1.   It was a poor excuse... but I would have jumped at anything by that time.

2.   But Tories have continued to attack, saying the scheme is a poor excuse for real pedestrianisation.

3.   Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

4.   Burns said those are poor excuses.

5.   But those reasons are unwarranted and poor excuses for not signing the bill, officials here said Wednesday.

6.   Gordon also kissed the bricks, but not before laying down that poor excuse of a burnout.

7.   Margie was unloading groceries from her car when she was startled by a large, scrawny, very muddy dog that looked like a poor excuse for a greyhound.

8.   Prejudice and political cowardice are poor excuses for allowing more citizens to suffer from and die of AIDS, especially when effective interventions are cheap, safe and easy.

9.   Some became so lonely that they pandered to the masses with that poor excuse for an opiate known as fusion.