Sentence examples for set of excuses from inspiring English sources

Commerce can provide its own set of excuses.

Our failure to create jobs is a choice, not a necessity — a choice rationalized by an ever-shifting set of excuses.

Mr. Cavanagh objects to what he believes are loopholes created by the initiatives, which he called "a whole new set of excuses" for utilities to invoke to avoid compliance.

The Future of British Police BRITAIN'S FIRST YOUTH PCC SAID SOME STUFF SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE ON TWITTER Then came up with literally the worst set of excuses ever uttered in the history of humanity.

GOP anger with Trump has been known to dissipate quickly, with supporters picking up a set of excuses for why the president's behavior wasn't as outrageous or reprehensible as it seemed at first blush.

I, in turn, would decline, typically citing from a set of practiced excuses.

A lot of excuses.

The ideal technology was very old, and the proliferation of alternatives was not Darwinian but almost Freudian, a set of alibis and excuses designed to repress the old and primal truth.

The first set of tips are excuses for not going to work.

We will call on our band of hired apologists: "experts," "commentators" and "analysts" to concoct a set of justifications and excuses for his nauseating conduct, from mythical economic development and reform to political shrewdness, and if all else fails, reach for the Kessinger-Albright dictionary and throw in some "political realism".

The New York State Board of Regents is set to excuse school districts from a requirement to provide extra help to all students who fail the state's standardized exams, a number that grew by hundreds of thousands after the state made the exams tougher to pass this year.