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Example sentences for: excuse

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Republicans, after all, do not want to balance the budget just because it will make their accountant constituency happy--they want to balance the budget because it is an excuse to cut the federal government, which, if you are a Republican, is the definition of "responsible."
The fact that Friedman agrees with these guys is no excuse for neglecting challenges from such skeptics as George Soros, Jeffrey Sachs, Paul Krugman, or the aforementioned Barber, none of whose views he considers.
Car magazines and auto commercials continue to not merely excuse but celebrate behavior that kills almost as many Americans annually as died in the Vietnam War during its bloodiest year, while maiming and injuring thousands more.
He did nothing about scandals at the FSB (the successor agency to the KGB) when he was its director, and "[a]s prime minister, his only claim to fame has been to seize upon a truly bad situation in Chechnya as an excuse to wage an imperial war, one that punishes civilians in the name of protecting them."
Lest anyone contemplate the convenience of this excuse, Bush spun it as a sacrifice.