Sentence examples for began excuse from inspiring English sources

A snarky Berkeley professor's immediate response began: "Excuse me, she's anti-death penalty, but let the record show that her office condoned the illegal purchase of lethal injection drugs".

As the latest articles about the National Security Agency tell us, they have begun excusing their sins by claiming that the system they have created is now beyond even their understanding or control, so what hope do they have of understanding or controlling you?

Eventually, students now had a way to learn without attending lectures, they began to excuse themselves from lectures, meetings and moots altogether; in the early 17th century they developed a way of deputising other students to do their moots for them.

The red-eyed man just kept glaring, but the smiling one began muttering excuses.

He began inventing excuses to get out of his radio show, leaving his father alone on the air each morning to explain why Derek wouldn't be calling in.

After a few months, I began making excuses, and I quit going.

So the intercourse began with a rough start (excuse the pun) and he seemed to keep grabbing onto the wall alongside the bed for support.

Stanhope doesn't even begin to excuse his involvement.

And you can't even begin to excuse a bright, well-educated, Syrian Brit for colluding in her husband's regime's mass murder.

(The fact that most of these fetid pensées spring from a disembodied head of Orpheus, conjured by Fallok and often taking the form of a cabbage or a soccer ball, doesn't even begin to excuse them).

Gatland blamed the closed roof for a dewy surface that made handling difficult but it did not begin to excuse the poor handling and passing that wrecked many a move.