Sentence examples for rational excuse from inspiring English sources

David Blunkett, the former minister who is heading Labour's fund-raising campaign ahead of the election, said: "With the best will in the world, it's difficult to find a rational excuse for the inordinate amount of time this inquiry has taken.

The only rational excuse Google investors have for owning a stock priced at 220 times earnings is its outrageous growth: Google owns 40% of the market for advertising revenue generated by search keywords.

There are no rational excuses for invading," said Sutyagin.

With the last rational-sounding excuse for continuing the war, bringing Bin Laden to "justice," gone, continuing this counterinsurgency campaign makes no sense, and it's making Americans and Afghans less safe while wasting precious national resources.

Fear makes those excuses seem rational.

But the rational fan knows that logical excuses like these are just that: excuses.

The only way to be excused from flying such missions is to be declared insane, but asking to be excused for the reason of insanity is proof of a rational mind and bars being excused.

And I think that is a perfect excuse and a rational one for a primary challenge".

In other words, genes may be, in part, an explanation for some of the awful things we do as human beings, but they are never an excuse, given our ability as rational creatures to understand the consequences of our actions.

"Neglect of such literal, rational questions in imaginative fiction is often excused, even legitimised, as literary licence.

Even the much-maligned figure of rational economic man, maximising his utility, is less an article of faith than an excuse to use calculus.