to use as an excuse

It was like an adolescent scavenger hunt, or a stunt which college fraternities might require for their initiation ceremonies, but I did not even have these to use as an excuse.
Elle était comme une chasse à éboueur adolescente, ou un arrêt que les fraternités d'université pourraient exiger pour leurs cérémonies de déclenchement, mais je n'ai pas même eu ces derniers à employer comme excuse.
The fact that there are no laws yet to set the regulations, conditions and methods of exercising such rights is not a basis for a state agency to use as an excuse to deny them the protection.
Le fait qu'il n'existe encore pas de lois établissant les normes, les conditions et les façons d'exercer ces droits n'est pas une raison pour qu'une agence de l’État dénie cette protection.
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