Sentence examples for standard excuse from inspiring English sources

The standard excuse is that it is rooted in German history and culture and therefore unexportable.

My standard excuse for this appalling illiteracy is: "I'm saving it for my final illness".

It has now become our standard excuse for lack of male attention and a bit of a running joke.

The standard excuse people like Mr Limbaugh make in these circumstances can be encapsulated in a word: "entertainer".

"What used to work doesn't, and staff have a standard excuse for problems, blaming a transmitter fault and saying 'wait until it's been repaired'".

I thought I'd reserve my other standard excuse — the ball hit a pebble — just in case she suggested that we do the Test again.

Even if so, critics must take care not to indulge in a double standard: excusing the U.S.S.R. for being "realistic" and damning the United States for being insufficiently "idealistic".

Britain's standard excuses have been related to the rainy climate that curtails the sport's outdoor recreational appeal and Wimbledon's grass courts that are part of tennis lore but are not the ideal developmental surface.

The defense attorney is trying to persuade the jurors that his client is not responsible for his action, but not for any of the standard excusing conditions — insanity, accident, mistaken belief, duress, mental handicap, and so on.

Community leaders are likely to fire back with two standard excuses, he said: "One is that it's all economics, and two, that the part which is not economics is choice".

I guess we fucking do, because this week Jennifer Rubin, in a Bush-praising WashingthatPost piece that's awful even by her rock-bottom standards, excused "the dreaded enhanced interrogation" (what a fucking weasel-word term) on the grounds that it "contributed to our locating and assassinating Osama bin Laden," while simultaneously praising Bush's "clear moral compass".