Sentence examples for sufficient excuse from inspiring English sources

"But he never asked," I told myself, as if that were sufficient excuse.

But that's not a sufficient excuse for staging an assault on the Constitution.

It had happened before their daughter was born, and was sufficient excuse, he felt, for his carrying on with Julia.

A "statistical disparity based on race," the standard that Judge Sotomayor and her colleagues used, is no longer a sufficient excuse, Justice Kennedy said.

An unverified report from a clandestine agent that yesterday or the day before some guerrillas had gathered in the hamlet was sufficient excuse to start the shelling.

Waiting for governments to get it right is neither a solution, nor a sufficient excuse, if business is to meet the wave of rising expectations.

Stupidity, thoughtlessness, indifference, and incompetence are not morally sufficient excuses nor valid legal defenses".

They're not sufficient to excuse the company's failure to improve the boarding process.

The problems required government action, he said, and while the new changes were not by themselves sufficient, "that is no excuse for inaction".

Excusing the salary offered: Telling yourself that the offered salary is already good enough, that you don't need more or that you will love the job so the money offered will be sufficient, etc., are all excuses.

"And I kept demanding my wages, and he kept saying, 'I'll pay you later, I'll pay you later.' After six months of this, he said I hadn't done a sufficient job… as an excuse not to pay me".