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That is a feeble excuse for their inaction to date.

"The-times-they-are-a-changin' is a feeble excuse for disregard of duty".

"The jury has today seen through this feeble excuse for his conduct and rightfully agreed with the prosecution that such behaviour is blatantly dishonest".

In a feeble excuse for his own mistakes and failures, he observed morosely, when the votes went against him, that there are times when the public mood changes, this was one of them, and the change was "for" Margaret Thatcher.

The club members volunteered as festival stewards and one of them was ill, so I took his identity and reported for work on the Friday, despite looking like a feeble excuse for a rugby player.

In a 2010 case deciding that a California police department did not violate an officer's privacy by auditing text messages sent on a city-issued pager, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that "The-times-they-are-a-changin' is a feeble excuse for disregard of duty".

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Too many aid agencies have accepted feeble excuses for delaying mandatory primary education.

The feeble excuses for keeping stolen or seized art treasures in former imperial capitals are becoming ever more feeble.

Only Uganda has so far sent peacekeepers, while other African countries make increasingly feeble excuses for their refusal to help out.

Rather than come up with the usual feeble excuses for not doing much before their session closes on June 23, New York's lawmakers can do what the real world does when we haven't finished the job: work overtime.

"That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man.

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