Sentence examples for Some dispensation from inspiring English sources

Discussions about the ravages of the game often come around to questions posed mostly to give fans some dispensation, such as: Given where these guys are from, how good were their other choices?

"International businesses that have long-term interests in Greece are going to have to be pragmatic and probably, in the short term, give some dispensation to their Greek counterparties, rather than trying to enforce the terms of contracts that cannot be performed," Mr. Clark said.

"Whilst we tried to get some dispensation we have not been successful.

Innocent gave some dispensations as the crisis progressed.

He'd waited for "some special dispensation," some sign perhaps from God that his woes might be alleviated, but found instead that "the big something/someone was neutral," apparently unconcerned about his plight.

He'd kept waiting for some special dispensation.

Surely the annals of real estate law should provide some special dispensation for what the Starlite's management identifies as the "longest black-owned nondiscriminating bar" in Brooklyn history?

In the air was a sense of arrival, the triumphant serenity of a society whose values and canons, based on station wagons, arcadian green lawns, fathers with briefcases, and mothers in pearls, had become, by some divine dispensation, immortal.

Atheist leaders are more likely to take a literally down-to-earth view of the needs, interests and circumstances of people in the here and now, and will not be influenced by the belief that present sufferings and inequalities will be compensated in some posthumous dispensation.

It is well known that Benedict wants to transform the Church of Rome, which is not to say that he wants to make it more responsive to the realities of modern life as it is lived by Catholic women in the West, or by Catholic homosexuals, or even by the millions of desperately poor Catholic families in the Third World who are still waiting for some merciful dispensation on the use of contraception.

But I'll have to be issued with some sort of dispensation because I am just a mountainy Wicklow man writing about these things.