The war seemed as unending as the excuses of Western leaders for their inaction.
From that moment, all the excuses of Wembley's poor surface's inhibiting ground skills, were forgotten.
As he told interviewers afterward, he had a reputation for accepting no absence excuses of any kind.
The pathetic excuses of Olympian also-rans become the "OFFICIAL PATHETIC ALIBI OF THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES".
But as Guardiola envisaged, his team did not make excuses of fatigue and distraction after last week's national team duties.
The end result will be real international leadership, removing the excuses of other nations not to act.
Are the old excuses of national security and international relations being used to hide personal and national embarrassment?
The slaughter at Qana lays the excuses of Israel and her spin-doctors and apologists in bloody, decisive ruin.
Either option is likely to please shareholders and, bar the usual excuses of hot/cold weather hitting sales, Greggs the Baker's future looks far from taxing.
If the attack on Nemeth had happened on the street, outside of Nemeth's apartment, then nobody would care about the pathetic excuses of her attacker.
After a year and a half of excuses, of letting my husband drive, I could no longer put off trying to confront my own demons.
