Sentence examples for excuse given by from inspiring English sources

But Bruce criticised what he described as the "lame excuse" given by DfID for its decision to contribute the money.

It was a line reminiscent of the "one rogue reporter" excuse given by Rupert Murdoch's News International when it was accused of industrial-scale phone hacking.

There are days when I feel like Reggie Perrin as I reel off the latest excuse given by the rail company for being late.

"The excuse given by the Saudi government is that there's not enough accommodation, but do you really need to be so close to the Grand Mosque and the House of Allah?

The day's most tilted coverage may have come from Brian Williams on MSNBC, who said that "it is feared this photograph will have an incendiary effect," and that "the excuse given by the federal government for the armaments" was that they had information that guns may have been in the house.

That opinion overruled the excuse given by the Feds for failure to proceed with the production of statistical data and other evidence of blatant racial discrimination alleged to be blocking advancements for African Americans for over 30 years.

Surrey Police and Surrey County Council have released details of the excuses given by drivers as part of a campaign targeting the use of mobile phones while behind the wheel.

These were among the excuses given by British officials following General Gordon's disastrous foray into the Sudan against the Mahdi Army in 1884-85, which ended, as legend has it, with his simultaneous puncturing by the spears of four dervishes.

Bell said excuses given by some officers that they were unable to perform the regular cell checks or answer when Dhu pressed the intercom in her cell because they were attending other duties should not have arisen.

One of the country's leading prosecutors has defended the stiff sentences handed out to hundreds of rioters in London last summer and derided the excuses given by some of them in court.

A series of text-message jokes imagine the excuses given by Mumbai's elite for not voting: "No valet parking at polling booth" is one; "Spotted servant in queue ahead of us" another.