Sentence examples for alibi for inaction from inspiring English sources

Brown, then, may have been something worse than useless: an alibi for inaction.

While the scientific majority acknowledges that the lingering uncertainty about clouds plays into the hands of skeptics like Dr. Lindzen, they say that he has gone beyond any reasonable reading of the evidence to provide a dangerous alibi for inaction.

It also turned out to be a marvellous alibi for inaction....A great many things shifted Clinton's point of view: the appalling massacres at Srebrenica; the ultimate success of foreign intervention in Bosnia; the rise of a more assertive government in London.

Robert D. Kaplan's "Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History" portrayed many centuries of  irreconcilable ethnic enmity and gave the impression of a morass that would swallow up any country that intervened there; David Remnick of the New Yorker called it a "marvelous alibi for inaction".

5) Inaction is inexcusable There is no excuse for inaction.

Nor is it an excuse for inaction.

But that's no excuse for inaction.

Unease is no excuse for inaction.

But not if it becomes an excuse for inaction.

"There's no excuse for inaction," Mr. Obama said.

"But that can't be an excuse for inaction".