Sentence examples for excuse for postponing from inspiring English sources

There is no excuse for postponing it.

These are generational challenges, but that is no excuse for postponing them.

For years M.P.L.A. leaders have used the endless civil war as an excuse for postponing democracy and development.

This is an excuse for postponing and resisting reunification, as well as a scheme to deceive compatriots in Taiwan and world opinion...

Critics fear that, having so far failed to find a successor, Mr Karzai may engineer a political crisis to provide an excuse for postponing the vote.Mr Karzai should stop playing games.

The report condemns Mr. Lee's suggestion of waiting for democracy as "an excuse for postponing and resisting reunification," since China has offered to allow different political systems to coexist under the banner of one China.

Convinced that the military is reluctant to humiliate him further, many say prosecutors are looking for an excuse to postpone the trial.

What other diplomatic front can we now triumph on?" Fedor Lukyanov, a prominent pundit on international relations, told Interfax news agency Obama had been waiting for an excuse to postpone the attack.

* Does not include scores for postponed games.

But despite hybrids' high fuel economy, some environmentalists fear that the vehicles will be used as an excuse to postpone or eliminate California's requirement for zero-emission vehicles.

The risk is that Mr Chavez, like so many of his predecessors, will use a higher price for oil (which in 1997 accounted for 57% of government revenue) as an excuse to postpone reform.