Sentence examples for desperate excuse from inspiring English sources

This is a version of the most desperate excuse my college friends attempted: "I'll reform them from within".

"This is the clearest sign yet that next week's autumn statement will be a damp squib and the government is using the strike as yet another desperate excuse.

"I suspect that the Garden Bridge Trust is using administrative tidiness as a desperate excuse to postpone publishing their accounts," said Caroline Pidgeon, who leads the Liberal Democrats in the Greater London assembly.

This is a version of the most desperate excuse my college friends attempted: "I'll reform them from within". This magical thinking betrays a profound misconception about the nature and purpose of such employers.

The defence that Marler acted in the heat of the moment was only marginally more absurd than the fact it took four deafeningly silent days to think up such a desperate excuse.

Kaufman was a master of a number of types of comic speech -- blustery patter, desperate excuse making, unwitting foolishness and the snide aside, to name a few -- and they are all in evidence in this play.

He will fool nobody with these increasingly desperate excuses," he said.

They denied any knowledge of Taliban activity, but, as Khan's aggressiveness and suspicion grew, they gave Vollick more and more desperate excuses for not coöperating — they were afraid, they said, and hadn't seen any insurgents anyway.

The temptation, when a great mistake has been made, is to seek ever more desperate excuses to sustain the mistake, rather than admit the terrible consequences of what you have done.

They denied any knowledge of Taliban activity, but, as Khan's aggressiveness and suspicion grew, they gave Vollick more and more desperate excuses for not coöperating they were afraid, they said, and hadn't seen any insurgents anyway.

But Labour's Ed Balls said Mr Osborne was making "desperate excuses" for the government's failure to deliver growth.