Sentence examples for compelling excuses from inspiring English sources
The same presentation also notes that providing compelling excuses for failing and meeting performance standards will initially be "equally important".
The last President to miss the dinner had a compelling excuse: Ronald Reagan, in 1981, had been shot just a few weeks earlier, and was recuperating at Camp David.
This philosophy offered me a very compelling excuse to avoid learning about the ways and means of money.
As fallible human beings we will never keep all our promises, but no matter how compelling our excuses may be for failing to deliver on time and on budget there is no excuse for not giving others a heads up.
David Cameron, the leader of Britain's opposition Conservative Party, did not mince his words in condemning the decision on February 15th to nationalise Northern Rock, a troubled mortgage bank.However unfairly, the symbolism of a British Labour government nationalising a bank is compelling, a gilt-edged excuse for Mr Brown's growing army of critics to pose all sorts of mischievous questions.
In November the company reported a bigger third-quarter loss than a year earlier, as its revenues continued their seemingly remorseless decline, to $52m.Ever since the internet made it easy for (still mostly) men to get hold of pornography without needing the excuse of compelling journalism to read, Playboy Enterprises has been desperately seeking an attractive new business model.
New research suggests that it's particularly ineffective to present more than three reasons, which dilutes the message -- and people can just choose the least compelling reason as an excuse not to give.
There is no excuse for compelling U.S. kindergarteners whose first experience with formal education is at age 5 to "compete" with peers in other Western countries who have enjoyed a high-quality, enriching early-childhood education.
Those excuses were never very compelling.
* Is there some other compelling reason requiring you to be excused?
