Sentence examples for making excuses at from inspiring English sources

I am not making excuses at all.

I returned to Guzmán again — and again — making excuses at home, cashing in frequent-flier miles or using work as a way to jump the Atlantic, with a side trip to the village.

Van Commenee's verdict comes a year after he introduced a zero-tolerance policy on making excuses at the World Championships, complaining that athletes were in danger of being seen as a bunch of "pussies and wankers" by the public.

In the last 100 years, the United States has reacted to one genocide after another -- Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Bosnians -- by making excuses at the time, and then saying, too late, "Oh, if only we had known!" Well, this time we know what is happening in Darfur: 110,000 refugees have escaped into Chad and testify to the atrocities.

"You can't make excuses at this level and I could have done more.

But there are a lot of things that can make it worse, and making excuses is at the very top of the list.

One thing pro-Europeans in Britain have always excelled at: they are brilliant at making excuses.

Young children are bad — pathetically, often annoyingly, occasionally heartbreakingly — at making excuses.

I'm not making excuses for my behaviour at all," he added.

The defenders of deregulation should stop making excuses and look seriously at what went wrong.

It's a real stretch, even for a guy who's gotten pretty good at making excuses".