Sentence examples for a weak excuse for from inspiring English sources

That is now a weak excuse for a party with 63 MPs seeking equal status in a three-way election.

"That is a weak excuse for the failures of our school system, our government and our gun laws.

Unions generally blame apathy for student ignorance of their function, but that's seems a weak excuse for poor performance.

A special color scheme sounds like a weak excuse for a distinct model, but the Iridium Blue paint is so striking that passers-by stop for a second look.

Big corporations, by way of their mouthpieces, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Republicans, claim that they cannot hire as they whine about the "uncertainty" of the regulatory environment, a weak excuse for parking billions in profits on the sidelines.

In my view, that is a retreat: it will not serve the interests of animals in zoos and amounts to a weak excuse for what we should be doing as parliamentarians.

Like most partners, she initially didn't buy into the concept of sex addiction ("it sounded like a pretty weak excuse for an affair") and even when she did start to believe that her husband's behaviour was compulsive, her friends didn't ("they'd look at me in despair, asking since when had sexual desire became a monster that can't be controlled"), leaving her feeling isolated.

Is that why Abbott's explanation for sending her son private is seen as a weak excuse?

That's a weak excuse, a lame excuse".

Later, he added that referring to distractions was to make a weak excuse.

It seems a weak excuse as this was not just any gathering.