Sentence examples for order to excuse from inspiring English sources

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.

Yet considering the enormity of what the Government has done – sacking an expert of world renown because he does not acquiesce to its political agenda, and then offering feeble and mendacious excuses in order to justify this – Dr Harris's stand is puny.

In anticipation of their fans' lameness, the US federation issued this note from head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, which workers could take to their bosses in order to be excused to go watch the game.

Dr. Dave's Guide to Writing the College Paper," noting that term-paper writing is "one of those skills in life that people are obliged to master in order to be excused from ever practicing them again".

One might even find room to excuse his order to stop smoking, if she were assumed to be someone who had already killed another human being.

In order to make excuses for our behaviour (because excuses have to be made, of course – no "normal" woman would choose prostitution for a living) reports such as Big Brothel promote the victim status of prostitutes, making such sweeping generalisations such as "if the women do not have pimps as such, their money will likely go to fund their coping strategies, such as drugs and alcohol".

"With the rest, you're just filling voids between years in order to create excuses for more advertising," said Mr. Nelson, whose 50th anniversary GQ party was blaring into the wee hours.

In order to produce excuses bad faith first takes a third-person stance toward itself, identifying itself entirely with facticity.