Sentence examples for Adequate excuses from inspiring English sources

These are reasonable concerns, but they are not adequate excuses for remaining paralysed in a cycle of storytelling that is neither accurate nor engaging.

"Generally blaming the civil service for inadequate delivery is not an adequate excuse.

But it is not an adequate excuse for the disaster that engulfed us.

If it's another five or six million, that's not an adequate excuse".

"Making a hit isn't everything," he declares, as if that is an adequate excuse for abandoning coherence.

None of these explanations is an adequate excuse for the ECB's opposition to deep involuntary restructuring of Greece's debt.

According to sources at City, the officials who conducted his test made it clear they would not accept Ramadan, which lasts throughout the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, as an adequate excuse.

First among Mr. Holt's many resources is his wife, who has been an effective at-home therapist — in part, paradoxically, because she does not consider mental illness an adequate excuse to shirk responsibilities.

"There is simply no adequate excuse for a misrepresentation of this kind, and thus I offer none," Zarrella said in a letter to Bausch & Lomb's board.

The rigors of the passage around Cape Horn commonly gave adequate excuse for ships to stop at Valparaiso or Callao for repairs and for replenishment of water and provisions; once in port, it was not difficult to engage in contraband trade without official Spanish notice.

In such cases, ignorance is anything but an adequate excuse.