1.   We cannot make this minority a convenient excuse to turn our backs.

2.   The power failure was a convenient excuse to leave work early.

3.   Being famous is a convenient excuse.

4.   But Democratic and Republican aides said that the upcoming Senate debate gave the committee a convenient excuse to recast its focus.

5.   But congressional aides said that they had never expected Lay would appear and that he was looking for a convenient excuse to miss the hearings.

6.   But that was just a convenient excuse.

7.   Certain factions of America have glommed on to this as a convenient excuse.

8.   Critics call that a convenient excuse.

9.   Do you always have a convenient excuse when your friends ask you to go fishing?

10.   Explanations like the onset of darkness or problems coordinating with U.N. forces should be viewed as no more than convenient excuses for not using air power more decisively.