Sentence examples for by excuse from inspiring English sources

Sept. 11 should remain singularly remarkable -- for the lives lost, the geopolitical foundations shaken, how this administration "exploited the terrorism issue for political ends" and the subsequent effects of war by excuse rather than reason.

While the US initiatives are groundbreaking and, if current polling holds up, may well be the first real cracks in the edifice of global prohibition, they are, like most reforms, being led by (excuse the pun) grassroots campaigns.

And there's nothing to prevent the ghosts, say, from asking passers-by, "Excuse me, have you seen Pac-Man?" The result is a kind of tableau of digital convergence with the physical world, in which humans are game pieces that are monitored and guided over digital networks.

If you are part of a group who is talking when the boss walks by, discreetly excuse yourself to return to your area after a few seconds.

There are flickers of apparently real pro-gay feeling, but they are soon followed by excuse-making for some of the most anti-gay politicians in Europe.

By excusing certain people, we seem to be invoking the opposite principle: suffering geniuses gladly.

But by excusing all this crap, surely we're perpetuating it; we're complicit.

Every effort to dig the nation out of the unemployment abyss "is being stymied by excuses about the deficit," said Richard L. Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

DiIulio accuses his critics of "defining criminality down," or turning criminals into victims by excusing their behavior because of past hardships.

Columnist Stephen Glover seeks to put the knife in once more by excusing Saturday's headline, "The man who hated Britain", as an "interpretation of the facts".

But even without a shift in policing strategy, there's one straightforward fix we can make: treat criminal cases more like civil cases by excusing defendants from appearing in court until the prosecution is actually ready to try them.