| In extreme cases, officials might seize upon a technical rule violation and use it as an excuse to disqualify them. |
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| Recycled Malthusianism has long been used as an excuse for simplifying complex social problems into tidy biological equations. |
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| The excuse of national legitimacy gave way to a clan logic of the brigands' share-out of the African booty. |
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| Use the cold weather as an excuse to start a new hobby, like home decorating or woodworking. |
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| In truth, the thugs merely use football as their excuse to indulge their mania for mindless violence. |
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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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| There is absolutely no excuse or justification for such a backward and undemocratic step being taken. |
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| At any other time it would have sounded like the leader of an unelectable party throwing in the towel, or finding an excuse for his own failure. |
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| It is a shallow, angry, self-absorbed, beautifully made excuse for a movie. |
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| How dare this miserable excuse for a Federal Government chastise any other country over pulling their troops out of Iraq. |
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| It would be another excuse for Sir Marcus to announce all of his eldest daughter's perfect traits and mannerisms. |
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| If you're a shopaholic like me, it's a great excuse to exercise the old credit card! |
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| I figured they'd be more likely to talk to me if I gave them an excuse to chew me out. |
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| Basically what we have here is a nice, sentimental excuse for lots and lots of song and dance numbers. |
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| I had to quietly excuse myself from a Vinyasa class with mutterings of trick knee. |
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| If you're good friends with people throwing the kegger, you have no excuse not to go short of a wedding or funeral. |
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| On the whole, I give him a lot of points for trying to ask the right questions and can excuse him when he doesn't bat a thousand. |
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| My excuse is that I'm exactly the sort of bourgeois, entrepreneurial Middle Englander that New Labour aims to please. |
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| Just because they can point to the prior administration and say they took wads of Enron money does nothing to excuse the republicans. |
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| Plus I am kinda wacked out on pain meds so excuse me if this only makes sense to the pink elephant who is helping me write it. |
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| Please excuse the typos and misspellings, I sometimes forget to spell-check when I'm outraged. |
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| We should be wary of dangers to our liberty and privacy with the excuse of security. |
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| An invitation to a formal dance or ball is the perfect excuse to indulge in your fairytale fantasies. |
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| I see it as an excuse to leave the confines of my quartier and try other bakeries. |
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| Appraisal time is upon us, and all team leaders will have been instructed to find the slightest excuse to mark people down. |
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| Culinary relativism is no longer an excuse for preferring gefilte fish to seafood quenelles. |
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| This doesn't really excuse my quietness on the blogging front, but it goes part-way to explaining it. |
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| But if anyone has an excuse to be in the throes of depression it's Harwell. |
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| The plaintiff issued a special demurrer to that plea, alleging it furnished no legal justification or excuse for the defendant's action. |
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| Please also excuse the abundance of randomly inserted comments and quips which I think are witty but are probably not. |
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| Maybe this deceit will become the main semi-official excuse for disregarding the allied victory. |
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| We should not imitate that by seizing on bad metaphysics as an excuse for ignoring valid scientific observations. |
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| It's like they're trying to find an excuse for having arrested him, ignoring the actual facts. |
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| Loneliness simply isn't an excuse for what Jones had been contemplating for some considerable time. |
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| But that's no excuse for overruling a law that not only is legitimate, but also extraordinarily popular. |
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| Habitat is manipulated to increase goose numbers and therefore create the excuse that hunting is needed to control overpopulation. |
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| And it's great despite the fact that much of it is, if you'll excuse my belletrism, kind of sucky. |
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| One British athlete who could legitimately claim to have an excuse for performing poorly here is Jonathan Edwards. |
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| That mediocre, built-on-the-cheap excuse for a bypass is overdue for an upgrade. |
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| I certainly don't think of it as a cop-out to excuse oneself from helping others. |
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| The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality. |
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| He's really upset, not ready to kick off just yet, but I'm not going to give him an excuse to start a barney by turning my back. |
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| I contemplated asking the clerk to excuse James because it was only his second day of work experience, but thought better of it. |
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| It's the best excuse to start your own slips from market sweet potatoes sprouted at home. |
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| And as a seafaring nation, what better excuse than celebrating the ocean itself? |
