Sentence examples for sufficient excuse for from inspiring English sources

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

It's a common political device, this one, to deny you're going to do something and then proceed as if the act of denial is sufficient excuse for you then to go on and do it.

There would certainly be a high political cost to rejecting the pipeline, but that is not a sufficient excuse for a president who cares about his legacy.

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

When two local tribes began to migrate on a route that would take them near (not into) the Roman province of Transalpine Gaul, Caesar had the barely sufficient excuse he needed for his Gallic Wars, fought between 58 BC and 49 BC.

When the Helvetii and Tigurini tribes began to migrate on a route that would take them near (not into) the Roman province of Transalpine Gaul, Caesar had the barely sufficient excuse he needed for his Gallic Wars, fought between 58 BC and 49 BC.

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.

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

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

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

He told the audience: "There was no excuse for not having sufficient officers on duty in Tottenham on Saturday night.