(1) There can be disproportionate apologias as well as disproportionate sentences.
(2) For Brown to get me out on polling day, a major apologia will be required: "I am terribly sorry.
(3) For the first time, really, Bush was hip, raved about by music journalists without any hint of apologia or reservation.
(4) All this implies a more complex, dynamic, and sophisticated view of competition than one usually finds in apologia for free markets.
(5) Nor was logic: "We have struck a blow for the preservation of justice, civilisation and Christianity - and in the spirit of this belief we have thus assumed our sovereign independence," was the coda to his long apologia on UDI day.
(6) I feel the need to say this because in questioning Desmond Tutu's decision to empty-chair Tony Blair at a South African seminar , some will assume it is some sort of apologia for the war.
(7) The new Feschrift ends with an autobiographical chapter by Hall himself, the Latin title of which, "Apologia Pro Vita Sua", pays homage to Cardinal Newman – an author not much read in planning circles.
(8) Then, in 1954 he was the ex-boxer, the one who could have been a contender, in On The Waterfront, that curious apologia for informing made by Kazan and Budd Schulberg after they had testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
(9) Americans, too, will wake up and see through Zero Dark Thirty's apologia for the regime's standard lies that this brutality is somehow necessary.
Apology
Definition:
(n.) Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
(n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.
(n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
(v. i.) To offer an apology.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) It took more than three decades before an apology of any kind was forthcoming from the Met.
(3) Corbyn’s planned apology attempts to pre-empt the findings of the long-delayed Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.
(4) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(5) However, LaBoeuf's subsequent apologies were themselves discovered to have been copied from other sources ; his quoting of Cantona's lines are entirely true to form.
(6) Last week, Park offered a public apology after acknowledging Choi had edited some of her speeches and provided help with public relations, but South Korea’s media have speculated Choi played a much larger, secret role in government affairs.
(7) Balls immediately called for an apology from Osborne for the "totally false" allegations.
(8) But he makes no apologies for seeking the limelight.
(9) Speaking on the BBC's World at One, Carlile also revealed that Rennard had held back from officially sending his apology until after the elections had finished so as not to damage the party's chances.
(10) On Thursday, North Korea's Olympic team accepted repeated apologies.
(11) The form and timing of the apology will be agreed by the trust's committee.
(12) Regression analyses suggested that such aggression-inhibitory effects of an apology were mediated by impression improvement, emotional mitigation, and reduction in desire for an apology within the victims.
(13) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
(14) A Liberal Democrat MP who likened the atrocities against Palestinians by "the Jews" to the Holocaust has made a public apology in the face of widespread anger.
(15) On Thursday Belhaj met with British government representatives, who declined to make any apology.
(16) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(17) As Tories demanded a personal apology from the prime minister, the former home secretary Charles Clarke said the position of Draper should be "looked at" along with that of Charlie Whelan, once a key Brown adviser, who was copied in on the email exchange.
(18) (Hodge is privately wealthy, and owns shares in Stemcor, the hugely successful steel business started by her father; she denies that the company avoids paying tax, and demanded and received an apology from the Daily Telegraph when it suggested this was the case.)
(19) Hazard was assumed to have avoided criminal charges when the matter was dropped after he and the teenager met and made mutual apologies.
(20) And I am issuing an apology and correction on my website immediately for having made this comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham.