Sentence examples for constitute an excuse from inspiring English sources

The renovation prudently extends by a third the architecture of grand galleries from the existing building, adds another entrance, which is practical, and also adds space for special exhibitions, where an inaugural show of Victorian nudes goes just barely beyond mere comic titillation to constitute an excuse for enticing visitors to ogle pale young naked women with gravity-defying breasts.

These long-term trends bode well, but do not constitute an excuse for complacency.

With this backdrop, we consider Mishara's contention that a labor dispute which makes performance more difficult never constitutes an excuse for nonperformance.

No one protests in empty places; and if hobos and dealers contribute to make the area still more uninhabitable, it will constitute a good additional excuse for a real estate company to decide its redevelopment someday (in the same way as the Renaissance Center wants to do for the Downtown, serving as a point of attraction for tourists and casino gamblers).

Weirdly, she thought this constituted a relatable excuse rather than a revelation of her actual attitudes.

Collectively, they constitute an emergency.

But in Abu Dhabi the stewards said that they "did not accept that the incident referred to constituted an accident or excused failing the relevant test".

It found that "a mere mental disease or defect, though it may constitute a form of insanity known to and recognized by medical science, does not excuse one for committing a crime".

Two objects constitute a pair.

does not constitute a summary.

Ignorance cannot be an excuse.