11.   That is a poor excuse.

12.   The wagon has a poor excuse for a roof rack, two rails down the sides, but who carries stuff on a sunroof?

13.   To Coughlin, injuries were a poor excuse for missing practice.

14.   While Hopkins was at least trying to make history by fighting his way into the final, Holmes was making himself a poor excuse for a middleweight champ.

15.   You are a poor excuse for a Marine.

16.   A year ago, the Colorado Rapids were a poor excuse for a professional sports team.

17.   But for a country which once had an unlimited pool of talent, it was a poor excuse.

18.   But that is a poor excuse, given the rarity of the consensus necessary for the United Nations to take action, Gourevitch said.

19.   It was a poor excuse.