Sentence examples for this hardly excuses from inspiring English sources

Bernhard's misogyny has been traced to his alienation from his mother — he was raised by his grandparents — but this hardly excuses such rants.

But that hardly excuses the earlier uprisings.Many more popular overthrows that at first seemed splendid have turned out badly.

But it hardly excuses it.

That may be true, but it hardly excuses the predatory practices of many priests.

That she may be too far gone to care or to protect herself hardly excuses the invasion of her privacy.

An account of how this motley army worked together makes for enjoyable reading.Though she produces long-buried material indicting both South Koreans and American bystanders, Ms Jager hardly excuses the North.

A messy triumvirate of the two Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as boss of News International on July 15th, helps explain (though it hardly excuses) the firm's pathetic failure to investigate quickly phone-hacking and bribery.

So, though it hardly excuses any of the awfulness, the party is perhaps reaping its own whirlwind: when an organisation's moral centre implodes (and here, it's worth the obligatory mention of Iraq), anything goes.

Kelly musters some sympathy for the frustrated banking specialists who joined the Bank board when "the die was already cast" but hardly excuses their inaction: "I am surprised that a Board which did possess a small number of experienced and well-regarded individuals nevertheless failed to raise more concerns about the way the Bank was being managed".

As we will examine, that hardly excuses teams of making costly mistakes.

The fact that it wasn't the intended point of the invasion hardly excuses the perpetrators from responsibility.