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Example sentences for: excuses

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If all politics is a lie We tell ourselves, if People who think they are Conservative have horrible Anarchic lives, raping children And people who think They are radical, and Tell you so, typically, Are repressed, authoritarian, and Thinly frigid in their Personal bearings, Leaving the world on both sides To be divided up between Aggressive territorial types Finding ideological excuses To kill other people's children-- If all this is patently, Obviously so, so that Only poetry, and not Politics can save us-- Is there any hope for us then?
If there's any moral to be taken from this story, it should be "No more excuses."
Graham has been a presidential suck-up since the Eisenhower administration and still makes excuses for Bill Clinton's alleged philandering.
All this sounds stirring until you hear Clinton's less-than-idealistic excuses for the war's shortcomings.
Love is also a landlord, and some of his tenants, who no longer receive guaranteed monthly welfare checks, are offering "excuses" for missing the rent.