Sentence examples for excuses given from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the excuses given for keeping quiet are as important as the facts of a case.

Excuses given to health professionals by Shuttleworth after incidents of abuse, including a radiator burn to his foot, were not credible, the review found.

Surrey Police and Surrey County Council have released details of the excuses given by drivers as part of a campaign targeting the use of mobile phones while behind the wheel.

There were excuses given that Katie Archibald – who crashed while riding her motorbike in the rain and damaged a knee ligament – missed the event, but Rowsell Shand believes that failure will spur the team on for Rio.

A series of text-message jokes imagine the excuses given by Mumbai's elite for not voting: "No valet parking at polling booth" is one; "Spotted servant in queue ahead of us" another.

These were among the excuses given by British officials following General Gordon's disastrous foray into the Sudan against the Mahdi Army in 1884-85, which ended, as legend has it, with his simultaneous puncturing by the spears of four dervishes.

But these familiar excuses give a distorted idea of how Catholic schools operate.

And as predicted here months ago, she has a built-in excuse, given above.

"It's partly youth, and that's often the excuse given for it.

The excuse given for impotence is now that the US has toughened its criteria for removal.

But Bruce criticised what he described as the "lame excuse" given by DfID for its decision to contribute the money.