Sentence examples for excuses based on from inspiring English sources

When you tell African-American college graduates not to make excuses based on their upbringing, you are telling them that a social critique of poverty is not legitimate.

When this model was undone, fighting was impelled by control of territory, rather than propagandistic excuses based on differences in religious observance or grievances in past wars and conquests.

It generates excuses based on the "bastard operator from hell".

Here I was, thinking, logically, I have a clear medical excuse based on your Doctor's advice, so clearly some of my absences would be excused, right?

Make an excuse based on technological malfunctions.

This is not a tactic to excuse violent behavior based on ones race; that's not an argument worth entertaining.

But that excuse is based on either not fully comprehending the economic realities of the world or, more importantly, not understanding the changes in the IMF structure that were included in the bill, or possibly both.

And when some professors at a City College teach-in claimed that American foreign policy was responsible for the attacks, Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of the City University, denounced "those who seek to justify or make lame excuses" with arguments "based on ideological or historical circumstances".

Thankfully, this fear is often an excuse and not based on real facts.

I've reflected on how sometimes the funniest people write the deepest things; we shouldn't write anyone off (excuse the pun), based on personality.

Furthermore, it fails to distinguish between the common appeals to excuses from obligatory action based on the particular difficulty or risk involved in its performance and the general exemption from supererogatory action that is sometimes easy and possible for everybody (like doing a small favor or showing forgiveness).