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Income inequality "cannot be an excuse for slowing the pace of structural reform" , he said.

This gave him solitude, an excuse for buying the huge amount of fertiliser he needed for the bomb, and a barn big enough to store it.

she was glad that she had an excuse for doing something in which she could , without scruple , forget her own grief.

If he has the money and no good excuse for not paying what he owes you, the only solution may be to take him to court.

Parsons did, indeed, invariably revert to shorts when a community hike or any other physical activity gave him an excuse for doing so.

waiting is not for you to coming back but only an excuse for me to right here.

If he'd said a "load of crap" or something similar I'd have had an excuse for ordering him from my office.

In any case, teething troubles with a few new members should not become an excuse for slamming the door on others.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

But I'm here today to say that difficulty is no excuse for complacency. Unease is no excuse for inaction.

MUSIC festivals are typically a great excuse for revellers to enjoy a bit of drunken debauchery.

Owing to its role and duty in modern social system, mass media even has no excuse for being absent in crisis.

He used his wife's birthday as a convenient excuse for not going to the meeting.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday that there was 'no excuse' for further delays in resuming gas supplies.

The point is, the market is still not been able to find a good excuse for a significant correction.

But there was no excuse for so many Democrats to go along with that message, including the leadership.

There is no excuse for pursuing financial reform as if other countries did not exist.

"It's a difficult task, " he said. "Yet the difficulty of this task is no excuse for avoiding it. "

The passage is being used, in part, as an excuse for the need for such a nationwide system, a nationwide test.

I tell TJ autism is not an excuse for not being able to do something, it's an explanation for why it's more of a struggle for us.

With all night school courses available, there is no excuse for not getting some sort of training.

I thought to myself that finding me to be such an innocent he had hit upon some excuse for demanding more.

Clearly there is no excuse for the millions he stole from people, but he always dealt with me fairly and I learnt from him.

There is no excuse for concealment, falsely report, drag, ready to accept the safety leadership instruction.

As I dragged my feet slowly down the sidewalk I tried to think of an excuse for being late home.

Is there ever really a good excuse for a husband to visit Thailand or San Francisco without his wife?

President Obama says, at a time of economic weakness and stubbornly-high U. S. unemployment, there is no excuse for delay.

But at least "mutual incomprehension" can no longer be offered as an excuse for failure.

It is bad for you to look for an excuse for your error.

A better way for outsiders to help is to ensure that concerns over radiation in Japanese products do not become an excuse for protectionism.

But I'm here today to say that difficulty is no excuse for complacency.

Los Muortos would be an admirable excuse for this, and upon the spot he resolved to go over to the Derrick ranch house, after all.

Finally, if you are estranged from your mother, Mother's Day provides a good excuse for trying to repair the relationship.

Labour accuse him of using the euro crisis as an excuse for poor growth but many voters seem to think it is a good one.

Now think about it, their attitude is so Taibuyinggai, and the face of student learning, how can a teacher to a meal as an excuse for it?

Needless to say, there is no excuse for this and I extend my sincerest apologies along with the attached check.

The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he'd urged Mr. Zelayer not to give the security forces an excuse for violence.

He gave as his excuse for being late that old chestnut about the train being delayed.

No civilization has any excuse for depriving a man or woman of his or her right to have babies.

If your debtor has money and no excuse for not paying what he owes you, the only solution may be to take him to court.

For her, government was nothing more than licensed robbery and altruism just an excuse for power-grabbing.

and uncertainty is no excuse for doing nothing, because that could be just as dangerous.

However, that is no excuse for a serious lapse in judgment, and I am very sorry that this has happened.

With the little magical implement at hand, it is not difficult for a man to find excuse for not writing letters and feel at ease.

She had become a necessity to his heart, his only pretext, his only excuse, for living.

Jn. 15: 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Other countries, though, have no excuse for committing the same error. Sensible sex laws are better than vengeful ones.

The recent bombs in the Indian capital, blamed on Pakistan, might have provided an easy excuse for India to cancel the summit.

He gave as his excuse for being late that old chestnutabout the train being delayed.

Some people raise concerns that talk of transitions is an excuse for indefinitely putting off the end of the welfare state.

Geography can no longer be used as an excuse for absolving itself of any responsibility in the region.

One excuse for such intransigence comes from the messy transition now taking place in the insurance markets.

"Sorry I'm late, but I got wasted last night" , would be an acceptable excuse for tardiness.

