Sentence examples for were given an excuse from inspiring English sources

Those who think governments were given an excuse not to act are "heroes of the counterfactual", he argues.

Those of us who were relatively unaffected should be grateful that we were given an excuse for idleness usually reserved for schoolchildren on a snow day — and also for the fact that Erin Trieb's "go bag" included her iPhone, which she used to record a portrait of the meeting between New York and Irene.

I found it liberating to be given an excuse to ditch some of my backbreaking chores.

And no one in the crowd is given an excuse to throw bricks.

American men should not be given an excuse for not discussing annual prostate cancer screening with their health care professional.

We were given a lot of excuses, but the truth was simply that one of our sister publications, a magazine called Impacto, was very critical of the government then.

Walker's "drafting error" excuse was given a "pants on fire" by Politifact.

I was given a choice, and I chose to excuse myself.

Public health interventions, including messages about alcohol use, could strengthen preexisting beliefs about the possibility of alcohol leading to risky sexual encounters: care should be taken that young people are not given an excuse for engaging in unprotected sex [ 24].

But it's OK because it's given me an excuse to show you an extreme close-up of these strap-ons that turned my vagina into a Slip 'N Slide.

The problem with being in India for my birthday is that it's given everyone an excuse not to buy me a present – or to get me something I didn't want in the first place.