Sentence examples for partial excuse from inspiring English sources

This same observation, of course, offers a partial excuse for the economy's lingering weakness.

Disarmament advocates like Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, say unfavourable circumstances at home and abroad are only a partial excuse.

In addition, he argues that there should be a partial excuse when a change in prices would be sufficiently large to leave the promisor with a loss significantly greater than would have reasonably been expected (the bounded-risk test).

Although she has a partial excuse for not doing more on education, in that there were bigger dragons to slay, there is no evidence that she would ever have got the education system in a firm Thatcherite grip.

(His hug rampage is a partial excuse to embrace a sexy nanny without wife Nia Vardelos getting angry, which, naturally, she still does).

See Failure to state a claim, Affirmative defense, Complete defense, Partial defense, Excuse, and Justification.

Bearder said that any government attempts to use Brexit as an excuse for inaction would be "a cop out" after Andrea Leadsom's partial pledge to transpose EU environmental legislation into UK law before it leaves the bloc.

Two years later partial elections gave the republicans control of the Senate, and Mac-Mahon shortly found an excuse to resign.

On the question of whether duress could be a partial defence to murder, on the other hand, there is an arguable analogy to the excuse of provocation, which operates to reduce murder to manslaughter.

They use the excuse of external pressure and discrimination, but really it's not good enough.' He is, unfortunately, taking a partial view.

Sometimes excuses actually excuse.