Sentence examples for original excuse from inspiring English sources

The RPF's original excuse for intervention disappeared pretty rapidly - in fact it soon linked up with the Hutu killers it was supposed to be hunting, and used them to help control the region.

Hergé later admitted the flaws in the original story, excusing it saying, "I portrayed these Africans according to ... this purely paternalistic spirit of the time".

And still, President Trump dictated Don, Jr.,'s original statement and excused him after the scandal broke, calling Don, Jr., a "good boy".

Our error was due to the fact that the filing was not labeled as an amendment (that's just an explanation for our original post, not an excuse).

However that does not excuse her original behavior.

It is pointless to criticize the opera's unfaithfulness to the original, which becomes merely an excuse for a conventional mid-19th-century melodrama.

Regardless of my original intent, there is no excuse for my poor judgment in using this word.

The bigger scandal is the coördinated effort to use the American intelligence services to manufacture an excuse for Trump's original tweet.

And thankfully so, because one of the two "small plates" that followed was, excusing the oxymoron, an original classic.

The Mercury judges, for instance, excused its lack of original material, describing it as "a remarkable showcase of classic soul power".

● Pizza attracts hyperbole — just think of all those "original" Ray's — so Peter Genovese can be excused for his subtitle.