Sentence examples for thin excuse from inspiring English sources

Yet he had some thin excuse.

"I hope that we will not have a coup .In any event, the army's call for a six-week delay seems a thin excuse.

Yet for weeks after they first promised the European Union that they would withdraw from Georgia proper, the Russians kept their troops and checkpoints on the thin excuse of taking "security measures".

But that coincidence seems a pretty thin excuse for a huge international event, and the statement had no noticeable effect.It is not just that APEC has no obvious function.

Robinson's thin excuse for his act of political hara-kiri is the sudden re-emergence of the IRA in the killing of a former IRA assassin Kevin McGuigan – a "green on green" killing.

The fact that it was conceived in order to respond to demand for DRM from companies that insist on DRM for their business-models, and that its deployment and use is entirely concerned with DRM, makes this a pretty thin excuse.

These are all excuses of one kind or another, and pretty thin excuses.

History will not be hoodwinked by the thin excuses Hillary Clinton's supporters make for her disastrous loss in 2016.

Of thick skins and thin excuses No one is better suited to nursing Jeremy through his long night of the soul than Alastair Campbell, the campaigner for increased sensitivity towards mental frailty who – cross his heart – never briefed no one nor nuffink nor not about Gordon Brown's "psychological flaws" and Mandy being doolally.

Beyoncé, however, rolls her eyes at the thin excuses, and assures Rowland that she and Williams love her and she does not need not to suffer alone.

But Trump made that look like a paper-thin excuse almost immediately after the letter's release when he told NBC's Lester Holt the "Russia thing" was on his mind when he fired Comey.