Sentence examples for adequate excuse from inspiring English sources

"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".

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

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

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.

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

A breach of contract occurs when one party fails to uphold his side of the contract without an adequate legal excuse.

Enough excuses.

In our view, the trial court had a sufficient basis for concluding that petitioner intentionally, and without 'adequate excuse,' defied the court.

Petitioner contends that his testimony that he attempted, in good faith, to comply with the subpoenas disproves the existence of any wilful default, and presents an 'adequate excuse' for his failure to comply under Rule 17(g), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.