Sentence examples for somehow mitigate from inspiring English sources

The fundamental hope is to somehow mitigate or forestall climate change.

A spokesman said that the charity "utterly refutes the strong implication of the judge's comments that a child's behaviour can somehow mitigate that of an adult who perpetrates sexual violence against her".

Though he had already finished the film — and his contract gives him final cut — he said he experimented with removing the short combat scene, or trimming it even more, "to somehow mitigate or minimize the problem, or the perceived problem".

Oddly enough, Jobs could again ask Woodside to re-evaluate his request by supplying new evidence that would somehow mitigate the adverse effects of demolition on the stated aims of the town's General Plan.

If we could connect on that, maybe I could somehow mitigate this media onslaught.

The fact that only boys can become sterile seemed to somehow mitigate the girls' fear.

Their likeable personas enabled the pair to sharply play with a wider set of stars but without pulling punches but somehow mitigating the offence.

Judy Finnigan has been forced to apologise after intimating that Evans's crime was somehow mitigated by the fact it did not involve violence and the victim was drunk.

It's an attempt to break the law politely, as though acknowledging that you are breaking the law somehow mitigates the fact that you are breaking the law, when, in fact, it just draws attention to it.

Paul Berman Shoham, Israel To the Sports Editor: Re "Pettitte Confirms Mitchell Report and Says He Used H.G.H.," Dec. 16: Andy Pettitte seems to think that using human growth hormone solely to hasten his recovery from injuries somehow mitigates what he did.

If you have money, you can affect a madcap existence -- running for taxis in your Blahniks, kissing zillionaires -- but these acts are somehow mitigated by the fact that the cabs are not an indulgence but a necessity, that the zillionaires are your rightful dates and that you never, ever contemplated jerry-rigging a dress from a pair of drapes.