Sentence examples for previous excuses from inspiring English sources

In the minds of many area residents, that was far preferable to previous excuses for downtown celebrations, like those that came after Super Bowl victories by the Denver Broncos in 1998 and 1999, when drunken revelers smashed windows, looted stores, overturned cars and set fires, leaving business owners with millions of dollars in damages.

Turner will always be a convicted sex offender, but he has the opportunity to unequivocally reject his previous excuses and devote himself to advocacy work against sexual assault.

Her previous excuse for opposing the ERA, in which she claimed that women would be drafted into the armed forces has, of course, fallen to the wayside.

My previous excuse for lying in bed all day with the curtains drawn (because I was trying to avoid having to look at billboards of James Spader wearing a fedora) has ceased being serviceable.

"You are either with the country or with terrorism," warned the daily Al Watan.It's all America's faultMany Saudi Muslims excused previous acts of terror on the ground that Islam itself was under threat from a rampaging America.

Miles refused to use the physical nature of the Tigers' come-from-behind victory over Florida the previous week as an excuse for why Kentucky was able to rally.

This doesn't excuse my previous stance on gay marriage -- in fact, it makes it somewhat worse.

His excuse: The previous night, at four in the morning he got caught up in a fit of inspiration and was obsessively working on perfecting a song.

Back then he excused the previous administration of lying us into a costly, clumsy war where Iran so far is the only clear winner.

Walk as slow as you want and if you're late to class no worries, just blame your previous teacher for not excusing you at the right time.

We make no excuses for the previous failure to disclose the data breach.