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make allowances
verb as in extenuate
verb as in justify
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"We've got to make allowances for people who are trying to do the right thing and were fractionally over the limit," added Ch Insp Morgan.
People make sense even when they aren’t sensible; but science, when it doesn’t, requires you to make allowances.
Those findings make allowances for the fact Amorim's experience is in a less competitive league, but say his strategic intelligence rating, his tactical command rating, success-adjusted attacking co-efficient and shot creation ratio are all even higher than Klopp's, with an equivalent shot conversion rating and overall levels of possession.
It would seem that his stern morality does not preclude him from being practical enough to make allowances when political power is at stake.
Under Title VII, employers must make allowances for a worker's religious observance or practices unless that would cause the business "undue hardship" - which the Supreme Court in a 1977 case called Trans World Airlines v.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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