(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.
Harm
Definition:
(n.) Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
(n.) That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
(n.) To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(2) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
(3) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(4) I realise now that the drug is far less harmful then I believed at the time.
(5) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
(6) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(8) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
(9) Repeat patients were more likely to threaten to harm others, have a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, conduct or oppositional disorder and be under the care of a child welfare agency.
(10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(12) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
(13) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(14) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(15) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
(16) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
(17) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
(18) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(19) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
(20) Education can increase compliance and sometimes modify harmful behavior.