Sentence examples for useful excuse from inspiring English sources

Critics of the government charge that it is effectively using Mr. Milosevic has a useful excuse for any inefficiencies or failures.

Cynics wonder if the furore now gives politicians in Madrid a useful excuse.Other politicians may indeed use the scandal to justify cutting back on commitments, not just to the Global Fund but to aid in general.

A useful excuse not to see Rodney.

Critics, however, say the Russian aggression is a useful excuse for the president, a billionaire steeped in the old ways of doing business.

But a good bit of unacceptable behaviour from a celebrity, company or total stranger can provide a useful excuse to vent, or maybe even cause displacement, where anger about some unworkable situation is redirected elsewhere.

Whether the Liberal Democrats' opposition is really all that stands in the prime minister's way or whether it provides him with a useful excuse to deny his backbenchers is not clear.

Up until now, long unresolved international frameworks and stalled negotiations have served as a useful alibi to excuse the implementation deficits relating to previously agreed measures, mainly in the climate finance arena.

It did not, for instance, show Hasan Yousefi-Eshkevari, a journalist and moderate cleric, shouting down the protesters disrupting his speech, or Jamileh Kadivar, the only parliamentary deputy among the accused, storming out of the conference hall in disgust.The conference, it seems, was useful as an excuse to lay low uppity reformists.

Also, my little sister is 22, so that's getting less useful as an excuse.

I'm not suggesting that gigantic books are useful only as an excuse for avoiding responsibility.

The pre-built excuses are useful enough – a car being towed or a missing pet, for example.