Sentence examples for excuse of it from inspiring English sources

So, given the excuse of "it would've passed anyway," I foresee a whole bunch of Republicans getting on board at the last minute, eager to be perceived as being on the right side of history.

I believe Islam is based on reason: unless you have done everything you can within your means to actively avoid a bad situation, you cannot use the excuse of it being God's will.

Pettitte conceded that the team, which has been held to seven runs in three games against Texas, was in a hitting slump, but said he did not want to make too much of an excuse of it because the hitters had supported the pitchers well for most of the season.

Yet this excuse of it being an abstract problem only goes so far to explain the problem.

Like a sort of Fabian Society Jeremy Clarkson, his excuse of "It was a bloody joke, OK?" rapidly gets drowned out by people asking him if he thinks that sort of joke is funny.

Of eschewing language to offer excuse; of calling it a phobia when it is nothing but hate.

"I could excuse it, to some degree—I won't but I could excuse some of it by saying that I was trying to, in some ways, accomplish what Jon Stewart can accomplish: draw huge crowds, make points and then encourage you to do your own homework," he told the New York Times.

Now I realize that democratic governance might seem a rather odd notion to an Administration that assumed office under a dark cloud of suspicion and in any case did not secure the majority of votes from the populace, but that does not excuse ignorance of it.

Aside from no longer having to justify celebrating Christmas with tedious excuses of the "it's actually a pagan winter holiday, you know" variety, there would be no more angst about what's right and what's wrong, and all backed up by the delicious glow of sanctimony on which religion acts like oxygen on fire.

I know the awful things my brothers have done and have never excused any of it.

"It cannot be an excuse of saying, 'O.K., it's my learning year,"' he said.