Sentence examples similar to powerful excuses from inspiring English sources

If so, it was certainly a powerful excuse.

The suggestion that these children are a lost cause provides a powerful excuse for ignoring those growing up in poverty.

That may play well in Israeli polls, but it has given Arab leaders a powerful excuse to do nothing.

In criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent decision to build new settlements, you say, "That may play well in Israeli polls, but it has given Arab leaders a powerful excuse to do nothing".

"Alas," he said, "religious faith has too often been the language of the powerful, the excuse for oppression, the alibi for atrocity".

Would the arrogance of powerful men even excuse that?

Mr. Mack does not recall the incident so harshly, but he has no qualms about the message the story carries: in John Mack's world, being rich and powerful is no excuse for bad behavior.

Every day I bow down to how powerful this one excuse was to motivate me into making such great and wonderful new friends.

In the early days of the education-reform movement, a decade or so ago, you'd often hear from reformers a powerful rallying cry: "No excuses".

She believes the days of such excuses from the powerful are numbered.

But neither the absence of a perfect solution nor opposition from the powerful gun lobby is an excuse to do nothing — not when some 30 people are killed with guns every day in America.