I do it for compassionate reasons.
When John Ehrlichman suggested that the White House aided the Watergate burglars for compassionate reasons, Wallace's interjection — "Compassionate!" — said it all.
By contrast, just 5 of the 142 inmates released for compassionate reasons — or 3.5 percent — in the studied period were rearrested within three years, it said.
The general is forced to consider whether it is OK to lie to the world if you are doing it for compassionate reasons.
Malaria requires a collective response, not only for compassionate reasons (the disease hurts poor children the most), but also because some of the tools for battling it show increasing returns.
He would be the fifth-choice seamer in this England squad, having been called up as cover when Jade Dernbach and Stuart Meaker were released for compassionate reasons at the start of the week.
Just as the majority of Jewish refugees were admitted less for compassionate reasons than to meet the shortage of domestic servants, so today's refugees tend to do the low-paid catering and cleaning jobs spurned by the native British.
In the Commons Keir Starmer, former director of public prosecutions and a new MP, will make a powerful speech about the state of the current law, and his guidelines that stopped prosecutions of those assisting suicide for compassionate reasons.
The rules state that anyone convicted of a crime that would carry a 12-month jail sentence in Britain is deemed unfit to enter the country unless he or she can show compassionate reasons.
There are two key questions for any proposed legislation: will an assisted dying law with up-front safeguards better protect people against potential abuse, and how should the law deal with those who go beyond assisting, and directly end a loved one's life for compassionate reasons?
