Sentence examples for excuse for delaying from inspiring English sources

Uncertainty is sometimes interpreted as an excuse for delaying action.

First, the economic recession is no excuse for delaying action to address climate change.

The report rightly notes that air capture cannot reduce atmospheric concentrations rapidly, and thus provides no excuse for delaying action against climate change.

That could all be easily done in the next few months and must not be an excuse for delaying approval of the recommendations.

The key, he said, is to use digital technology as a tool, not as a substitute for planning or an excuse for delaying creative decisions.

Yet the Bush administration, through the Food and Drug Administration, found excuse after excuse for delaying a decision and narrowing its ultimate scope, presumably to placate Mr. Bush's base of social and religious conservatives.

Too many aid agencies have accepted feeble excuses for delaying mandatory primary education.

It got more excuses for delaying serious decisions for many more months, keeping the war going into 2008 and probably well beyond.

Hari argues that as environmental groups began to reach out to polluters, handing them awards for green behavior and accepting support from their deep pockets, they learned to compromise too readily and accept political excuses for delaying action on climate change.

There is no excuse for delay.

But this cannot be another excuse for delay or obstruction.