Sentence examples for a ready excuse for from inspiring English sources

Widespread poverty has provided a ready excuse for governments dependent on income from resources.

Tyler, surprisingly, said he had yet to "hukk," but had a ready excuse for not using the site.

Indeed, according to Christopher MacLehose, publisher at Harvill Press for 21 years, mainstream publishers have a ready excuse for ignoring literature from around the world.

The open borders provide politicians and senior law-enforcement officials of the three nations with a ready excuse for the presence of terrorists in cities under their nominal control.

For those lucky enough to put up at Lake Palace, there is a ready excuse for enforced idleness, since the only way to reach the hotel or leave it is by boat.

In her neo-screwball world of dizzy dames and the heartbreakers who do and done them wrong, love is a drug, an escape, an ordeal and a ready excuse for a lot of chatter.

Until then, Mr. Bush will cling stubbornly to the half-century-old economic embargo that has failed to unseat Mr. Castro while giving him an ever ready excuse for his government's economic failings and repression.

He has an (overly) ready excuse for where he was at the time of Morten's murder and a penchant for sadistic games – he makes the infuriatingly hapless Marc play Russian roulette to win extra days to find 78,000 kroner Marc owes him (for what is unclear, though what is clear is that Marc should quit trying to win it at poker).

He has a ready excuse.

There is always a ready excuse.

Rushing by, a half-dozen women had a ready excuse.