saving clause
Example Sentences
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It seemed to her suddenly that this was the only saving clause in the long list of errors, and she saw the difference it would have made if Francis had known the truth.
From East of the Shadows by Mrs. Hubert Barclay
This was the saving clause in her character.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
To elude this difficulty a saving clause is thrown into this chapter to this effect.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
By 1884, however, the advantages of “settlement terms” became so evident that they were adopted by the Cotton Association, at first for fortnightly periods, with the saving clause originally that they should not be compulsory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
But it is impossible to be continually introducing the saving clause, "all are not so bad as these."
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