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| They were unlucky, but that doesn't excuse the ungracious manner of their exit. |
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| Their only real purpose is to provide a flimsy excuse to make a recommendation. |
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| There is one group that wants to use democracy as an excuse for political payback and create a theocracy not a democracy. |
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| Well excuse me, Alex, but it's you that seems to be the one making an issue of this. |
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| Some firms are dragging their heels hiding behind the excuse that more guidance is due from the FSA in the next few weeks. |
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| The teacher was Ok, though, and she accepted my excuse of being lost without a murmur. |
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| To excuse all production defects on the ground that they were undiscoverable would be to emaciate the potential of the Directive. |
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| Mrs M would have to excuse herself from the dinner table to vomit undigested food, and this caused her embarrassment. |
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| It's National Chocolate Week, which means you now have an excuse to eat your body weight in cocoa solids. |
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| But later he began to put off payment, giving the excuse that business was slack. |
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| The upside of this is that it's a good excuse to ditch the usual skylarking. |
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| They're a great excuse to snuggle up in front of the telly wrapped in a fleecy blanket with a hot water bottle and a hot toddy. |
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| They made up an excuse about losing the pants to Dill in a game of strip poker played with matches. |
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| It has been there for hundreds of years, and a temporary blip in the finances is no excuse for throwing it all away. |
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| What ever excuse the school uses to lock away a child's inhaler is no excuse in my book. |
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| Yet what Petronzi knew was that many others would use the Heysel link as an excuse to start trouble. |
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| These SOBs use any excuse to bleed physicians dry and you have no recourse to fight because it is their game with their rules. |
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| One excuse for not reviewing the important details of a new building is being dazzled by the architect. |
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| Michele saw Mr. Coltrane excuse himself from the crowd of executives, and wave a hand to her to signal her to join him. |
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| Unfortunately, the wedding is only a flimsily constructed excuse for Stifler to stumble from one lame sight gag to the next. |
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| Mrs Conti doubtless had a lively night. Competitive eating has, excuse the pun, become very big over the last two decades. |
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| Paisley should voice his support for the men of the cloth who will bear witness any disarmament and take their word as, excuse the pun, gospel. |
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| There should be no excuse for failure because colossal sums of money and other resources have been pumped into the Authority. |
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| This anonymous critic mistakenly used free speech as an excuse for committing a hate crime. |
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| For a long time, it looks like this early '60s skin flick will merely be an excuse to show pert particulars for untold moments of monotony. |
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| At least in that time, the excuse of living under a brutal regime could at least be used. |
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| I raised the issue with Adam, suggesting that mufti sounded far more like a goat-type animal than an excuse to not wear business clothes. |
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| It looks more like an ethical excuse to get out of a loss-making business that's not really going anywhere. |
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| Coming up with an honest excuse will help cushion the blow if you've got unpleasant news to convey. |
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| In sport as in music, comfort in numbers is no excuse for unacceptable behaviour. |
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| Please excuse the lack of in-depth analysis of this story, but it's hard to type when your entire body is convulsed with hysterical laughter. |
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| The product offered is merely the excuse to legitimize the real and probably illegal moneymaking scam. |
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| It would seem that it has become a catch-all excuse and is employed even when not applicable. |
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| In the post-Enron environment, there can be no excuse for the lack of effective fraud risk management. |
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| There are levels, if you'll excuse the expression, that we haven't plumbed yet in our explorations of this game system. |
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| But if you use that as an excuse to inflict pain on them, then you are sick and sadistic and motivated solely by bigotry. |
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| The excuse was usually that, although restored to fitness, the illness could strike again at any moment. |
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| It seemed easier to avoid and ignore when I had the excuse that school kept me too busy to deal with it. |
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| They do have a problem with the procurement of future hardware, but that is no excuse for weakening our current defence capability. |
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| Players use their arms for leverage when they jump, but that's no excuse for swinging their elbows with the intention of injuring an opponent. |
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| The junta used lese-majesty as an excuse to stage the military coup that toppled Thaksin Shinawatra's government. |
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| While Wes and his mom set up the camper, I made an excuse about having the trots so I could scope out the campgrounds for babes. |
