Sentence examples similar to with a excuse from inspiring English sources

They have even invented a new term, "push-back time", to provide themselves with an excuse.

"But everybody has come up with an excuse for not taking her".

Whenever Ms Johnston suggested meeting up, "Williams" – or rather, Stephen Grott – always came up with an excuse.

Mr. Glazer, though, at least provides them with an excuse for the gathering.

The US revoked his passport, providing Russia with an excuse to hold him in transit.

During the Ahmadinejad era, this provided opponents in the west with an excuse for rigidity.

Which caused an oncoming waiter to chastise me with an "Excuse me, sir!" My Zumba origins are humble.

Yet your only arguments are that it provides Fidel Castro with an excuse for the country's failed economy.

September 11th, say ordinary Iraqis, provided the United States with an excuse to step up its persecution of the Iraqi people.

She contended that Mr. Lhota had "just come up with an excuse for not keeping up with the workload".

It provides the disapproving relatives with an excuse: "It's not my fault, I didn't raise 'em wrong".