Of course, I believe this argument was once advanced as a reason that World War I was impossibleWhat do our readers think?
That this notion is now being advanced as a reason for giving British officials an opportunity potentially to tamper with the report indicates that Woodward has been unable to come up with an even remotely plausible excuse for his proposed interference.
In a 1978 review of Hugh McLean's biography, the translator Richard Freeborn wrote: "Our ignorance of Leskov can never again be advanced as a reason for ignoring him". But McLean's book is long out of print, and when Pevear and Volokhonsky published their new translations it represented yet another rediscovery of this serially rediscovered writer.
Delays in obtaining development approvals have been advanced as a major reason for shortages if not also increase in cost of housing.
It seems to be one of the reasons why so esoteric a subject as systems engineering advanced as rapidly as it did.
In the case of a posh film like Antichrist, it's the supposed sanctity of artistic endeavour that's advanced as the reason.
However, others believe that while palliative care users face particular difficulties, these should not be advanced as reason not to provide equal opportunities for those who want to be involved [ 12].
The influence of old boys' networks, higher dropout rates among female barristers who leave to have children, lifestyle choices and sexism have all been advanced as reasons for the persistence of male dominance in the upper reaches of the judiciary.
They give the assignment in advance for a reason.
When he was executed, the Scottish Covenanters objected, but avoided advancing the sanctity of kings as a reason.
The terrific fit between Britvic, the Fruit Shoot folk, and AG Barr, the Irn Bru crew, was advanced last year by both companies as a reason to merge.
