Sentence examples for may not excuse from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: Regarding Bob Tedeschi's article "Working the Web for Hotel Rooms" (Cyberscout, May 13), the disclosure by the Hotel Pennsylvania in a Web listing that the rooms available for booking had not been renovated may or may not excuse his bad experience there.

We may not excuse Walter White's actions, but the fact that we can identify at all with a character who achieves financial independence by selling poison and murdering people reflects our understanding of what would happen if he accepted the fate handed to him by the present-day market economy.

His reasons may not excuse his actions, but they may help explain them and help you come to terms with them.

But uncertainty about how much it may work does not excuse silence about its political ramifications.

And whatever the answers may be, they do not excuse the failure to act of people who should have recognised a crime.

Ancient artifacts may be plentiful, but that does not excuse the method used to extract them.

But though this may explain Japan's errors, it does not excuse them.

While it is understandable that you may want to defend yourself, this does not excuse lashing out physically.

Her naivete at 22 years old may not have excused her behavior but it sure explained a lot about how she got herself brutally slammed in front of the public relations nightmare that became a media circus and a very public form of humiliation.

But that does not excuse Facebook treating your personal data as the property of another person who may or may not care where that data ends up.

These people may need different treatment or extra help if they have committed violent and aggressive crimes but that does not excuse their behaviour.