Sentence examples for amount of excuses from inspiring English sources

No amount of excuses can absolve the Knicks of the horrible basketball crimes they committed tonight.

Security Minister Ben Wallace responded angrily, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We have to be unequivocal that no amount of excuses, no amount of twisted reasoning about a foreign policy here, a foreign policy there, can be an excuse.

Some arguments make sense; others amount to the sort of excuses generally related from a therapist's couch.

Although he adds "no amount of temptation can excuse rape" he goes on to say "for some it is heresy to suggest that victims should ever be held responsible at all".

Nothing becomes a substitute for paying agreed amount of bills — those are excuses to get out of paying a fair share.

No amount of special pleading can excuse virulent homophobia, but the truth may be that it says much more about homophobes than homosexuals.

"There's no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child".

"Possibly that is down to inexperience within the squad but you cannot excuse the amount of dropped balls we came up with tonight, the amount of cheap penalties we conceded and how we finished our sets, especially in the second half".

No amount of retrospective moral gymnastics can excuse or contextualise that.

She would later report that for two and a half hours, Cook raped her, with and without a condom, at one point choking her until she began to lose her vision, slapping her, and telling her that since he (eventually) put on a small amount of lube, she had "no excuse" for crying out in agony.

Religions cannot escape the truth that no claims of conversions or souls saved will excuse the vast amount of blood shed in the name of gods.