Sentence examples for False excuses from inspiring English sources

This is a budget based on rewritten history and false excuses.

So do what you say you are going to do and do not make false excuses.

Those participants who stopped lying -- exaggerating their accomplishments, making false excuses for being late and evading uncomfortable questions -– had a significant improvement in their health.

"My husband and I both feel that what Cook County did is, once they found DNA, instead of pursuing [the suspect] Michael [Gargiulo], they made false excuses on why DNA was on her.

Giving false excuses may be misunderstood as an opportunity to convince you to go out with them.

In a statement released Sunday, he said Israel was trying "to find a false excuse to escalate the aggression against the Palestinians" and "to destroy the Egyptian efforts to improve the calm".

In this regard, some have suggested that academic dishonesty includes misrepresentation which includes providing a false excuse to gain an assignment extension or deferment of an exam (Whitley and Keith-Spiegel 2002).

SB 1 was instead chosen since it "saved more money," while legislators offered the false excuse of the state of Illinois not having enough money.

Even the certainty that some veterans' claims of reactivated war trauma are false does not excuse the failure to treat other veterans who are suffering.

The Oxford Dictionaries definition for "trump something up", in phrasal verb form, is "invent a false accusation or excuse".

No jargon, no excuses, no false promises: just a dad wondering, What's going on here?