Sentence examples for the main excuse from inspiring English sources

"Lack of funding has been the main excuse that local election officials have used to avoid implementing paper precautions," Ms. Burt said.

But progress is slow, with reformers stuck in an argument about who should pay the costs of clarity.If you strip out the obvious self-interests of the jurisdictions that make money from hiding people's identity, the main excuse offered is privacy.

It remains to be seen if Promo Hutt can reduce pre-release leaks for those who use it, but at least it takes away the main excuse for these leaks: not being able to access a record you really want legally, as soon as you hear it on the radio or in the club.

This was the main excuse that held me back for years.

The main excuse we've gotten so far is that Hillary Clinton just has too much on her plate.

By making it clear that "harassment" means no more and no less than the Davis standard, OCR can eliminate the main excuse for campus speech codes.

JC: You often talk about how the main excuses about why people don't eat healthy (time and money) are complete rubbish.

The stereotype of black men as sexual aggressors against white women was often used as one of the main excuses to subjugate blacks—it also obscures the actual history of rape in America slavery, once a routine practice in this country.

The stereotype of black men as a sexual aggressors against white women was often used as one of the main excuses to subjugate blacks—it also obscures the actual history of rape in America slavery, once a routine practice in this country.

And the pilots' main excuse -- the oft-cited "fog of war" -- could be rebutted by a wealth of recorded cockpit conversations, targeting video and flight data.

China's main excuse for holding down the yuan to support battered exporters is no longer tenable in light of the rebound in exports.