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| However, there is never an excuse for capitulating and surrendering the public interest to the dictates of the market. |
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| It's an excuse for a kind of intimacy between the members of the band, and between the band and the audience. |
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| If there wasn't religion then these evil toerags would find another excuse for beating each other. |
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| That won't last, though, since there is now no excuse for us not getting the room finished off. |
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| This show is really just an excuse to rehash some old jokes, routines and toe-curling audience singalongs within a theatrical format. |
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| At least the achievements gave middle England an excuse to stay up late and crack a bottle of Chardonnay. |
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| At least the teens have their youthful naivete as an excuse for auditioning. |
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| New Labour has gone through one excuse after another over the last four years to avoid renationalising the rail industry. |
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| It may have been opening night jitters, but that doesn't excuse the remainder of the cast from constantly tripping over their lines. |
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| She rejoined her friends with complaints of an upset stomach as the excuse for her lengthy absence. |
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| Do excuse me, I'm off to put more laundry in, beat my rugs, grab some lunch, and maybe pop down to the shops. |
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| We'll be celebrating it together in spirit, and at least it'll give y'all an excuse to drink yerselves blind! |
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| It doesn't make you any more special than the rest of us, or excuse you for being so beastly. |
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| The title's just an excuse to make a bad movie that pretends to be a spoof when it's just a rehash of the most formulaic rubbish imaginable. |
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| Here's an excuse to let a section of lawn grow tall and go to hay, or plant some of it to alfalfa, red clover or oats. |
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| There can be absolutely no excuse for the government to avoid reforming these corrupt institutions. |
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| Somehow Nicky kept finding mistletoes all around the house, so he had an excuse to kiss me. |
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| The fact that the study included the beginning of a new Republican administration may excuse a slight tilt toward Republican guests. |
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| Ff the teacher gives you a rark up, you've got an excuse to settle down to work. |
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| But on what basis does a government excuse its meddling into the private financial affairs of its citizens? |
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| What a feeble excuse for a song that is, a classic non-quorate affair covering three notes throughout. |
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| This is hardly surprising, since the white man's burden has long been recognized as an excuse for the most vile exploitation. |
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| One ray of hope is that the circumstances of the attack would give the Socialist Party a possible excuse for flip-flopping were they so inclined. |
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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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| Now, excuse me if I'm being a bit thick here but haven't both of these ideas been around for donkeys' years? |
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| All recycling will be collected from the kerbside, so there will be no excuse whatsoever for people who claim that recycling is too much effort. |
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| In some urban shopping centres cinemas are another excuse for patronising the local shops. |
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| Please excuse me for obtruding my weakness and my finitude, here, into your daily lives. |
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| All good teenage rebellion rejects rational thought but needs an excuse for that rage. |
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| But he has a better excuse for holding to this wrongheaded view than do his colleagues. |
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| It has come up with the plausible, although ridiculous, excuse that it has software problems with 103,000 handsets and so has had to recall them. |
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| There is no excuse for foot-dragging, no excuse for trading on the patience of his party, the country or his successor. |
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| Louis had a defeated look on his face and Henry was dancing around him in a pathetic excuse for a victory dance. |
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| Other people's viciousness, gossip, and vengefulness are no excuse for you to respond in kind. |
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| After they had finished their pathetic excuse for a meal, they continued on their way. |
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| Granted, this kind of musical satire is an acquired taste, but his adaptation is little more than an excuse for clever rhymes and in-jokes. |
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| Every now and then, we in the gaming community are presented with a pathetic excuse for a video game, a console port. |
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| I hope this doesn't come out as a pathetic excuse of why I haven't updated in a while. |
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| It ill-behooves the president's partisans to use the sheer magnitude of their screw-ups as an excuse not to discuss them. |
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| That article was the most pathetic excuse for him to showcase his infantile vocabulary. |
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| It would eliminate much of the excuse law enforcement has for racial profiling. |
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| The commonly-held belief is that bank holiday weekends are just an excuse to laze around, be generally aimless and not do very much at all. |
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| The judge bought the excuse though and sent him packing with nothing but a warning. |
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| She said such intolerances were being used as an excuse for weight gain, instead of cutting down on food and doing more exercise. |
