Sentence examples for order excuse from inspiring English sources
Fuck your order — ' " "Excuse me," a fellow-panelist, Christopher Hitchens, said.
The danger of Mubarak's murky speech, of course, is that the jubilant mood on the square which preceded it will turn sour and angry (it already has), and that Mubarak will order — excuse me, advise; he is just advising now — his armed minions back into the fray.
We have never been comfortable with the "only following orders" excuse, especially because Americans still do not know what was actually done or who was giving the orders.
This view of Nazi actions is certainly in keeping with the latest Holocaust scholarship, which has destroyed the "I had no choice but to follow orders" excuse.
The amoral interpretation fastens on Machiavelli's frequent resort to "necessity" in order to excuse actions that might otherwise be condemned as immoral.
She said he told her that "perhaps I needed to see myself as a victim in order to excuse my failures in life" and that she ought to "get over it".
For example, in order to excuse the seizure of two months of AP phone records, the government cited its investigation into a leak about a foiled Yemeni terror plot.
As the case is reviewed, particular attention should be devoted to understanding what else was going on in the ICU that might have led to delays - but doing so not in order to excuse the delays but in order to develop resilient systems that will allow appropriately rapid resuscitation even in the face of such other factors.
Benjie would have to follow orders without excuses.
To the Editor: Re "Report Provides New Details on C.I.A. Prisoner Abuse" (news article, Aug. 23): Now that the Justice Department has documented these crimes committed in our name, a special prosecutor must go after not only the actual torturers but also those who ordered or excused the torture if we are to stop those in power from continuing to put themselves above the law.
He does not agree that his father's "following orders" argument excuses his actions and notes how his father's lack of remorse caused "difficult emotions" for the Eichmann family.
