Sentence examples for The excuse of from inspiring English sources

The excuse of upcoming European parliamentary elections is feeble.

The excuse of being 'too busy' to volunteer just doesn't cut it any more.

The excuse of cutting into class attendance is just that, an excuse, and a poor one.

"The excuse of the string was used to appease the conservative religious constituency," said Najam Sethi, a veteran political commentator.

"The excuse of fighting corruption helps legitimise purges," says Jiangnan Zhu at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The excuse of "social consensus" is too often used in flabby defence of the now unaffordable status quo.

They use the excuse of collateral damage".

We don't have the excuse of ignorance.

And that's without the excuse of hosting the Olympics.

Even with the excuse of the 1980s, it was ghastly.

Galton, at least, had the excuse of historical innocence.