Sentence examples for excusing from inspiring English sources

I'm not excusing anything George Bush did in his politics, but I rate people on how I meet them.

I must say, it breaks my heart today, as a citizen of Northern Ireland, as a citizen of the United Kingdom, 95 people are holding letters excusing the murder of 200 people.

Many on the right want the term to apply only to people who openly treat other races as the enemy, while excusing the obvious and classically coded racial resentment that almost universally accompanies supposedly neutral, data-based claims of racial disparities.I think the term "racial prejudice" evades a lot of these pitfalls.

In one blunt speech, which the steely Ms Cheney repeated in Jordan, he has said that America made a mistake in having spent 60 years excusing the lack of freedom in the Middle East.The Arab authoritarians on whose behalf those excuses were once made can only feel chilled by such remarks.

Without excusing the abuse, the women assume that it had something to do with their menfolk's sense of frustration at the poor hand life had dealt them.

Nor does a belief in trying, in the right conditions, to talk killers into changing their ways amount to excusing their crimes.The regional government does not in fact excuse these crimes: its head not Mr Arzalluz, but Juan Jose Ibarretxe leads marches of protest against them.

Another historian, Heinrich August Winkler, has attacked the Russlandversteher for standing in a long and nasty tradition of Russo-German co-operation (most egregiously seen in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939), given that what they are excusing in Mr Putin is a mixture of neo-tsarist aggression and ethnic nationalism.

When one says this, is one somehow excusing violent anti-Kurdish bigotry, or condoning the attack on that Kurdish community centre?

BP denies gross negligence, which would greatly increase the fines that it faces as well as excusing its partners from having to contribute.This is one of the aspects of the disaster that is going to take an extremely long time to settle.

But as Somalia collapsed, he fled abroad aged only 13.More recently he has stirred controversy by partially excusing the activities of Somalia's pirates.

I'm not excusing this in any way, but they take a local custom of abducting women into marriage and play upon it.