Sentence examples for might be excusable from inspiring English sources

Treating an employee this badly might be excusable if the company that hired him was struggling for survival, but this is far from the case.

That might be excusable if the production offered any fresh insight into character but here theatrical effect takes precedence over everything.

Such a slippage might be excusable for a rock band, but for an electronic act whose claim was always on the future, it might border on the criminal.

Altogether, it looks as though Scottish companies are paying about £190m a year more for water than their counterparts in England.All that might be excusable if the aquacrats were doing much better with the extra money.

The lack of a coherent response to the crisis of 2008 might be excusable if Mr Paul supported a convincing strategy for preventing the need for bail-outs in the future, for example by breaking up large banks.

That might be excusable if economic policy were being steered by a professional team in the White House; but it too is short of economists, particularly ones that are close to Mr Bush.

'It doesn't bother me at all!' Still, among the bickering, there were some interesting points of view, some occasions when red-light jumping might arguably be excusable.

She certainly made a lot of mistakes, but given her times and her circumstances, they might well be excusable," says Callil.

To run one set of misleading stress tests (in 2010) might be considered excusable; to do this twice during the same crisis is unconscionable.

At best, torture is morally justified in some one-off emergencies just as murder and cannibalism might be morally excusable in a one-off emergency on the high seas, or desertion from the field of battle might be morally justifiable given a one-off emergency back home but absolutely nothing follows as far as the legalisation/institutionalisation of torture is concerned.

I remember Dean said to me, when he apologised, 'Sorry, mate, I didn't mean for it to come out on air...'." Amla smiles wryly at Jones's mistaken belief that his words might have been excusable if his mic had been switched to mute.