Sentence examples for excuse will be from inspiring English sources
The teachers without legitimate excuse will be penalized a day's pay, the archdiocese said.
Next year, that excuse will be far less convincing, but the minority in the Senate will still probably be able to act as a roadblock.
No excuse will be tolerated by the N.F.L. since the league will give a number of warnings to players between now and the first day of testing.
Conspiracy theorists which includes most people here think the object is to force early elections or even create such chaos that an excuse will be found to impose an unelected government of technocrats, by the military and courts working together.
The same excuse will be cited inadequate security to hold elections with the army fighting in the north.S. W. RAJALondonUNreconstructedSIR—"Politics this week" (August 8th) mostly describes situations where minority groups based on ethnicity or religion are in conflict.
This time around, however, the built-in excuse will be: "Donald Trump upset the apple cart, so no real lessons can be drawn because it was such an abnormal election".
Only this time the excuses will be different.
No allowances are made, no respite is given and no excuses will be accepted.
If it fails, shoulders will be shrugged, excuses will be readied, fossil fuels will be burnt, and we will all suffer the consequences.
"There are no acceptable excuses for failing to pass immigration reform this year," Mr. Gutierrez said, "and no excuses will be accepted".
A lot of semi-plausible excuses will be trotted out: an incomplete census, a long rainy season, the lack of voter education.
