Sentence examples for than excused from inspiring English sources

Re "Payback Time: Why Revenge Tastes So Sweet" (July 27): Revenge is clearly a human emotion, but, like other destructive reactions, it needs to be curbed rather than excused or sanctioned by scientists.

Still, it's better to err on the side of caution rather than excuse potential risks, I suppose!

Fard just took the science of his day and flipped it to inspire the oppressed rather than excuse the oppressors.

And I respected her because she demanding my coming up to her standards rather than excusing me for my standards of meritocracy.

When George Zimmerman was found not guilty, I never needed a doc to express the devastating unfairness and loss of hope the hope that a justice system would extend a damn olive branch to a black life rather than excuse it.

Mr Nice is nothing more than – excuse the expression – a glorified puff piece.

Those who perished on Monday deserve more than excuses for why we won't.

But they should have ended by searching for superlatives rather than excuses.

In the interim there are the expected grievances that may prove to be no more than excuses.

Though Bonfiglioli has a knack for cliffhangers, the plots are little more than excuses for displaying Mortdecai in all his dandyish glory.

Claiming recent attacks on Muslims and Sikhs are a predictable consequence of terrorism does nothing more than excuse racism in the West.