It's believed to be a very rare mutation, not an excuse for the rest of us who stay up too late.

That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.

I'm here to announce that King's Mufasa's on his way, so you'd better have a good excuse for missing the ceremony this morning.

Technically, it is quite straight forward, and quite frankly, there is no excuse for not being able to build a green complex properly.

He made an excuse for his having made a mistake.

Not really. To embroil the war with the settlement of such intractable disputes is to give an excuse for prevarication.

There really is no excuse for his decision to do these ego-driven deals at the prices he did them.

Jose Mourinho tried to refuse to use the internationals as an excuse for the performance, but he found it impossible.

I think the impossible is the lousiest excuse for others, but for me, it is the big beautiful eyes of opportunity staring right at me.

His excuse for not coming in today is lame. He called in to say he is sick but I'm sure he is right now watching TV at home.

He made a good excuse for breaking the regulations.

He made up an excuse for having not made it on time.

Nor have legitimate grounds ever failed a prince who wish to show colorable excuse for the non fulfilment of his promise.

Claiming a lack of opportunities is nothing more than a superficial excuse for justifying failure.

into an excuse for you to be around booze and women?

The only excuse for holding such a dreadful occasion is that it served a business function.

But using that history as an excuse for inaction or blanket bans of online gambling would be a mistake.

The fact that Russia is so obviously being looted is no excuse for helping the looters.

Free-market ideology turned out to be an excuse for new forms of exploitation.

At last she said, "well, sir, what excuse for this disobedience? "

It cannot be a substitute for political solutions and should not serve as an excuse for their absence.

There's no good excuse for allowing quite so much in proven preventative measures to be squandered.

Its insistence that its main role in responding to the crisis would be to keep China's economy growing smacked of an excuse for inaction.

Osterman found an excuse for going to bed.

I was trying to make up a good excuse for being so late.

Apparent differences between ESL teaching and EFL teaching cannot be an excuse for denying their similarities.

He would have every excuse for signing the thing unread, for he has many other matters on his mind.

It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

He made up an excuse for his absence.

But State Department Deputy Spokesman Robert Wood said Syria should not use it as an excuse for returning military forces to Lebanon.

But he believes physicians too often use this as an excuse for an individualized form of medicine that is not evidence-based.

So if I behave badly at work, there's no excuse for it, because I've had the best potty-training with Jack.

Julia: Just another excuse for you to stay at home.

Don't look for an excuse for your failure. If you can't bear hard work now, you will have to bear tears next July.

To many people around the world, America's rhetoric about democracy sounds a lot like an excuse for furthering U. S. hegemony.

The current global economic crisis could serve as a trigger for changes that the country badly needs -- or as an excuse for doing nothing.

Bandits set fire to kill, is the owner of an excuse for not allowing him to steal into the house, is absolutely ridiculous!

It afforded an occasion for their leaving Mansfield and an excuse for residence in London.

Of course one department pays (Health) while another gains (Work and Pensions) but this cannot be a reasonable excuse for delay.

Her cooking is excellent. That isn't an excuse for you to avoid cooking.

That this will take time and money cannot be an excuse for leaving people to suffer.

I honestly feel that this is a lame excuse for a reason against homosexual marriages.

The excuse for her absence was obviously fabricated.

His excuse for forgetting her birthday was that he had lost his diary.

Yet in many ways the reverse is true: the Games have been an excuse for the party to assert control over an increasingly disparate society.

As for they demonizing the aborigines in Africa and America was nothing but make an excuse for their colonialism.

You may be wrong, of course, but a risk of error is no excuse for inaction.

On both counts, an excuse for doing nothing was the concern that political opposition would have jeopardised the whole bill.

I'm afraid because if I feel beautiful and confident I won't have an excuse for not pursuing my passions and dreams.

And if health is your excuse for eating chocolate, remember the word "moderate" as you nibble.

But still, you should not allow use of your photos without monetary compensation; there is NO excuse for that.

That would not be an excuse for us to draw today, I just think Leyton Orient played a great game.

So, the real economic impact of the Japanese disaster results from the fact that it gives our leadership an excuse for poor economic policy.

Small progress was no excuse for feeling satisfied with yourself.

When I asked myself this, I realized that it was because these shows provided a convenient excuse for me to avoid my responsibilities.

They invented an excuse for having to leave earlier than usual.

Protesters say the police are talking up the risks to provide an excuse for heavy-handedness.

