Sentence examples for several excuses from inspiring English sources

Snoxell said defence was one of several excuses used down the years by the UK government to justify its decision to block resettlement claims.

"Corporations now have several excuses that seem to resonate on Wall Street, from bad weather in January to the Middle East to the Japanese earthquake impacting the supply chain or sentiment," said Adam Parker, chief United States equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, in a client note.

And at least Bergen had several excuses: he was the league's best defender at catcher (usually considered the most important defensive position on the field) and the National League as a whole hit.244 that season, scoring only 3.7 runs a game.

"I contacted O2 about this and they have given me several excuses, including saying it is because I live in a granite building, and problems in the area, but they give no date of when it will be fixed, and it was due to the switchover from 3G to 4G".

4. Those who don't want their children getting too much of that healthy Maine summer air will have several excuses to dump them into a dark theater here, beginning with a preseason production of "Les Misérables -- School Edition," a version of the long-running Broadway show geared to ages 19 and younger (June 17-19).

There's something very Iron Maiden about Wedding, dabbling as it does in the occult world of early-20th-century mystic Aleister Crowley, finding several excuses to liberate young women from their clothes, and incorporating dialogue that sounds as if it was lifted from the Number of the Beast's lyric sheet.

After several thousand "excuse me's," I negotiated a spot in line for the register and waited while three other customers unloaded their carts and paid.

After much delay and many excuses, several western retailers and brands on Monday agreed to a plan that should help improve building safety in the garment factories of Bangladesh.

People try to explain it away by calling it simply nothing more than excessive displays of good sportsmanship but run out of excuses several months later when the two start living together on a ranch in New Mexico.

And, to be completely candid, this is despite them having several very strong excuses to drop me along the way.

Several of the excuses for avoiding structural equation model testing evaporate once it is understood that the amount of ill fit between the data covariance matrix and the model-implied covariance matrix Σ does NOT assuredly, consistently, or reliably correspond to the seriousness of the problems in a model's specification.