Sentence examples for excuse to refuse from inspiring English sources

We have a female prime minister again, so there is no cogent excuse to refuse.

Most of those making it are using it as an excuse to refuse, once again, to reach an accommodation with republicanism.

But it does not want to give Russia an excuse to refuse to embark on dialogue with Ukraine and the EU.

Palestinian terrorism has not, as you claim, "given the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, an excuse to refuse to negotiate a peace deal".

Bold-colored, cluttered rooms with art supplies, lots of books, jazz CDs and travel documents tended to belong to liberals (providing sloppy Democrats with an excuse to refuse clean up on principle).

Gus, who runs a hardware store, and his pregnant wife Karin (Emily Mortimer) constantly try to lure Lars to dine with them, but he always has some excuse to refuse social engagements.

The President kept asking me to dance, and I struggled for excuses to refuse.

If Hellas is gone, the pro-Grexit argument goes, then Germany would have fewer excuses to refuse to deploy its full economic might behind the rest of the euro zone.Such musings have been doing the rounds for some weeks.

His presence in the airports of Moscow or Havana, or in government housing in Caracas, will give American lawmakers the excuse they need to refuse any changes in the laws that have allowed domestic surveillance to go off the rails.

(The size of the Awl network's budget had obvious downsides. One enormous upside is that the editors had little excuse or inclination to refuse a random beginner his or her shot).

It should be noted that one of the specialists, who did not agree with this point of view, stressed that trust issues are no more than an excuse for physicians to refuse involving midwives in the process.