| For the council to say they are waiting for the outcome of pending developments in and around the town is a lame excuse. |
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| In other words, having your period is a totally lame excuse for skipping track practice. |
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| She cites his frequent absence on film shoots as a reason for the split-up, but I find that a completely lame excuse. |
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| She moaned some lame excuse to whoever she was talking with and walked with shaken pace towards the quiet parts of the flat. |
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| However, rather than giving some lame excuse for his non-participation, he's decided to lay it on the line. |
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| The following passage is not a lame excuse but an attempt to explain the situation and engage in a dialogue with you. |
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| This too me seems to be a lame excuse and the article an attempt to whitewash the failings of the Congress government. |
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| They boost returns for corporate elites on the lame excuse that they will use those returns to benefit the rest of us. |
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| Bella thought this was a completely lame excuse to avoid her. |
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| The lame excuse offered was that the meeting would get out of hand. |
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| He turned up at 3pm, with a lame excuse about having had a puncture. |
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| Better roads in cities that receive heavier rains are testimony to the fact that blaming the rains is a lame excuse for poor quality of public works. |
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| This smug response is based on the lame excuse that the Liberals did nothing to create new child care spaces, so why should the Conservatives. |
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| The fear of generating more complaints about subsidies is the government's lame excuse for inaction, but we know that the government has an American study that debunks that myth. |
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