The mere fact of having a toolkit in my hand was sufficient cause for hilarity.

His mere past existence or current opinions cannot be sufficient cause for barring him.

However, it did find sufficient cause for discipline for unsatisfactory job performance.

For much of the country's history, voluntary acquisition or exercise of a foreign citizenship was considered sufficient cause for revocation of national citizenship.

Nothing can take place without a sufficient cause.

Questions of proportionality and the risks of unintended consequences are rarely given sufficient consideration.

In both cases the grounds of appeal alleged that the sentencing judge had failed to give sufficient consideration to what mitigation there was.

Love and affection, for example, would not constitute sufficient consideration, but a penny would.

One bushel of grain being exchanged for 100 bushels of the same grain would not be sufficient consideration.

Where contractual parties owe each other existing contractual obligations, but a third party offers a promise contingent upon performance of the contract, that promise has sufficient consideration.

The question also remains whether there will be sufficient demand to fill all these new aircraft and airports.

Without sufficient demand, property prices continue to slip.

It had been 30 years since a publisher last thought there was sufficient demand for such a guide.

And in the early twentieth century, there clearly was sufficient demand for publishers to produce introductory works on science - and, significantly, to commission scientists to write them.

Subject to sufficient demand, you will be able to receive loan notes instead of cash.

For example, people often start to build an online business at evenings and weekends, then quit the day job when the e-business delivers sufficient income.

The bonds were supposed to produce a sufficient income to cover the mortgage interest payments and pay an income in retirement.

Still, it has sufficient income to pay some of its contributors for their work.

You will need to have a sufficient income to borrow again, though.

Savers must have sufficient income to obtain tax relief on this amount — contributions cannot exceed earnings.

No admiral, however charismatic, can prevail without captains of sufficient quality, or ammunition.

But their lawyers struggled to get information of sufficient quality to make a difference to the outcome of the hearing.

But what do we mean by sufficient quality?

Last year 598 positions were left unfilled as a third of employers said that they could not find candidates of sufficient quality.

Arsenal gave a patchy performance but still one with sufficient quality to win this tie three times over.

Ensuring a sufficient supply of these will support your natural defences.

The report calls for immediate action to ensure a sufficient supply of aggregates.

The whole question requires further investigation on the part of those who may have a sufficient supply of good fruits of the several species.

Unfortunately the local gas company was not able to deliver a sufficient supply of gas.

Domestically, she cared for the rural population and made sure there was a sufficient supply of food and water.

Residents, given sufficient warning, took to makeshift shelters around the city.

With sufficient warning, satellites can be turned around so their shielding faces the eruption, or switched to a lower voltage, and power can be rerouted from parts of electricity grids.

Unlike many of the affected areas, the town had received sufficient warning and most all who were in danger were able to move to safety.

To detect low-flying aircraft at a range allowing sufficient warning, a high-frequency system for radar picket ships 100 mi offshore was needed.

There had been reported examples of the warning lights operating incorrectly prior to the accident, including the lights failng to activate or activating without sufficient warning time.