Sentence examples for excuse for refusing from inspiring English sources

Not only do they provide a temporary excuse for refusing to answer questions, but they also move controversies into the legal realm.

Mr. Roosevelt's speech at Columbus, O., in which he advocated giving the people the right to nullify the decisions of Supreme Courts of various States on Constitutional questions, has given the Republicans opposed to him their excuse for refusing to support him for the nomination.

DUBLIN — The Irish government on Thursday demanded that the Vatican respond to the findings of a new report on child sexual abuse in Ireland and warned the Catholic Church that the seal of confession was not an excuse for refusing to provide information to the authorities on abuse cases.

Roger Federer says there is no excuse for refusing to take a drugs test and repeated his call for more testing.

Boes could have obediently jumped through the hoops as demanded of him by the government, playing the same game that thousands do, wasting a few hours or days filling out applications and going to interviews before being turned down or finding a plausible excuse for refusing the job.

Kraft's decision to move some of its operations to Switzerland to avoid tax, Merrill Lynch's move to Monaco, Barclay's sacking of a whistleblower unhappy with the bank's tax policy: these are all corporations using 'shareholder value' as the excuse for refusing to contribute real value to society.

Mr Kibaki may find excuses for refusing to give up one of his allies.

He was also faced with persistent calls to stop publishing topless pictures on Page 3 and offered disingenuous excuses for refusing to do so.

The agency's lame excuses for refusing to release the information must make any traveler wonder how bad the implications might be.

The Queen may have been excused for refusing such a request for dissolution on the grounds that it was being sought for personal gain, not for the benefit of the country.

There will never be any excuses for refusing to support basic principles of equality.