Sentence examples for an excuse which from inspiring English sources

He's giving me an excuse, which is generous of him.

But New Delhi dismisses Pakistan's messy internal problems as an excuse which Islamabad invokes to justify its inaction against Islamist terrorists based on its soil.

But Geneva's chief prosecutor, Olivier Jornot, cautioned that the bank was on notice, saying: "This is an excuse which will only apply once".

In the experienced hands of Mr Davis's spinners, the explanation was soon remoulded to look like an excuse, which had to mean there was something to hide.The records, when eventually released after months of prevarication, revealed no sordid secrets.

Not too many of Chelsea's beaten opponents this season have been able to reach for such an excuse, which was of course still another tribute to the man who had been given the job of picking up the pieces.

"It led to the war In Iraq, they used [9/11] as an excuse, which made me pretty cynical," he said.

Tower Hamlets managed an intricate, multi-layered excuse which said it was too complicated, and anyway they publish their own (impenetrable) data, and then finally that they'd had a think, and decided it wasn't in the public interest to answer the FOI.

Tower Hamlets managed an intricate, multi-layered excuse which said it was too complicated, and anyway they publish their own (impenetrable) data, and then finally that they thought about it, and decided it wasn't in the public interest to answer the FOI.

My excuse, which was not a good excuse, was that I was on a yellow card from my wife.

QUESTION FROM TONY F.: The get over it excuse, which Scalia puts forth, is that almost an admission that it was political, rather than a legal reasoning?

"Google may use politics as its excuse, which is easy for Westerners to accept, but in essence this is just a business failure," he said in an interview.