Sentence examples for excuse for pursuing from inspiring English sources

Many former supporters worry that Mr Obama is treating the economic crisis rather as George Bush treated September 11th as a convenient excuse for pursuing a long-held ideological agenda.Anger seethes about the fact that so many big-government Democrats mysteriously lose their appetite for taxes when it comes to paying them themselves.

The excuses companies offer for pursuing aggressive tax-avoidance activity always include claims that they are acting in the interests of their shareholders.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

The degree to which the unemployment crisis is structural, as opposed to cyclical, is hotly debated by economists, with progressives like Paul Krugman arguing that structural unemployment is a fake problem "which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions".

An optional reason for pursuing ordination.

The Fed dissenters are obviously looking for excuses to pursue tight policies; they're looking at the facts only in search of support for their prejudices.

But its compact size provided an excuse to pursue Ms. Long's shophouse fantasy.

But that is no excuse for failing to also pursue this peaceful and more permanent solution to our nuclear dilemma with the same zeal that we bring to the pursuit of war.

Testifying for the defense, attorney David Irwin said there was no excuse for Gutierrez to not vigorously pursue any credible alibi witness, let alone Asia Chapman, whom he viewed as a "fabulous witness" and "powerfully credible".

Those who offer no such excuse should be pursued, and, if necessary, prosecuted.

Indeed, many countries are quite happy to find any excuse not to pursue it.