Sentence examples for failed to excuse from inspiring English sources

The trial judge failed to conduct a voir dire sufficient to impanel an unbiased jury and improperly failed to excuse several jurors for cause.

"The government's reaction utterly fails to explain, deny or excuse the allegations," Mr. Jenkin said.

Fromstein's excuses also fail to explain why Manpower lost its international first-place position to Adecco.

(Many white Dutch use this just-so story to excuse the character's skin colour, though it fails to explain his curly hair and thick, bright-red lips).

Our driver failed to turn up: "Bad excuses are worse than none" (Fuller).

The Fountain Scene in Act I introduced a Lucia who went about her business with such apparent ease that the audience could have been excused had they failed to recognise the extent of her technical achievement.

It never made sense to expect equal results to come from testing and competition unless educational dysfunction was due to identifiable villains, such as teachers who offered "Excuses!" and failed to demand "High Expectations!" Presumably, reformers believed that complex systems across the entire, diverse nation were being derailed by "bad teachers," protected by bad unions.

Manager Michael Laudrup insisted his side's heavily disrupted journey would not be used as an excuse if they failed to qualify for the last 32.

In a six-page decision rejecting a request from alternative schools for exemption from the Regents exams, Mr. Mills said that the schools could not be excused because advocates had failed to present evidence that portfolios were a valid substitute for the test.

Mr Thaksin's supposed disrespect for the king was yet another of the coupmakers' excuses, though they failed to produce any evidence of it.

Mr Obama had the excuse that the Iraqis failed to sign a status-of-forces agreement.