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| I gave it a go and this year I have had about 50 apricots on my pathetic excuse for a tree. |
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| While this is not an excuse for a man to sin sexually, his wife is accountable for her part in the marriage bed. |
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| He covers his smile with a hand and examines her pathetic excuse for a tent. |
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| Then we get this paltry, pathetic excuse for a bill, and we are all supposed to become excited about it. |
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| As I come into town, I pass the local mechanic's place, a pathetic excuse for a garage. |
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| A text purporting to describe a battle may have been composed to glorify the victor or excuse the loser. |
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| With my excuse firmly in hand, I refocused my attention on what Wei was saying. |
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| Er, well excuse me, but what's left if those areas of your game aren't up to scratch? |
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| She only cycles at walking pace, so what excuse has she for not obeying the law and dismounting? |
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| So what excuse does the council have for not allowing food waste in the green bins, it all rots down? |
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| The whole school would come out and participate in what was an excuse to miss class. |
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| Directors can no longer plead ignorance, or whatever other excuse they choose. |
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| My birthday seemed to be the perfect excuse and I mentioned it in passing to my husband who, in turn, booked a table. |
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| If you wrap your derision in the flag, you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do. |
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| There is now enormous choice in the current account market, so there is no excuse to sit on an account which is not offering the best deal. |
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| Now I simply hoped to keep him busy with minor editorial details, the excuse for the three of us to rendezvous in Aspen. |
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| But how dare you use my carefully cultivated unapproachability as an excuse for your bone idleness! |
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| Really, my excuse is that I've been really busy and I was writing a story for my good friend's b-day. |
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| I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity. |
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| This is the excuse you needed to buy a beautiful earthenware tian made in the South of France. |
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| Whenever an actor is asked to slip into a toga he sees it as an excuse to go all swivel-eyed and bonkers. |
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| We are currently at 13,000, excuse me, make that 14,200 feet above sea level, looking out over a sea of clouds. |
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| Clark called the remarks hateful and ignorant, and said there can be no excuse for such comments. |
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| Athletics, on the other hand, was an excuse to mince around a field in a vest and carry out a bunch of pointless exercises. |
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| You'll have to excuse my rather bland choice of words in the initial sentence. |
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| Without being particularly inventive, it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places, draw swords and engage in smart wordplay. |
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| It is easy to excuse incompetence, it is unacceptable to pardon impropriety. |
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| Over the years I have seen a procession of these knuckle-draggers pass through and holding qualifications does not excuse one from this list. |
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| Forget all about rowdy post-wedding dances where an eightsome is an excuse to throw women around, reels are danced energetically but correctly. |
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| Now, excuse me, I'm a man of the world, and I, for one, find this a rather worrying development. |
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| So pardon my sneaker color alert system, and excuse my laughter at the expense of ready.gov. |
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| Still, this is no excuse for ending the effort to seek the understanding of Chinese and Koreans. |
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| An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. |
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| Ordinarily I would have the excuse that I had to work early, but Thursdays I started late. |
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| This brings up the latter-day chestnut which is now commonly utilised as an excuse to keep walkers out. |
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| Just remember, training is never a bad idea, and you can use a new hire as an excuse to refresh the skills of longstanding staffers, too. |
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| But Gee uses this as an excuse to replay some tired stereotypes which undermine the genuine satirical quality of her writing. |
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| That is his alibi and excuse for doing absolutely nothing apart from parking himself into a limousine and taking his pay. |
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| One suspects that it has been mainly thought of as a political alibi and an excuse for supervision of the police. |
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| I sincerely believe it is more of an excuse for inaction than a valid justification. |
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| Whether or not the main quest is more than just an excuse to introduce cool new gear, it's still fun to wander around lackadaisically. |
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| Tensing as they approached gradually, she mentally rehearsed her excuse in her head. |
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| If you'll excuse me, isn't the singular personal pronoun a more useful device in that sentence? |
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| I think that is a reasonable excuse to drop what we are doing and bake a batch of madeleines, don't you? |
