Sentence examples for once excused from inspiring English sources

He had once excused his older brother from being the best man at his wedding when work intruded.

Her father, John Salisbury, a lawyer, once excused her from the family dinner table in Stamford, Conn., for talking about soccer instead of apartheid.

On Wednesday, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence who once excused a lie to Congress by explaining that it was "the most truthful or least untruthful" thing he could say, issued another burst of fog about a Le Monde article that said the United States collected data on 70 million French telephone records in a 30-day period.

Roche is perhaps best known for once excusing an absence in Parliament thus: "Mr. Speaker, it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird".

Not only did the host receive calls throughout the evening, he also once even excused himself to make one.

Does a group of six lads being nice to a nerd once suddenly excuse years of sloping, high-piled misogyny?

Once again, officials excused the outbreak as an "emotional reaction" by "rogue elements".

Once he was excused during voir dire for interrogating the lawyer and being "generally obnoxious," he said.

Certainly, one way to see the current insanity of our circumstances is in part through this lens: Trump and his most fanatical followers represent the last remnant of the old cultural dispensation, which asserts its right to harass women what Trump boasts of doing might once have been excused as "making a pass"—and frisk black people and all the rest.

At day's end, once the jurors were excused, prosecutors argued to the judge that Hardin should not be able to question the legitimacy of the Congressional hearings without the government being able to fight back.

My boys remember to ask to be excused about once out of four times.