Deferring to biology as explanation or excuse for a behavior is to abandon all notions of what it means to be human.

And I also hope that it will not become an excuse for novices to spend much time on leisure pursuits.

"Nothing I say should be taken as an excuse for my behaviour. I take full responsibility for what I did. "

But in the next century, governments will have no excuse for their blissful ignorance.

Do not try to give yourself any excuse, an excuse for the error before the unloved ones.

The weather is good, I'm not sick or anything, and work is not that busy, there is really no excuse for me to stay home.

The bipartisan Baker-Hamilton report gives Mr Bush an excuse for making just such a pivot.

I've dreamed of finding an excuse for sitting in Starbucks all day.

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

Re 2: your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.

The market looked for an excuse for a correction, and got one in the Libya unrest and Japanese earthquake.

The other person is only a catalyst, an excuse for us to exercise our power and our imagination about ourselves.

This means, say the American researchers, that there is no excuse for not taking care of your health.

Although this custom is dying out, the tradition still provides the ladies with an excuse for buying spring clothes.

I wasn't sure if the game was just an excuse for kicking me out, but he looked excited enough now.

Though the broader Middle East has no history of democracy, this is not an excuse for doing nothing.

I'm not able to use nicotine as an excuse for my bad temper in the morning.

He cast about in his mind for some plausible excuse for not turning up at the meeting.

Not being a CPA is no excuse for not understanding the budget of your company.

A bright pupil has no excuse for getting bad marks in school.

Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then.

The World Cup in the U. S. is really an excuse for people to try and sound sophisticated as they pound down Buds, the all-American beer.

His excuse for being late was that his train was delayed.

His excuse for being late was that he had missed the bus.

Misery found no excuse for bullying anyone else because they were all tearing into it for all they were worth .

We'll have to think of good excuse for being late.

The thoughtful social student will not content himself with the popular superficial excuse for this phenomenon.

Of course, there is always the danger that a call for more research can be used as an excuse for political inaction in the meantime.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure. --Ambrose Bierce, American writer.

Critics say politicians are using state budget problems as an excuse for union-busting -- an effort to take away rights to organize.

Allowing foolish lenders, incompetent regulators and sloppy policymakers to hide past mistakes is a bad excuse for endless delays.

This will only give others a new excuse for laughter and derision at my expense.

No matter what you've done to me, there is no excuse for my saying anything like that.

a fabricated excuse for his absence; a fancied wrong; a fictional character; used fictitious names; a made-up story.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

The spokesman also said there is "no acceptable excuse" for the shutdown of Egypt's Internet, mobile phone and satellite communications.

Story-construction-wise, Quidditch practice serves as a tidy excuse for not having Ron present at the Skeeter meeting later on.

There is no such explanation or excuse for the problematic state of democracy in Plato's thinking.

This is not an excuse for anything, but a piece of the reality in which we all live.

There is no excuse for the collapse of schools or other public buildings such as hospitals, whether they were built recently or decades ago.

If such an accident should occur, apologies are fulsome but should never be used as an excuse for further conversation.

The war on terror must never be used as an excuse for silencing legitimate dissent and expressions of opinion.

As long as the railroad can have a reasonable income during the war time, there is no excuse for them to stop their operation.

Nor would there be the least excuse for more G20s to be needled into bastardizing their overbloated monetary systems.

Sometimes, though, we've got a pretty valid excuse for not picking up the phone.

Television and movie makers have no excuse for not jumping on the "green" movement bandwagon.

A war with N. Korea would be a great excuse for voiding our debt with China.

Not to acknowledge applicants' letters is impolite and there seems little excuse for this.

His excuse for being late was that he missed the bus.

The inertia in terms of robbers, the world will not believe their excuse for infringement.

She thought out an excuse for her absence.

This is an excuse for postponing and resisting reunification, as well as a scheme to deceive compatriots in Taiwan and world opinion.

It provided an excuse for cracking down on their Islamist opponents.

Arthur's death provides an excuse for a French invasion, as Mary's death provoked Philip II to launch the Spanish Armada.

He didn't have a good excuse for his absence, so he made up one.

Being ignorant of the law is not accepted as an excuse for breaking the law.

That's my excuse for doing so badly at maths, and I'm sticking to it.

He gave a lame excuse for being absent.

The idea that the regime needs to let bombs off in order to have an excuse for a reshuffle sounds batty.

Stars like Rose Byrne are using hot summer nights as the perfect excuse for an evening ponytail.

