Sentence examples for inadequate excuse from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Greenspan himself seemed aware that he was on shaky ground, offering the very inadequate excuse that "I speak for myself and not necessarily for the Federal Reserve".

He did this with friendship with the four soldiers - he said he was breaking off because two of them were going to OCS school, but this was an inadequate excuse.

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And potent accusations of paedophilia are used with sickening regularity by inadequates as an excuse to beat, bully, maim and murder people with learning difficulties.

Dream or Redeem, you could argue that these N.B.A. Olympians have greater pressure to win than any recent predecessors because there is no fallback excuse about inadequate organization, lack of organization or malcontents gumming up the works.

Chauvin said fishermen see little money coming in because of tight supplies, and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility is using the excuse of inadequate paperwork to underpay or renege on payments to fishermen for losses from the BP spill.

Now that I have a beard, that excuse is transparently inadequate.

Michael Wara, a law professor at Stanford University, doesn't flunk the president, but in a "Your Dot" contribution offers a tough critique, as if facing a student who keeps making excuses for tardy inadequate work: You and I usually see eye to eye on the complex reality of climate change policy.

Our requests for data from the DEA are met with delay, excuses and, frankly, inadequate response," Walden said as he opened a committee hearing Wednesday.

"Nevertheless," she wrote, "while this is an explanation for inadequate reporting, it is not an excuse".

"Generally blaming the civil service for inadequate delivery is not an adequate excuse.

That was the same excuse offered for an inadequate response in BiH back then.

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