Sentence examples for excuse for causing from inspiring English sources

In this way ignorance can be a legitimate excuse for causing unjustified harm.

However, since Aristotle, theorists have recognized that ignorance is only a legitimate excuse for causing unjustified harm when we are not responsible for our ignorance, i.e., when the ignorance is non-culpable (Nichomachean Ethics, Bk III).

Additionally, trial judges control who is excused for cause, and often reflect both their own and the system's biases.

Someone with a criminal background is vulnerable to being excused for cause by the judge, particularly in criminal cases, as is a person who has been a victim of a crime, has a family member in prison, or has a bias against police or law enforcement.

A lot of lads here have been looking for any excuse to cause trouble.

Yet Trump's own inability to explain what should fill that great void provides neither excuse for inaction nor cause for despair.

"There is no excuse for the unnecessary suffering caused by Guinea worm disease," said Jimmy Carter, Carter Center chair and 2002 Nobel laureate at a press conference that followed in Tamale.

And, if she did make some excuse for her injuries, could whoever caused them use that against her if she went to court?

The trial judge failed to conduct a voir dire sufficient to impanel an unbiased jury and improperly failed to excuse several jurors for cause.

7 Though there's no excuse for terrorism, the AFR have cause to be disgruntled.

Unfortunately, explained Elliott, co-founder of the Consumer Travel Alliance and a nationally syndicated travel columnist, airlines sometimes use weather as an excuse for delays that are primarily caused by other issues.