Sentence examples for real excuse from inspiring English sources

In short, there is no real excuse for not getting on with the job.

There was no real excuse for the errors which had presented Ludogorets with their unlikely lead.

What Virginia required — ten thousand signatures, including four hundred in each Congressional district — wasn't so awful as to provide Gingrich with a real excuse; he just looks clumsy, and not for the first time.

Another tranche will put him on course to be the most generous dispenser of peerages of our era, well above Tony Blair, who had the real excuse that in 1997 the Lords was heavily stacked against Labour.

An otherwise fairly responsible parent, I was for some reason late to the inoculation party this year, a tardiness for which I had no real excuse, especially amid the Dallas Ebola scare, which sent me and my wife to our iPhones for the latest news when we should have been paying closer attention to more mundane matters of family health.

"Employers also understand that without the term 'civil union' or 'domestic partner' to hide behind, if they don't give equal benefits to employees in same-sex marriages, these employers would have to come forth with the real excuse for discrimination," he told the panel at its first hearing, in New Brunswick.

There are no real excuses, just explanations.

But there's no real excuses for it.

Victor Espinoza, the rider of California Chrome, offered no real excuses for the favourite's defeat.

The world's leading swimmers, accordingly, can have no real excuses if they fail to grab the world's imagination.

It is important to remember however the knowledge does not make all problems go away, as the body is still the body, the mind is still the mind, the difference now is you know there are no real excuses left and that the stress and unhappiness we experience is caused by the mind.