| 词汇 | example_english_special-pleading |
| 释义 | Examples of special pleadingThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. But this seems a recourse to specialpleading. Yet a closer reading of his text reveals an uncomfortable number of instances of what might be termed specialpleading. Quite so, but all the relevant chapters on the origin of life show how the entire area is dogged by incomplete arguments and specialpleading. It will take no specialpleading to argue that another was race. This is not specialpleading, the guidelines suggested, this is general pleading. Some specialpleading is required to decide between the two possibilities. In hindsight, what may seem the most peculiar is the degree of specialpleading that has accompanied some claims for cryptic intervals of evolution. And familiarity will surely engender popularity: the music needs no specialpleading. Yet despite these differences, both fall into the same trap of specialpleading when it comes to extrapolating their favourite mechanism into a universal principle. They seem to call for specialpleading, an extra effort to legitimise their existence, to demonstrate their dramatic relevance. Managing such equity-efficiency trade-offs on the basis of intuition is unsatisfactory in a democracy, as it arouses suspicions of specialpleading and favoritism toward vested interests. To maintain otherwise is simply specialpleading. Of course, at one level, interdisciplinary discussion is all to the good, but it is not merely specialpleading to have hoped for a greater contribution from historians. Despite much specialpleading all around, these claims don't obviously decide between the feuding interpretations just mentioned, though that doesn't mean that such passages are equally friendly to all sides. I am not doing some specialpleading here. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A barrage of specialpleading for assisted area status ultimately is in nobody's interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The case of vested interests and specialpleading have been put forward in this instance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At times, it seemed almost tantamount to specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that the specialpleading which has tended to dominate this particular area will stop. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be no specialpleading that they are not ready, because that excuse is not available to the private sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would not disagree with that; but it seemed to me a piece of very specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he at least listen to a bit of specialpleading from those authorities that have many such houses? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that we shall have no more specialpleading on behalf of certain agricultural groups. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been an awful lot of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So much for the specialpleading we have just heard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would not be specialpleading at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has come out by a manipulation of medical evidence and specialpleading on his behalf. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am thinking in particular—and this is admittedly specialpleading—of reproductive services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is specialpleading, if ever a heard it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know whether that is specialpleading or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But here the rhetoric and specialpleading pour forth like lava. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is much specialpleading and rhetoric abounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Having said that, always in a subject of this kind there is a great deal of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is too much secrecy and specialpleading at present. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The milk price should be the basis not simply for establishing that fact; it should be the basis for specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Further, what is the reaction to the specialpleading for services which we have seen in recent months? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard specialpleading this evening on behalf of each threatened service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am anxious that we do not appear to be engaged in specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a question of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a case of specialpleading, a statement of isolated facts with an almost total lack of judgment of the situation as a whole. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not support specialpleading, even in this case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not, as a trustee of a land mine clearance agency, indulging in specialpleading about land mine clearance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The skill of government is the ability to differentiate between specialpleading, which is undertaken for its own sake, and a genuine grievance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all allowed a little specialpleading now and again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In most speeches there was an understandable specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this specialpleading is really very clever, but it is very remote from the facts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That argument raises a conflict and sounds very much like specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those orders have been won not by specialpleading, but by hard, commercial tendering in competition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One must be careful to bear it in mind that any rationalisation will involve much specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that argument, but there is also the question of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is specialpleading from the casinos and from others who want to protect their current position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is astonishing how it has been proved by this specialpleading that the family means test does not break up family life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a specialpleading for my own constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a case of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I find their case unconvincing and very much a matter of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The latter part of his speech, however, was specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None of the arguments that have been advanced as specialpleading from disabled people are convincing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can well appreciate, as can anyone who has ever taken positions of responsibility, the dislike of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Tranches of £100 million at a time, however eloquent the specialpleading, would put the general allocation of resources into disarray. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a good deal of specialpleading in his speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want another system geared to specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be equally difficult to resist specialpleading for other areas such as the forest parks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only argument against that is vested interest and specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I recognise that the continuing debate is not just specialpleading for a particular group. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is similar to many of the amendments in the section, and it is in the form of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard tonight a classic example of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regarded it as a very charming example of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me to be an object of specialpleading in order to get some extra profits for the profiteers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a certain amount of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to make too much of this specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I, at any rate, shall be guilty of no specialpleading for any particular interest or commodity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had to do some specialpleading last night, working to a brief in which he did not honestly believe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An enormous amount of specialpleading has been heard in this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No matter how much casuistry, how much specialpleading there may be, a deplorable and depressing picture emerges. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was there ever a bigger case of specialpleading? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It appeared to me to be a speech which was composed partly of innuendo and partly of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help feeling that there was an element of specialpleading in it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that is a piece of rather specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I assure him that there is no specialpleading in my speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Finally, fresh milk is the best food in the world—that may be specialpleading—and it is far better than milk tablets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We always use specialpleading about the minutiae as an intellectual fig leaf to avoid the tough decisions. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But without wishing to indulge in specialpleading, the situation in the fruit and vegetable sector is visibly deteriorating. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There has been some specialpleading by some industries or representatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not doing any specialpleading for one association. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not, however, making specialpleading today for my constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard a great deal of specialpleading, a certain amount of sloganising, and much discussion about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that we shall not hear much more of this specialpleading, which annoys many of us considerably. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One may think that that is a specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want just this specialpleading, and making out that our instance is not valid because circumstances are different. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here and there in their historical retrospect they treated us to a delightful extravaganza in the art of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I submit that this is specialpleading on behalf of a particular trade union. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is verbose; it is full of gobbledegook; it contains a great deal of technocratic mumbo-jumbo; and it is specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard in this debate an extraordinary amount of specialpleading for good causes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a "begging bowl" occasion nor one for a vast amount of specialpleading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can use any other adjective, but "specialpleading" has a different connotation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that the debate is not so much a time for specialpleading but a time for drawing special attention to particular local problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It represents specialpleading on behalf of a single product, ecodiesel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help but put in some specialpleading on my own account. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was an extraordinary remark, especially since he is among those who at the same time make specialpleading for their own constituency interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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