Sentence examples for excuse to launch from inspiring English sources

Some hardliners are looking for any excuse to launch a crackdown or even a coup.

They wondered whether North Korea might use the current tensions as an excuse to launch them.

Whatever the truth, Mr Suharto used it as an excuse to launch a bloody crackdown on communists, Sukarno supporters and anyone else in his way.

When one party appealed for aid to the governor of Gujarat, Akbar had an excuse to launch the campaign he had already been planning.

I was concerned that the teachers might use any sustained lull as an excuse to launch an exploration of the subjunctive.

Plans for both the Hamas leaders' arrests and the army's incursion were, it has emerged, laid well in advance, suggesting that Israel used the kidnapping as an excuse to launch them.

It accused the West of "inventing" excuses to launch a strike.

Syria has accused the West of "inventing" excuses to launch a strike.

Syria has accused the West of "inventing" excuses to launch a strike and says a UK strike would be an "aggressive and unprovoked act of war".

Others argue that Israel "engineered eve-of-war lies and deceptions.... to give Israel the excuse needed to launch its strike", such as presenting a group of "captured fedayeen" to journalists, who were in fact Israeli soldiers.

The reason - our words and actions continue to bring us closer and closer to a trip wire action that could provide the administration the excuse they need to launch the bombers.