Sentence examples for understandable excuse from inspiring English sources

One of them, Anthony M. Kennedy, had an understandable excuse, for he was at that moment flying back from China.

Del Zotto's unsteady performance in his team's 4-1 loss to the Devils in Game 4 on Monday was not without an understandable excuse.

They also don't think it matters:Political and emotional conditions do supply an understandable excuse for expending money, but not a valid one, and they do not relieve officials of the responsibility of seeking to expend public funds wisely.

(He treads lightly on NATO's timidity in Afghanistan but has an understandable excuse: He lives in Brussels because his wife, Victoria Nuland, a former aide to Vice President Cheney, is the American ambassador to NATO).

It might be understandable if these excuses were coming out of the mouths of teenagers, but as most sexually active women know, you're just as likely to hear them coming out of the mouth of most any professional, college graduate and on any first, second or third date.

While that approach is understandable, there's still no excuse for such poorly designed questions as "What is your favorite season?" (how many possible answers could there be?), or "Who is the first President you voted for?" (easy to guess from your age).

But he too quickly implies that understanding these despicable actions is equivalent to making them understandable, that is, to making excuses for them.

The use of such a distancing device, with its built-in excuse for dramaturgical lapses, is understandable.

What isn't understandable is that there's always an excuse, somehow, not to allocate prevention funds which absolutely nobody disputes would save millions of dollars in the costs of ongoing illness.

Though their need for speed is understandable in these difficult economic times, it is no excuse to throw caution to the wind.

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