Słownik angielskiego

Such assumptions have been used as a partial justification for women's ineligibility for social security benefits.

The missionary effort was a major part of, and a partial justification for the colonial efforts of European powers such as Spain, France and Portugal.

A true defence arises when some circumstances afford the accused a partial or complete justification or excuse for committing the criminal act.

Maybe this gathering, with its mute testimony to the limitations of AS technology, was a partial justification of Uvarov's project, she thought.

In one of the novel's multiple refrains, we get a partial justification for the casualties: "There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them."

State committees make recommendations to voters on the retention of judges distributed in booklet form with partial justifications prior to each judicial retention election.

This is English law's rather clumsy attempt to reflect the element of partial justification in the doctrine of provocation.

However, the significant reduction in sentence is probably connected with the normative elements in the provocation doctrine, the elements of 'partial justification'.

The Justice Model's philosophy consequently relied heavily on retribution as at least a partial justification for punishment.

The pretext of defending Church interests was used as a partial justification by the Borgias.