Sentence examples for the excuses given from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the excuses given for keeping quiet are as important as the facts of a case.

Surrey Police and Surrey County Council have released details of the excuses given by drivers as part of a campaign targeting the use of mobile phones while behind the wheel.

One apparently compares women to dogs, reading "nice new girlfriend, what breed is she?", while the other features a set of reasons for the wearer's bad behaviour, similar to the excuses given by perpetrators of domestic violence.

A series of text-message jokes imagine the excuses given by Mumbai's elite for not voting: "No valet parking at polling booth" is one; "Spotted servant in queue ahead of us" another.

These were among the excuses given by British officials following General Gordon's disastrous foray into the Sudan against the Mahdi Army in 1884-85, which ended, as legend has it, with his simultaneous puncturing by the spears of four dervishes.

One of the country's leading prosecutors has defended the stiff sentences handed out to hundreds of rioters in London last summer and derided the excuses given by some of them in court.

The excuse given for impotence is now that the US has toughened its criteria for removal.

"It's partly youth, and that's often the excuse given for it.

The excuse given was that she could not answer the questions asked of her by increasingly indignant senators without breaking rules about client privilege.

For other people, however, grilling becomes the excuse, given the right season or climate, to move the entire cooking operation outdoors, along with all the bells and whistles of indoor kitchens.

"The excuse given by the Saudi government is that there's not enough accommodation, but do you really need to be so close to the Grand Mosque and the House of Allah?