Sentence examples for official excuses from inspiring English sources

HAMDIJE SEAPI, a local Gorani official, excuses himself to go to the funeral of a woman from a neighbouring village.

Others argued that official excuses from the S.N.C.F. could tarnish the image of a company that has long been portrayed as a bastion of the French resistance movement.

So much for the official excuses for this weekend's appearance of most global statesmen, leaders from Italy to India and China to the Czech Republic, in this city of 4.5 million.

A statement on Saturday said: "We firmly condemn this violation and we demand the democratic council to release immediately the president of the local council of the city of Aleppo and to explain this precedent and to offer official excuses".

The official excuse is to prevent terrorists from slipping into Gaza, as Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Monday.

"She can't get off the toilet," was the official excuse phoned in.

He sees festivals like Eaux Claires, Music NOW and Boston Calling as "basically an official excuse to hang out.

The official excuse is that in 1987 there was no understanding of a phenomenon now called the "sting jet".

While Hannah's friends flee, Suzette, veteran acid head that she is, takes the girl in and comforts her and in the morning escorts her home, the official excuse being that Hannah got sick mixing red and white wine.

But, the Giants are also offering a service in case you just want to bunk off work to watch on TV: San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) Need an official excuse to get out of work today?

But the lame official excuse that the timid officers were "not trained in this type of rescue" raised hackles.A fundamentalist reading of health-and-safety rules may be the real culprit; it caused the same force to ban coppers from riding bicycles.