Sentence examples for familiar excuses from inspiring English sources

Earlier he had trotted out the familiar excuses.

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

I know that the familiar excuses – low turnout, midterm blues – aren't enough.

I have had this feeling of loss before, when change, trumpeted as progress, has swept away familiar excuses.

Everton shouldn't be a team struggling in 11th, and each time they slip up, Martinez rolls out the familiar excuses – Saturday saw time-wasting and spoiling tactics to blame – but Baggies manager Tony Pulis wasn't too far off the mark when he jibed that Martinez is failing with a "top-five squad".

Delegates and activists are pointing fingers at the Vatican, Iran and Russia for trying to eliminate language in a draft communiqué asserting that the familiar excuses — religion, custom, tradition — cannot be used by governments to duck their obligation to eliminate violence.

That's a familiar excuse, and in this case a threadbare one.

So persistence counts, and so does avoiding the familiar excuse of "I've tried everything".

He never relies on that old familiar excuse, "it's just a game".

For example, he claims that the familiar terrorist excuse that they had no alternative in the face of oppression is only "a pretence".

Always, though, the familiar reasons, or excuses, crop up – distance, money, lack of amenities.