Sentence examples for main excuses from inspiring English sources

Other Cubans, including political dissidents, say softening the embargo would increase the pressure for more rapid change by undermining one of the government's main excuses for failing to provide freedom, economic opportunity or just basic supplies.

Even so, the Brookings study reckons it will be tough to persuade senior officers to give them up while most other arms of the state have their own sidelines.The findings undermine one of the army chiefs' main excuses for keeping their businesses: that they desperately need the revenues to supplement the meagre official budget.

"His two main excuses seem to be 'I was asleep at the switch' and 'I'm just a bad judge of character.' " But Scott McLean, a professor of political science at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., said the indictments were unlikely to hurt the governor.

As job growth continues to elude the U.S. economy, we're hearing two main excuses from the Bush administration and its supporters: that the real situation is much better than you're hearing, and that to the extent employment is lagging, it's the result of factors outside the administration's control.

JC: You often talk about how the main excuses about why people don't eat healthy (time and money) are complete rubbish.

The stereotype of black men as sexual aggressors against white women was often used as one of the main excuses to subjugate blacks—it also obscures the actual history of rape in America slavery, once a routine practice in this country.

China's main excuse for holding down the yuan to support battered exporters is no longer tenable in light of the rebound in exports.

And the pilots' main excuse -- the oft-cited "fog of war" -- could be rebutted by a wealth of recorded cockpit conversations, targeting video and flight data.

"Lack of funding has been the main excuse that local election officials have used to avoid implementing paper precautions," Ms. Burt said.

Their exploding emissions are America's main excuse for failing to take action itself; and their intransigence exasperates those trying to negotiate a global agreement on climate-change mitigation to replace the Kyoto protocol.

Even if truth to human nature in the depiction of character is aesthetically relevant (which many would question), to say this is still far from saying that it is the only criterion for excellence in works of art, or even that this is the principal thing that art gives or its main excuse for being.