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| Vampires in particular were a great excuse for Victorian writers to allude to sexuality, which they couldn't mention in any other way. |
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| The plot seems more of an excuse for actors to chew on their roles than for a coherently presented story. |
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| In fact, excuse me for saying so, but I'm absolutely more ravishing than you. |
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| In other words, having your period is a totally lame excuse for skipping track practice. |
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| A bad law should not be an excuse for grandfathering such outrageous economic favoritism. |
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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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| I misspoke primarily out of ignorance, but that does not excuse misspeaking. |
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| If it's a good excuse they get one light karate chop to the forehead if it's not they get a chop to the head and stomach. |
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| The Act party really needs to ditch this hopeless excuse for a free-market advocate. |
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| It was a lamebrain excuse on behalf of the Bahamian government to try to cut down on expenditure. |
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| The Western channels have, at least, the excuse of subscribing to a long history of supremacism. |
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| I won't tell you what I think about the yellow-bellied, spineless, poor excuse for a man. |
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| There is no excuse for wearing real fur with so many humane alternatives now available. |
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| Well excuse me for interrupting your precious mind-numbing serial with actual news! |
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| To excuse that use of his name by saying the spies were not supposed to use real names is begging the question. |
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| This transference was regarded as a right of conquest, but the excuse was sometimes offered that the artists concerned were of German origin. |
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| It gave Emily an excuse to sit at her easel all day, sketching and painting. |
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| Although I had the valuable excuse when it went wrong that this was the first time I'd ever done it. |
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| At Hallowe'en I'd look vaguely spooky, and on Bonfire Night I'd have some papier mache excuse for a Guy. |
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| The company is the target of several class-action lawsuits, and cites this as an excuse for stonewalling. |
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| Disorder provides an excuse to rescind liberties in the name of restoring calm. |
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| This could easily be an excuse for lazy writing, but I felt enough smart moves were made to forgive the bad ones as mistakes by the characters. |
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| I have always begged Nick to teach me to play the guitar but every time he has an excuse not to. |
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| With a colleague, you could excuse yourself for a bathroom break or to make an important phone call. |
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| He'd waved them aside with the excuse that he must have caught a bug. |
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| I know he's madly in love with her and she goes and shatters his heart in tiny little pieces by using that age old excuse of hers that she doesn't have the time. |
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| His obsessive knee-jerk reaction of jumping onto the country's retaliatory bandwagon without a by-your-leave demonstrates what an excuse for a leader we have. |
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| This is just like a court delivering its ruling without listening to evidence and submissions by the concerned parties under the excuse of public request. |
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| Except that when that happens, I conveniently find some bogus excuse or lame technicality to avoid paying your damages or to weasel my way into only paying part of them. |
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| I have no excuse but a lusty eye and a belly full of Dutch courage. |
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| Night after night I heard the same excuse from every officer, until he is caught in the act of violating the restraining order by a police officer, no arrest can be made. |
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| The only excuse might be confusing it with Hama, the site of the infamous 1982 massacre. |
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| This is the standard defence often used in trying to excuse otherwise often outrageous behaviour by sporting teams on tour or on pre season or post season trips. |
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| And the criticism is always poorly packaged as concern or some sad excuse for a compliment. |
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| As it was, the cowhand's intrusion gave him the excuse to punch someone. |
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| It must be hard for her to hurt her son, but the pain I have to suffer from my disease is pretty bad just now so please, God, excuse me for the odd word in vain. |
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| It's really just a good excuse to wander the winding streets and shady squares of the glorious Old Town and the Mazarin Quarter doing a spot of window-shopping. |
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| Now if you excuse me, it's our turn to ride the Ferris wheel, so bye-bye. |
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| For those who do not trust the government, it is an excuse for ranting and raving instead of legislating compromised reform. |
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| Plus, this sorry excuse for a show represents a sort of cultural nadir when it comes to reality television. |
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| Her mouth worked furiously trying to come up some excuse for her outburst. |
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| Some will undoubtedly start blaming the people and repeat the worn out excuse that the talk of freedom and democracy is futile for such a people as ours. |
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| I call it a good excuse for geeky types to get together and kvetch. |
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| Next time you're out to dinner, order the most expensive meal, excuse yourself to the ladies' room, slip out the kitchen door and never, ever, look back. |
