Sentence examples for foul excuse from inspiring English sources

If the SEC already allowed Goldman Sachs to escape with a "no harm, no foul" excuse, it makes no sense to go after a relatively junior former Goldman Sachs employee and accuse him of harming investors.

Election fraud and a loser crying foul are classic excuses in Nigeria for military intervention.

Honorable Mention: Let's look past Lebron's protective goggle mask from last month; this fashion foul can be excused because the man was playing basketball with a broken nose, after all.

Nope — that's a foul, and they have no excuse for it.

He might not lightly wear the excuse that the foul that put his boy in hospital was born of tiredness... because Burdisso was another of those players who made that long midweek flight to Buenos Aires.

Sometimes the stink of a wound was so foul that she had to excuse herself and walk away so the patient or the family wouldn't see her gagging.

Instead of showing remorse, he excused his technical foul by saying that he was not talking to the referee.

The Hull coach, Lee Radford, openly admitted this week the 16-0 defeat by Wigan was the "epitome of not handling the occasion properly" – but if one player could be excused for falling foul of that, it is the FC full-back Jamie Shaul.

Mohammad Taqi, a liberal Pakistani columnist, writing in the Lahore-based Daily Times on Sept. 20, argued that "there is absolutely no excuse for violence and indeed murder most foul, as committed in Benghazi.

"He had foul trouble, a lot of things that could be an excuse for him not to find a way to impact the game in the second half.

"The regulations state specifically, that being unaware that the dog has fouled, or not having a suitable means of removing the faeces is not a reasonable excuse for failing to clean up after your dog".