Sentence examples for excuse for breaking from inspiring English sources

There is no excuse for breaking the rules.

That is a lame excuse for breaking a promise.

"I omitted them because I thought that Nixon would use the release as an excuse for breaking off negotiations with North Vietnam," he said in an interview.

Although competing is not an excuse for breaking the fast, the department said, traveling was as long as the athletes do not remain in one place for longer than four days.

"Diminishing public funding and ever tighter commissioning practices are placing great pressure on care providers, but there is simply no excuse for breaking the law and HMRC urgently needs to get tougher on employers who do so," said Gardiner.

"It seems therefore that the FAI is using the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement as an excuse for breaking this longstanding policy.

Making excuses for breaking New Year's resolutions used to be a hell of a lot simpler.

"One of the all-time great excuses for breaking a date," King joked.

When 3-year-olds need to break away from a joint commitment with a partner, they even "take leave" through some form of implicit or explicit communication as a way of acknowledging and asking to be excused for breaking the commitment (Gräfenhain, Behne, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2009).

His spokesman said: "On the question of damage to his property, there can be no excuse for people breaking the law".

A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is currently in the United States, said "there could be no excuse for people breaking the law".