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| The spread could be dismissed as little more than an excuse to run a heart-warming photo of the happy family. |
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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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| For me, it was a fun excuse to tour the real Doha since I was already in the neighborhood. |
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| Instead of driving to the new hot spot or hopping out of their cars to do foot patrols, some uniform cops used the program as an excuse to idle in their cruisers. |
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| Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online professionals. |
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| When I got back to the office the guy from Chubb was in the building testing the fire alarms, which gave me all the excuse I needed to shoot through. |
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| She flipped me over, pulled down my bikini and without any word of an excuse me or a shake of the hand she had stuck a thermometer up my back passage. |
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| Actually, I don't think they physically cooked anything, they just stood around and watched their recipes being mangled by the in-house excuse for a chef. |
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| The Government cannot use the economic downturn as an excuse to backtrack on assistance promised to the disabled in next month's budget, a lobby group declared yesterday. |
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| It gives them an excuse to treat the hostages badly, and God knows it's bad enough just to be taken hostage and to be confined in some filthy room and maybe blindfolded. |
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| But what makes this weekend off so much more special than the rest is the fact that we have an excuse to scoff countless numbers of chocolate Easter eggs. |
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| If like me, you tended to avoid art house movies because you thought they were just an excuse to show some jubblies bouncing around, well stop right now and give them a try. |
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| If the case that is about to be made turns out to be persuasive, let us try to treat it as an opportunity to up our game, not an excuse for another Scottish rammy. |
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| What I do think is that the US gov. is viciously exploiting this event as an excuse to carry out all sorts of sketchy activity, both in its internal and foreign policies. |
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| For those who trust the government, these informational lacunas are an excuse for inaction. |
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| But now the community dance club claim the fact they did not patrol the door for a short spell on December 13 is being used as an excuse to boot them out. |
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| Push, barge, I'm more important than you, get out of my way, it's your fault, no I'm not saying excuse me thank you or sorry, or acknowledging your presence. |
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| This is the perennial excuse of tinpot dictators the world over. |
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| So, whatever the weather, there is no excuse for bored toddlers or teens. |
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| The truth hurts, but that's no excuse for trying to shoot the messenger. |
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| Whenever the tax on alcohol or tobacco is raised, the old excuse is trotted out that it's to cover health costs and discourage people from harmful behaviour. |
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| But that is no excuse for treating the scientist like a child who does not know what is good for him and must be protected by the parental arm of PC Plod. |
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| It answers their need for an excuse to go straight, while not at the same time surrendering to the morality of a society they believe has wronged them deeply. |
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| Republicans should not use this as an excuse to escalate further, now that the main threat of retaliation has been removed. |
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| Don't use the excuse of being hard up as a reason for not doing it. |
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| The most bankrupt excuse is that these events took place a long time ago, eyewitness accounts may differ, and it is best to let sleeping dogs lie. |
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| The rather weak excuse some of them gave for their obvious enthusiasm was that it wasn't so much monarchism that they hated, but the British monarchy. |
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| And if you're deranged enough to forgo the spa treatments and the excuse to not wear real clothes for two days, there's golf, horse riding and mountain-biking on offer nearby. |
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| Or does the experience of documenting the event excuse them from active participation, allowing them to become an active arm's-length witness rather than passive participant. |
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| I sincerely wonder if the invention of the telephone was an equally convenient excuse for previously unattempted types of flirtation on the parts of bored spouses. |
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| Now there is no excuse for doggy's message to be left unattended. |
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| There is little or no excuse for round shoulders in healthy people. |
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| Stuart Wenham how about you give us a bit of a sense of how your work in photovoltaic research has plugged into the Olympic Games, excuse the pun? |
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| That excuse was suddenly blanked out by the image before him. |
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| At any other time she would have done the exact same, made an excuse as to why she didn't make him apologise, when in truth the reason was quite simple. |
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| An excuse to shop until you drop, drink to excess and make merry. |
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| Many women believe that it is their duty to accept, tolerate and excuse conditions and experiences that place them in danger so they can save a relationship. |
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| Such sentiments of animosity towards the church, the teaching establishment and tradition were excuse enough for the censors to ban the film in its entirety. |
