Sentence examples for excuse for committing from inspiring English sources
"NATO bombardment cannot be an excuse for committing crimes".
Other countries, though, have no excuse for committing the same error.
But now there is no excuse for committing a privacy breach.
Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime.
In the modern world, following orders is never an excuse for committing a war crime; this excuse was done away with by the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis.
The general rule of thumb among psychiatrists and legal professionals alike is that mental illness is not an excuse for committing violent crime so much as a complication that potentially produces violent behaviour.
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".
"There were no circumstances for committing suicide.
No one is claiming PTSD as an "excuse" for someone who commits a non-violent crime, but it is a cause.
Some journalists were quick to jump on the apparent connection of the massacre to violent entertainment and Nazism, though one wrote, "Lyrically, the band has written some songs that could easily be misconstrued by anyone lacking an ear for irony and looking for an excuse to commit violence".
Mateen's lack of rigid ideology and his affection for terrorist groups that are at odds with one another suggest he was posturing or seeking an excuse to commit mass murder, experts said.
