Sentence examples for poor excuse for from inspiring English sources

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It was a poor excuse for a dive [laughs].

It's true that there are no good options here, but that's a poor excuse for paralysis.

But that's a poor excuse for the cynicism that dominates conventional foreign policy.

Asserting that "there is simply too much to know" is a poor excuse for justifying ignorance.

Mr. Aviles said that understaffing was a poor excuse for failing to read tests and risking the health of patients.

Ours had been a poor excuse for a marriage, borne on an ill wind from the start.

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"It has required a court of law to summon the authorities for us to see their hand-wringing and poor excuses for inaction".

"Lame-duck sessions are poor excuses for sloppy, secretive legislation," John B. Oakes wrote in an Op-Ed in The New York Times after the 1982 session.

Tech isn't some out-of-the-way industry, whose poor excuses for a lack of self-reflexivity we can ignore (like a racist, cantankerous grandfather).

The disciplinary commission said ABAE had offered "poor excuses for evading its responsibilities and obligations" regarding the external interference in its constitution.

You don't write, do ya, for them internet poor excuses for real papers, do ya?

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