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| It hasn't happened, and the excuse I hear most often now is that cost-cutting measures have resulted in the place being understaffed, understocked, and generally miserable. |
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| Many Syrians see the vetoes used to block a robust resolution as an excuse for inaction. |
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| It's really just an excuse to watch a woman undress, of course, but although lots of bizarre underthings get removed, she's still quite covered up by the end. |
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| Surely, being an old lady should be no excuse not to recognize His H.O.V.A. Highness. |
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| No, we can't let them squeak by with a flimsy excuse like that. |
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| Are Bonfire Night and Hallowe'en becoming an excuse for young people to cause problems and, if so, is this because of a lack of opportunities for young people? |
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| It will have occurred in one of the local borough support offices, where somebody has slipped up and not informed that officer, and there can be no excuse for it. |
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| Life has been a touch hectic, but I am reliably informed that that is no excuse for a lethargic manner, so I hope you'll accept my apologies on this matter. |
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| It doesn't have to be Armani, but there is no excuse for sloppiness. |
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| Why use that excuse to justify the continued existence of slavery? |
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| I finally begged off on some excuse and put down the controller. |
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| Promoting it can be good, for business, but be careful not to turn it into an excuse for customers to overindulge with shots of tequila and beer chasers. |
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| The president immediately arose, and with evident embarrassment, and many preliminary beg-pardons, said that he hoped the members of the club would excuse him. |
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| They had a big job to do in taking maintenance work back from numerous engineering companies, but that is no excuse for trampling over workers' employment rights. |
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| This Chinese New Year is the year of the goat, and is the perfect excuse to have a dance and listen to some of the finest music in the Northern Rivers. |
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| Anyway, their excuse was that my behavior was becoming too erratic, which is a hoot since they know better than anyone that it's all part of the Plan. |
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| She sighed heavily upon her straw pallet, playing deaf to Sophia's stories and seeking excuse to avoid expressing heartfelt gratitude for Laura's kindness. |
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| Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears. |
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| The government is increasingly accepting stress as an illness and as a result it is repeatedly and gratuitously used as an excuse for society to hide behind. |
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| I realise there can be no excuse for the misdelivery of mail which is clearly and correctly addressed and I would like to apologise for the concern you have been caused. |
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| Because reporters rarely write their own headlines and subheads, and all the trend-mongering takes place in the subhead of Hellmich's piece, we excuse her from any misconduct. |
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| Competitiveness is not a word that trips off the tongue lightly but that's no excuse for the government to all but ignore this vital factor in our economic success. |
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| There was no excuse for that, considering all their illustrious talent. |
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| I must not use my temperament as an excuse for immaturity or belligerence. |
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| He thought this was colourable, something invented after the event in order to give an excuse for not taking a man back who has been the subject of a reinstatement order. |
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| Why death is used as yet another excuse for mudslinging and party rhetoric. |
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| They may be housebreakers or criminals but I can excuse them. |
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| Christmas is of no use to anyone if it is an excuse for people to play at being petty tyrants, a danger especially in blended families where expectations differ. |
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| Too often, memoir seems to me an excuse to be fragmentary, incomplete, narratively non-rigorous. |
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| I will hound that poor excuse of a human being until he yells uncle or stops posting vapid, unproven horse nonsense that all of you seem to believe. |
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| Karl made some pathetic excuse about having to go to Croydon. |
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| The excuse that the authorities cannot stop it being vandalised is also a cop-out. |
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| His 'Attishoo' had been an excuse not only to get out a handkerchief, but a monkey nut too. |
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| Bul-gum is the Korean equivalent of 'TGIF', and is an excuse to down large volumes of soju on Friday evenings, CNN said. |
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| The union has accused the college of jumping the gun and using the current funding difficulties in further education as an excuse to make cuts. |
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| Fitness instructor Buffi Jashanmal said there is no excuse for not getting a good night's sleep. |
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| Baby-sitting your daughter the odd Friday or Saturday night could be the perfect excuse for them. |
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| Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs. |
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| Shopaholics really need no excuse but the Shopping Carnival at DLF Promenade is tempting enough for a few rounds of retail therapy. |
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| He criticized the prolonged presence of the NUP leader al-Sadiq al-Mahdi abroad saying he has no excuse for that. |
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