Sentence examples for trumped up excuse from inspiring English sources

Peru's splintered opposition parties immediately condemned the firing of Príncipe on what many believe was a trumped up excuse of her talking to the press about the case without authorization.

Also beware of excuses; a simple apology is far more effective in maintaining trust than a box car full of trumped up excuses and finger pointing.

I trumped up excuses for why I was trolling the Starbucks Sucks Web site and the Society for Creative Procrastination home page.

You're not going to sit up and trump up excuses and make out a story which you know to be a lie about specific dates and times.

All of this, in short, tends to suggest that Peter Stein had cold feet about his Boris Godunov debut at the Met and trumped up an excuse to get out of his contract.

The charges were ludicrous, trumped up.

I know many black men who have been pulled over for some trumped-up excuse and felt threatened by police.

"With hindsight," he writes, "it was a trumped-up excuse for radical activism for its own sake".

The leader of the country's opposition political party was jailed last year on sodomy charges that are widely viewed as a trumped-up excuse for political persecution.

So, I offer a sincere apology, without the buffer of some trumped-up excuse (a tactic I've resorted to in the past).

Secondly, an attack on NATO, trumped up on any excuse of Russian- speaking people, either in the NATO countries or in Finland or Sweden is going to be an attack on us.