Sentence examples for whose excuse from inspiring English sources

The last word belongs to Peter Mathews, an Irish parliamentarian whose excuse for defying the stay-at-home diktat perhaps best illustrates the depth of the current crisis.

I am gratified that Representative Henry A. Waxman regrets shaming a man struggling to save a legacy, and shamelessly thanking an ex-cop whose excuse for selling illegal drugs was that he did what others wanted.

He certainly has poor leadership from his superior Chief Spicuzza, whose excuse was a cliché: "Hindsight is 20/20," when she was hired to have foresight.

Earlier this summer, several exotic dancers in San Diego filed a lawsuit after being allegedly mistreated by local police, whose excuse for detaining and photographing them was that they were checking identification.

Among those whose excuses were found wanting was a young high-school teacher who felt that his presence at the school was urgently needed.

They have an old manager, whose excuses are the only things that are more tired than his tactics, and who hope and (most) players are avoiding the club like they would a punch in the face from Andre the Giant – if you saw even a glimpse of their last two games against Nottingham Forest and Manchester City you'd understand why.

Or perhaps they are channeling Donald Rumsfeld, whose famous excuse for his failure to secure post-invasion Iraq, "Stuff happens," could be the epitaph of our age.

It's called "Mr. Church," and it was directed by Bruce Beresford, whose only excuse is that he was (ir)responsible for making "Driving Miss Daisy," in 1989, and his ideas about race are stuck in 1948.

Heading the film's jaundiced portrait gallery of Hollywood honchos is the blase, slightly gone-to-seed star Bob Barrenger Alec Baldwinn), a careless lothario whose unblushing excuse for indulging his taste for under-age girls is that a man has to have a hobby.

And yes, the veil can be alienating to people trying to communicate with the person wearing it; it is sometimes (but not always) worn involuntarily, and (for me) is an expression of devotion to a non-existent supernatural being whose worship excuses all kinds of barbarism.

Tech isn't some out-of-the-way industry, whose poor excuses for a lack of self-reflexivity we can ignore (like a racist, cantankerous grandfather).