Sentence examples for excuses the need from inspiring English sources
He offered two excuses: the need for more time to judge any global actions on climate change before Australia goes ahead itself; and the opposition's "backflip" in parliament.The backflip may be just as much Mr Rudd's.
12. Making excuses: The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.
54 1 For some time past the Athenians had been covetous of Sicily because of the fertility of its land, p35 and so at the moment, gladly accepting the proposals of Gorgias, they voted to send an allied force to the Leontines, offering as their excuse the need and request of their kinsmen, whereas in fact they were eager to get possession of the island.
If your school is considered a premier Southern/Midwestern intellectual institution, it will probably have a lot of conservative (excuse the need for generalizing) Southern or Midwestern students who will be your peers and the people you live with for awhile.
They use excuses like the need to drive off-road once or twice a year, the need to cart around ski or soccer equipment or back trouble.
Because the French made a great revolution more than two centuries ago, they seem to believe that they're excused from the need to renovate and adapt today.
They produced similar excuses, mostly concerning the need to protect the privacy of their donors.
It may be legitimate, in these circumstances, to use excuses such as the need to review the patient's file or old films, the need to perform other examinations to define a probable abnormality, in agreement with the attending physician.
If we hold the belief that genius reveals itself only early in life, we excuse ourselves from the need to persevere.
But that is not an excuse for ignoring the need to measure impacts, in a program that uses scarce resources to help young people deal with their challenges.
