Sentence examples for supplying excuses from inspiring English sources

For much of this year, FedEx has been running ads in newspapers and golf publications, supplying excuses that people can use to skip work and watch the FedEx Cup playoffs.

All of this has activated a sense of insecurity, and supplied excuses for varying kinds of nationalisms.

He offers wiseacre advice to candidates (e.g., Bush should take Strom Thurmond for vice president) and supplies arch excuses for their insults (e.g., McCain was talking about breakfast rolls when he said Bush was not up to the role of president).

The two stepchildren dishonestly fabricate damage to their apartment to supply an excuse for not taking Nariman back.

Some unpopular Normans were driven out, including Archbishop Robert, whose archbishopric was given to Stigand; this act supplied one excuse for the papal support of William's cause.

The new rules were intended to rob Iraq of any excuse for not supplying its people by lifting almost all restrictions on civilian imports and issuing a specific list of goods that had to be controlled.

Since nearly everyone has had some adversity or disappointment in life, there is an endless supply of excuses for present unhappiness or just plain bad behavior.

Nevertheless, there seems to be an endless supply of excuses for why PINs received the boot.

In "A Year's Supply of Excuses for Girls," the Dunkers offer just that: "He forced me," "I was too drunk to know what I was doing," "He said I'd lose my job if I didn't".

They also don't think it matters:Political and emotional conditions do supply an understandable excuse for expending money, but not a valid one, and they do not relieve officials of the responsibility of seeking to expend public funds wisely.

He was killed at the order of Severus's son and successor, Caracalla, perhaps for refusing to supply a legal excuse for the new emperor's murder of his brother and political rival, Geta.