Sentence examples for excuse to act from inspiring English sources

I had a good excuse to act inappropriately.

"The fanatics in Iraq are using it as an excuse to act against the Christians," Bishop Warduni said.

"He is the lone individual who looks for persecutors under every rock and uses it as an excuse to act impolitely".

"We were doing it as an excuse to act up," Nina says of a teenage episode in a friend's basement, "and to express forbidden desires through sexual pantomime".

Another view: "As much as we are so willing to criticize the US for their bad behaviour," wrote Zhao Xiao, a professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing, on his microblog, "it doesn't give China the excuse to act more evil," the Post reported.

Ira Kay, the head of the compensation practice at Watson Wyatt, a consulting firm, says that although many boards have embraced the need for change, some executives are still resisting because they think the fuss over pay will soon blow over.Paid if you do, paid if you don'tThat may give governments an excuse to act.

Though the plot is little more than an excuse to move from act to act, the performances are invariably impressive.

For too long, others have used American inaction as an excuse not to act themselves.

It is also almost costless, so the government has no excuse not to act.

It gives us an excuse not to act as they did".

Central cuts have become an excuse not to act on anything, to have positive vision or to address residents' concerns.