Sentence examples for practical excuse from inspiring English sources

Proclaiming success, he says, is not simply premature; it could have the curious effect of sanctioning its own decline, by providing a "practical excuse to postpone political reform or even to declare it totally unnecessary".

Lack of practical needs can become an excuse for health care workers to justify their fear of HIV infection and their reluctance to provide good services for HIV-infected people [ 7, 24].

India needs to reform its absurdly restrictive labour laws which hold back the expansion of manufacturing particularly.The second excuse for doing nothing is practical: there is little room to spend more on schools and hospitals.

Will this be a serious, practical examination of the issue, or just an excuse to attack President Obama's climate policies for the midterm elections?

And there are some practical things he has helped with, like cooking up an excuse as to why a dead alien in Green Lantern looked so much like a human.

But as a practical matter, both Democrats and Republicans often use it as an excuse to gerrymander districts for their own political advantage.

My excuse for not going back to grad school was practical.

There is quite a range: some are pieces that are basically excuses to have a helpful device nearby, others are designs with minimal practical purpose.

Different types of policy response are required by reasons based on (a) practical obstacles, (b) clinical counter-arguments that may be part-justified, and (c) veiled excuses not to practice effectively or reflectively.

She seems to know all the excuses and impediments to coping effectively with a cluttering problem, and she offers practical, clinically proven antidotes to them.

A common excuse involves telling a judge that an ambulance was chasing you into an intersection (not practical; the judge can clearly see if that is the case).