cause - no longer, after all that, a cause at all.

▪ At that point failure to do so would have the same consequences as any other refusal to work without just cause.

▪ The mythology of this just cause was not inevitably tragic, though usually so.

▪ I could see no just cause for carrying on after arguing vehemently against the idea, then seeing it carried.

desert

▪ Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts.

▪ Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts.

government

▪ For example, one may owe the duty to the just government of foreign countries.

▪ Both reject papal centralization and papal authority as a means for discerning just government.

▪ I have a duty to support just governments in foreign countries, even though they have no legitimate power over me.

▪ Imagine a relatively just government ruling over a relatively morally enlightened population.

▪ The existence of the occasional bad law enacted by a just government does not by itself establish much.

▪ Therefore, consent can not be justified as a necessary means to establish a just government.

▪ Noninstrumental validations of consent are, therefore, limited to consent to the authority of a reasonably just government.

▪ The main argument can not validate wholesale the authority of even reasonably just governments.

reward

▪ To see a job completed to the best of your ability and to the satisfaction of the customer is just reward.

▪ It would be just reward for their recent form, and no-one would begrudge them the honour.

▪ A handsome second-term majority will be his just reward.

▪ A medal of honour was his just reward.

▪ So for all their efforts they got their just reward.

▪ For Edgar Bronfman and Ivan Straker, however, it would have been just reward for their assistance, to the race.

▪ If Beth had got her just rewards, Tyler Blacklock had carved himself a very different destiny.

▪ It features a well thought out line of play which reaped a just reward.

society

▪ Because of these evils, we have failed to create a just society here.

▪ It points to some of the ethical roots of social action and the citizens' responsibilities towards a just society.

▪ As the quote from Guttierrez shows, the struggle to build a just society is itself part of the process of salvation.

▪ Indeed, the struggle for a more just society has historically entailed constant protest and demonstration to change oppressive laws.

▪ The reader will recognize the correspondences between Qaddafi's account of social organization and the Zuwaya image of the just society.

▪ Young's ideas are important because they cast serious doubt on liberal views of a just society.

war

▪ My partner, my family, and in a just war, my country.

▪ There is no such thing as a just war.

▪ Catholic morality approves of the view that to repel an aggressor is to engage in a just war.

▪ What is going on there is not just war, it is genocide.