Sentence examples for could not excuse from inspiring English sources

But he insisted that cuts to the size of his department could not excuse the failings in the bidding process.

She said she understood the economic pressures facing some farmers, but could not excuse people who want drilling on their land.

But their nastiness could not excuse Mr. Clinton's lying under oath, as in his plea agreement with Mr. Starr's successor, Robert Ray, he has now admitted he did.

The mayor of Rendsburg, where the base is situated, invited Mr. Carri o visit, saying that he could not excuse the two soldiers but that most of the troops there were "open-minded and tolerant".

Nevertheless, although the Buyer could not excuse the letter by any undisclosed practice or intent of its own, and although judged by itself it might have constituted an "intimation" of acceptance, we think that, when it is read with what had passed between the parties before it was written, it is not susceptible of that understanding.

A local official talked of a "social earthquake".Shaking Chileans' image of themselves as a law-abiding people, the pillaging affected not only supermarkets but also department stores, with looters taking things, such as plasma televisions, that hunger or cold could not excuse.

He told me that he was recently consulting with a bank when a lawyer in the room said, "With that exception, I'd be embarrassed if I couldn't excuse a trade".

But, held, further, that at all events it appeared on the pleadings that the plaintiffs had delivered something to the defendant, on the faith of his promise, which he at the time considered valuable, and this being so, and no fraud imputed, he could not afterwards excuse a breach of the promise, by alleging that the thing given up was not of the value he had supposed.

Theis: Impossible, she could not play "excuse me".

Shorten said that the terrorist attack was "an evil terrible tragedy" and while there was "no doubt an element of mental illness", that factor could help explain but not excuse the incident.

The 400,000 deaths a year attributed to cigarette smoke for the last 50 years could not be excused away, he said.