| 词汇 | example_english_damage-limitation |
| 释义 | Examples of damage limitationThese 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. As an educational policy, damagelimitation is an admission of defeat: we can't replace dialect variation. There thus does not need to be a huge contrast between the policy of damagelimitation and the policy of drug prevention. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Because tourism can also have a harmful impact on the environment, there needs to be a strategy for damagelimitation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The real clue to his speech was when he said that he commends the exercise in damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he agree that the emphasis in all anti-drug education should be not merely damagelimitation but proactive resistance to the taking of drugs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was shown even within his argument, which was merely a damagelimitation operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only feasible objective of regional co-ordination seemed to be damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What lawyers who are properly instructed should aim at is a damagelimitation exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are basically an essential damagelimitation exercise, but what do we do next? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is research work on damagelimitation, in giving government options or formulating policy, clearly it is an indefinite science. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They must pursue the twin goals of transparency and accountability rather than the regressive goal of damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, regrettably, damagelimitation is all that has been possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is an exercise in damagelimitation, not restoration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Damagelimitation is pragmatic and based on reality, whereas abstinence is a moral programme which does not work. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It was a damagelimitation exercise, attempting to give some reassurance to exporters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is essentially an exercise in damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been slow to get to grips with this and now is forced to engage in damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At best that seems to be a damagelimitation exercise and at worst something of a begging bowl. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we are now engaged in or should be engaged in is a damagelimitation exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that it is a damagelimitation exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One cannot regard them as anything better than an exercise in damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are conscious of the fact that it is not a question of looking to do damage or of damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not surprisingly, they looked again for ways to pre-empt, and engage in damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While damagelimitation is to be welcomed, is it not really preferable to try to avoid causing the damage? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of openness and transparency, the scheme exudes an atmosphere of damagelimitation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English As we all want enlargement, we are faced with the problem of retrospective damagelimitation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Immediately after the clean-up, after the damagelimitation, we need to work together to rectify these mistakes. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Damagelimitation and compensation must not be our aim; our paramount goal must be to prevent damage to people's health and property. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Let us also counter the arguments that can and will be advanced about the necessary action of mitigation and damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both so-called victories are an important exercise in damagelimitation, because discrimination remains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Alternatively one could be complimentary and describe them as a "damagelimitation exercise". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We might perhaps call them damagelimitation proposals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now have an exercise in attempted damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must now be some damagelimitation, and some undoing of that damage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This amounts to a defensive attitude, to damagelimitation, whereas what we need is a fresh approach, innovation and quality. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Every measure was too slow, and we have embarked on a damagelimitation exercise to restore public confidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am certain that that evidence was deliberately tampered with as a damagelimitation exercise, to protect the police's reputation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, it would be a means of damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not in terms of cash, but it is in terms of damagelimitation and resource conservation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The set-aside proposals are no more than damagelimitation measures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, surely it is better not to engage in damagelimitation—valuable though it is—but in obviating the cause of the damage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall say more about that later because prevention will clearly always be better than damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This principle is called damagelimitation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The negotiated compromise, however, is also damagelimitation, because the planned period of grace should now be understood as nothing more than an invitation to do nothing. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It also recognises that where reform is appropriate, this must be addressed as a matter of timely policy rather than a damagelimitation exercise in the face of events. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is no more than damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, my new clause would at least be a damagelimitation exercise in that it would be of considerable benefit to many people on low incomes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is not, by the time they reach middle school it is sometimes too late, and by the time they reach high school it is a damagelimitation exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he aware that most of those who are involved in the industry—both wholesale and retail—consider that it will be an exercise of damagelimitation and not a boost? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is basically a damagelimitation measure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was an attempt at damagelimitation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now face a damagelimitation operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other than stability, arms control comes with cost reduction and damagelimitation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Seed merchants could not rely on damagelimitation clause to just the cost of the seeds. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A specialist forensic examination into the nature and extent of the attack is performed as a damagelimitation exercise. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was very impressed by the excellent shaped-charge protection combined with the penetrator impact damagelimitation, inherent to the principle of using tiles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In contrast, passive safety products are aimed at damagelimitation after an accident has occurred. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Margesson was instrumental in heading off many of these rebellions and performing damagelimitation upon others. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. From the first, it has been my view that we have been involved in a great damagelimitation exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Public ownership meant that management was limited to damagelimitation and political pressure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Flood risk assessment and management should be the basis of long-term plans for engineering works, information systems and other means of flood damagelimitation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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