Sentence examples for is the same excuse from inspiring English sources
"Personal preference," I recall, is the same excuse that was trotted out not long ago to explain why there were so few women lawyers, physicians and veterinarians.
That was the same excuse offered for an inadequate response in BiH back then.
Those were the same excuses for not regulating derivatives trading, not regulating mortgage brokers, not regulating hedge funds, not regulating insurers and industrial finance companies, and not second-guessing the underwriting of federally insured banks.
"Those are the same excuses animal rights activists used when they posted my information on the Web," Jentsch says.
But that is the same unacceptable excuse used during apartheid by white people for why they couldn't provide books to black children.
Russia is using the same excuse, of protecting its citizens, that Hitler used in 1939". It is so far not yet clear what impact this crisis will have on the political fortunes of Saakashviili, Georgia's pro-US leader.
Gogolek points out that the RCMP is using the same excuse to avoid releasing its case files on former NDP leader Tommy Douglas, citing those documents as "operationally sensitive".
He writes, "NSA said they only have the redacted [files], and 'lost' the originals... as you can see -- DIA is using the same excuse, with the safety note they will try again... asking me for stuff they already have".
The Supreme Court's decision correctly rejects that standard, which is the same as the excuse of separate but equal once used to rationalize racial segregation.
Because Internet or not, this is the same kind of excuse-making behavior I see in the "real world" when white people who are unaffected by racism and choose to remain unaware of white privilege are confronted with conversations about harmful behavior of white people.
As this was precisely the same excuse he had used at his last appearance, everyone on the committee was underwhelmed.
