Sentence examples for excuse itself from inspiring English sources

The musical tries to excuse itself as a fairy tale.

There is no reason why any arts building in the country should excuse itself.

The falling bomb does not excuse itself as "just a difference of interpretation".

The show then had the good sense to excuse itself when the time was right, bowing out after 17 strong episodes.

The state even tried to excuse itself from financial obligations for the results of segregation, only to be rebuffed, again, by the Supreme Court today.

"How does the church excuse itself after all this?" Mariana Ribeiro, 26, a Brazilian who lives in California, said in St. Peter's Square while clergy in white, red and pink vestments marched in solemn procession.

It understands and sympathises with those ideas but it excuses itself from repeating them.

Last week the Federal Reserve excused itself from venturing any forecast about the United States economy pending the abatement of "geopolitical uncertainties".

Such criticism, she writes, "excuses itself by protesting that it is a pity to waste fierceness on things that do not matter.

When the city becomes a landlord, it excuses itself from paying taxes or sewer and water charges, yet it still loses $200 a month on the average apartment.

When the prediction proved wildly wrong, the government excused itself with a classic Rumsfeld-ism: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence".