Sentence examples for by excuses from inspiring English sources

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.

Much of this racism simmers beneath the surface, hidden by excuses and subterfuge.

Fault liability is not defeasible by excuses that establish the absence of culpability.

If we conceived similarly of strict liability in tort, we would then understand fault liability, incorrectly, as liability that is defeasible by excuses that establish the absence of culpability, in other words, as liability (only) for one's culpable conduct.

Worry is anxiety backed up by excuses invented by the mind.

But I can see many people being offended by being strung along by excuses like, "Oh shoot, I have something else that night, but tell me when you're having your next event".

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.

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.

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".