Sentence examples for two main excuses from inspiring English sources
"His two main excuses seem to be 'I was asleep at the switch' and 'I'm just a bad judge of character.' " But Scott McLean, a professor of political science at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., said the indictments were unlikely to hurt the governor.
As job growth continues to elude the U.S. economy, we're hearing two main excuses from the Bush administration and its supporters: that the real situation is much better than you're hearing, and that to the extent employment is lagging, it's the result of factors outside the administration's control.
Mr Kennedy seems to think his intellectual sloppiness makes him a more normal person than the political obsessives who lead the two main parties a poor excuse for a man who has spent his entire adult life as professional politician.Mr Kennedy's warm welcome this week to Brian Sedgemore, a defector from Labour, was a good deal more troubling.
Other Cubans, including political dissidents, say softening the embargo would increase the pressure for more rapid change by undermining one of the government's main excuses for failing to provide freedom, economic opportunity or just basic supplies.
Even so, the Brookings study reckons it will be tough to persuade senior officers to give them up while most other arms of the state have their own sidelines.The findings undermine one of the army chiefs' main excuses for keeping their businesses: that they desperately need the revenues to supplement the meagre official budget.
Two main courses disappointed.
Two main problems remain.
In 2006, however, similarly small-scale clashes were among the coup leaders' excuses for deposing the elected government.The protests' return may mark the end of several months of phoney war between the two main camps in Thai politics.
