Sentence examples for excuse for assuming from inspiring English sources
His grenade is marked withJapanese characters, "which obviously," says the Shanghai dispatch, "was an attempt on the part of the Chinese to make it appear the Japanese themselves were instigating acts of violence in order to given an excuse for assuming control of the International Settlement.
This doesn't mean that you have to like individuals; naturally, there will always be people you don't click with and people whose moral habits are not in line with human dignity but these exceptions are not an excuse for assuming the majority of human beings are not lovable.
Fans can be excused for assuming that something called the World Golf Ranking simply tries to rank the world's best golfers by their performance.
Americans who don't generally pay attention to court decisions, but who tuned in for the health-care ruling, would therefore be excused for assuming that Chief Justice Roberts is no longer an arch-conservative but a centrist who's pulled the court to an ideological middle-ground.
AH Dorset The wording of the original letter is very opaque, especially since "This is not a penalty charge notice" is written in capitals across the middle, so you can be excused for assuming that you had nothing left to pay.
True, if you listen to some apologists touting collegiate multiculturalism, you could be excused for assuming that any college was just about the most cosmopolitan place on earth.
When they first told their friends they were getting hitched, most people, including myself, assumed it was a joke or just an excuse for a party.
That's particularly true of girls and math, apparently because some girls assume that they are genetically disadvantaged at numbers; deprived of an excuse for failure, they excel.
IT is easy to assume, given recent history, that all financial innovations are a mistake, an excuse for smart bankers to rip off foolish clients.
An excuse for imperialism.
