Sentence examples for excuse to defend from inspiring English sources

But they can also be no more than an excuse to defend a despotic regime and to close one's eyes in front of an ongoing massacre".

For decades, I have refused to make such excuses to defend President Nixon for his slurs about Jews on his tapes.

Populists do not try to square the simple desires of the electorate with the complex realities of society but pretend that what seems simple is simple and that anyone who says otherwise belongs to an obfuscating elite looking for excuses to defend its own interests.

Republicans have used nearly every excuse in the book to defend Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech, but one of the GOP's top strategists came up with a particularly creative explanation by way of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". .

I'm not going to defend or excuse that, and the person who made the illegal offer should be held responsible.

You don't have to defend yourself anymore, excuse yourself for being an entrepreneur.

As Jessica Walter explains through tears that she's never been treated in sixty years of working the way that Tambor treated her, her male costars (most notably Jason Bateman) went on to defend Tambor and excuse his behavior.

Okay, Mittens, go ahead, "As soon as we possibly can, consistent with the, uh... the word that comes from our generals that we can hand the country over to the Taliban military in a way that they are able to defend themselves... excuse me, it should be the Afghan military to defend themselves from the Taliban".

I can't excuse it and I'm not going to defend it.

The excuse given is that it is easier to defend a product patent--the gene--than the application.

Not taking everything personally, getting easily offended, or feeling the need to defend, prove, or make excuses for yourself.