Sentence examples for flimsy excuse for from inspiring English sources

He immediately saw this as a flimsy excuse for shopping, and he was partly right.

At this point, however, it would be a flimsy excuse for West Ham to argue that anyone would experience these teething problems after moving grounds.

Most Lebanese, however patriotic, see these few hundred acres of orchards as a flimsy excuse for exposing their country to Israel's wrath, especially since the United Nations has decreed that the area is Syrian, not Lebanese.

His ax falls on trade shows ("they're just a flimsy excuse for a paid vacation"), sweat equity ("I call it working for nothing and being a fool") and teamwork ("vastly overrated").

The past six years of speeding up traffic, keeping the congestion charge too low, and a flimsy excuse for a cycling and walking revolution, will mean a worse London for all of us, including from air pollution".

Neurotic, self-centered and hopelessly immature, this flimsy excuse for a heroine is otherwise occupied flouncing about inside her gilded cage: taking lovers, taking meds and getting into tiffs with the man of the house, Mauricio (Robert Bogue), and Mommy dearest (Saundra Santiago).

But these were, I suppose, flimsy excuses for putting off what I knew would someday be inevitable.

But Justice Antonin Scalia had no trouble rejecting such flimsy excuses for evading the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.

The problems of voting reform are not so much fundamental barriers to reform as convenient but flimsy excuses for inaction by Mr Bush and Congress.

Instead, he said, he had received "weak and flimsy" excuses for menthol's exemption from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a leading antismoking organization that agreed to the legislation.

Where are the demands for governments to stand up for human rights in Iran and stop hiding behind flimsy excuses for inactivity?