Sentence examples for be able to excuse from inspiring English sources

Trey Radel should not be able to excuse his cocaine use by pointing to his alcohol use; neither is any better or worse than the other.

If Mr. Perry's position were stronger in the other states, he might be able to excuse a poor finish in Iowa because of his late start, arguing that he was among the only nationally viable alternatives to Mr. Romney.

"The way I feel now, I would like to go beyond 2010, not much beyond, but you know, enough to go beyond," Mr. Letterman said, pointedly noting that "you always like to be able to excuse yourself on your own terms".

After dinner I hurriedly did the dishes, knowing I'd be able to excuse myself and go to bed afterward.

If this were just one such story of Pentagon waste, we might be able to excuse it as a mistake made in "the fog of war".

A man accountable only to himself might be able to excuse actions that can be corrected or amended if he is wrong, but when he is answerable only to himself, the temptation to weigh the lives of others and to deal out judgment as a God deciding the ultimate fate of victims, is too much.

But until the revelations about the extent of nazism at the heart of the institution, many music-lovers have been able to excuse the eccentricity of the Vienna Phil's traditions as the grit in the oyster that produces the orchestra's lustrous, pearlescent sound.

So I can repress the desire I have to check the phone while failing to engage in a conversation so I can be able to quickly excuse myself to go to the bathroom to check the phone?

What I hope, dare to hope, is that you might be able to understand — not excuse — the wrong and even evil steps which I took and which I must report, and that such an understanding might form the basis for a lasting dialogue".

But he said the prime minister should not be able to let it excuse him from taking part in the equivalent TV debates.

Proper planning, however, makes it less likely that you'll be able to find excuses to give up.