| A spokesman says he must appear, that there's been no request or permission granted excusing his presence. |
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| I staggered to my feet, and making excuses I rushed out the door, feeling very silly, because I was excusing myself to nobodies. |
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| Quick, someone create a diversion so I can make a break for the toilet and scribble a note from my mum excusing me from class. |
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| Such a statement can only lend support to those who would accuse her of blaming victims and excusing batterers. |
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| Loving him does not mean excusing him or even exempting him from punishment. |
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| There are prisoners from Louisiana excusing their crimes by blaming boredom. |
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| I smile at them brightly, a shadow of the girl they always wanted, and run up the stairs, excusing myself from the table. |
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| Lexi was glad beyond her own realization when her father stood and ushered his guests into a social room, excusing Alexis for the night. |
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| Needless to say, I put on my best smile and shook each of their hands, answering their questions politely before excusing myself to my room. |
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| He does not make himself anonymous by excusing his errors and sins as functions of inauspicious circumstances or bad social influences. |
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| Apart from our penchant for ritual, in matters of corruption it is our fondness of explaining and excusing the crime that is most visible. |
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| Many an ensemble has stumbled over the play's pitfalls, the stumblers typically excusing their more awkward moments by evoking Brecht's theory of alienation. |
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| Without in any way excusing horrible atrocities against civilians, it is crucial to understand the use of violence, even terror, in terms that go beyond a single individual. |
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| In my opinion, excusing complicit parties excuses rape itself. |
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| A magistrate in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, spared a prosecutor's vocal chords last week by excusing him from reading out a local drunk's previous convictions. |
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| Many a proposed Utopia had the fatal flaw of excusing and justifying the slackening of men's efforts to straighten out their immediate world. |
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| I'm not excusing anything George Bush did in his politics, but I rate people on how I meet them. |
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| A failure to provide proper notice to a potential witness may result in the arbitrator excusing the witness from attending at the hearing. |
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| There is no excusing them saying that because China does it too, that is acceptable. |
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| She did say, however, that she would ensure that the prisoner was not harming himself before excusing herself. |
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| The trouble, it seems, is that many normal people have taken this a dangerous step further and started excusing themselves. |
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| In the years to follow his attempts at mitching involved forging letters from his mother to the Patrician brother excusing his presence at school. |
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| Before excusing herself from the meeting Council passed second and third reading to the Zoning By-Law 063-09 as well as a resolution for the Special Services Levies. |
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| Without excusing the abuse, the women assume that it had something to do with their menfolk's sense of frustration at the poor hand life had dealt them. |
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| If greed is the prime directive-in my analysis-I get the sense that this whole framework is like a legalistic, very complex way of excusing an addiction. |
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| This was quite a disappointment, and I left him, excusing myself for having bothered him and having put him ill at ease over having to converse with me in front of his fellow bishops. |
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| I must say, it breaks my heart today, as a citizen of Northern Ireland, as a citizen of the United Kingdom, 95 people are holding letters excusing the murder of 200 people. |
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| None of this means the balance of costs and benefits might not be in favor of excusing any individual offender who is inculpable. |
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| I am in no way excusing the tactics used by the IRA in Northern Ireland, but the fact is that they engaged in terrorist acts and the government said in no uncertain terms that it would never negotiate with terrorists. |
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| I can assure the honourable Member that is not a way of excusing ourselves from the obligations we have to that part of the world, to that soon-to-be country. |
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| In my view, part of the problem is an ineffective regulatory process that is too aligned to the industry and too excusing of continuing high prices, even when the price of oil has radically fallen. |
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| Will he stop excusing the incompetence of his ministers? |
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| Nevertheless, understanding them does not imply excusing them. |
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| Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. |
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| In the islands he captured some inoffensive natives and returned with them as captives to Sagres, excusing his failure by recounting the dangers of the trip. |
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| Florence... had, all through, repaid the agony of slight and coldness, and dislike, with patient unexacting love, excusing him, and pleading for him, like his better angel! |
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