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Example sentences for: excuses

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Election Night Excuses
Also, the Times says that Benjamin Netanyahu assailed Yassir Arafat for encouraging terrorism, and Arafat accused Netanyahu of making excuses for the collapse of the peace process.
The script, meanwhile, is the stuff of bad two character plays, with spurious excuses for conflict (Boone storms out when Whale speaks tenderly of the naked, young men who once populated his pool) and a long, climactic monologue about a (fictional) wartime trauma that ostensibly shocked Whale into keeping his past under wraps.
"Election Night Excuses": William Saletan analyzes 20 classic postelection spins.
Thousands of U.S. journalists found excuses to spend the week there, playing up the possibilities of political confrontation and violence (China oafishly sent thousands of troops to show everyone who's the boss) before conceding that nothing was going to happen.