Sentence examples for refuses to excuse from inspiring English sources

Bolt was not physically at his best, and struggling with a tight hamstring, but he refuses to excuse his successive losses in Jamaica.

Atwood's clear-eyed depiction of a far-too-believable dystopia explodes our current problems with mass incarceration and substitutes for human intimacy, but also refuses to excuse our individual human failings on some faceless fascist state.

Clinton also refused to excuse the "huge personal lapse" by her husband, Blair wrote.

That means refusing to excuse hatred for political expediency; it means mobilising when the far right marches in emboldened efforts to renew its support.

Levy came into conflict with Oakland's public schools, which refused to excuse Jewish students on High Holy Days.

Additionally, the district allegedly refused to excuse the absences that resulted from Seals' pregnancy and childbirth, and would not allow her to make up missed work from the spring 2014 semester or give her credit for completed work.

Yet he refuses to use that excuse.

Waldrop refuses to psychologize or allegorize, to excuse, pity, or condescend.

But the Somerset trainer refuses to make any excuses, even though a number of his horses were taken ill.

The SEC and its supporters pleaded that the agency simply doesn't have the time or the resources to pursue cases more fully or aggressively -- an argument that Rakoff doesn't fully dismiss but one that he refuses to accept as an excuse in the face of alleged wrongdoing so outrageous and emblematic.

But Spence, formerly Marley's assistant and an Everton coach since 2004, refuses to make complaints or excuses.