Captain Cesc Fabregas has said that the club can no longer use youth and inexperience as an excuse for them not winning important matches.

And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, which too often has served as an excuse for collective inaction.

That, however, should not be an excuse for failing to supervise food safety issues.

But there is no excuse for postponing what needs to be done: the austerity budget must be passed now.

There is no excuse for the extralegal methods that went under the name of Watergate.

He had to get his mother to write an excuse for him.

Markets will probably greet this as good news and an excuse for some more "risk on" trading but it should cause concern.

Thus, at the broadest level, Beijing has least excuse for measures to protect local employment by artificially curtailing imports.

'I cannot offer you an excuse for my behavior, ' Mr. Madoff said.

The level of education or sophistication of the patient is no excuse for bypassing this commitment.

In fact, the Beijing Treaty was only an "informal" excuse for France to claim right to purchase land from the Qing government.

Yet these delusions of recovery have been an excuse for doing nothing as the jobs crisis festers.

The press has questioned the government's right to cite ill-defined "public interest" as an excuse for knocking down homes.

Wine provided both a chief topic of discussion and an excuse for late hours, which were spent sampling new and exotic varieties.

But that is not an excuse for ignoring the opinions of users. In fact, you should carefully gather as much feedback as you can.

Anyone who objects to this utopian mandate, they maintain, is just making an excuse for low expectations and bad teachers.

To citizens in the name can be no excuse for these children because of physical disability from the abandoned children become orphans.

He made up an excuse for his absence in class, which was found out.

They collected her hag and headed for the car. Gussie had deliberately packed for only four days-an excuse for a short visit.

Some even contend that Mr Bush orchestrated the attacks himself, to create an excuse for invading Iraq.

I'll make some excuse for getting mail from a hippie photographer, as long as it's not too much.

And with the resources on the web, there should be no excuse for using poor imagery.

computer malfunctions are never an acceptable excuse for a late submission.

This perhaps made an excuse for me to the fourth time walking to the exam.

In the west, the non-interference policy is seen at times as an excuse for Beijing to support unsavoury regimes.

The only excuse for reproduction is improvement.

But neither of these factors provide an excuse for harassment and rape.

As The Economist concludes, "The basic system works; but that is no excuse for ignoring areas where it could be reformed. "

He has no excuse for his action.

You're barking up the wrong tree. 18. There's no excuse for your actions.

The only excuse for employing consultants is that they have seen it all before and may know something about best practice.

Too much work is no excuse for not writing to your parents.

Wanting things to be perfect is just another excuse for putting off your dreams.

Research shows that about 60 percent of schools have inadequate laboratories, or health and safety is an excuse for not doing experiments.

He used the heavy rain as an excuse for not attending the meeting.

But a cause of national celebration is also, inevitably, an excuse for partisan manoeuvring.

This is no excuse for missing work . There is nothing you can do for dead friends , relatives or co- workers .

There is no excuse for my making use of the title of so celebrated a book except that it so admirably suits my story.

But the women's rights defence is a ridiculous excuse for something very close to racism.

Being in a hurry is no excuse for breaking the law. May I see your license?

There's also a less flattering reason: denying the possibility of pure altruism provides a convenient excuse for selfish behavior.

Another excuse for the states not to yield power is that other big insurance markets are far from consistent.

I don't feel like more paperwork, so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before, you can go.

I love you, It's a poor excuse for what I'm doing, but it's still true.

My heart would not like to be induced, but please give me the excuse for not loving you.

Today it is a popular activity and the excuse for an expedition with family, friends or colleagues, and perhaps a picnic.

One good excuse for serving schnapps, vodka, and beer at the event: Swedes believe alcohol aids in digesting the fatty fish.

There has always been an excuse for putting off reform.

Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil ?

whitening treatments to the good ol' whitening strips you buy at the drugstore, there is simply no excuse for a yellow smile.

To make excuse for or regretful acknowledgment of a fault or offense.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

Destiny is a tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure.

He had no excuse for his being late, but he had to fine one.

"I cannot make an excuse for my behaviour" .

We must not for any reason is an excuse for the ideal way of blocking efforts.

All the rest is a poor excuse for a football player.

now he was seen driving, and, most likely, would have an excuse for that.

She cannot but find a reasonable excuse for her being late.

The stereotype is the most often-cited excuse for dismissing calls for greater citizen participation in local decision-making.

America has a good and a bad excuse for its inaction.

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness. It is not accepting the status quo.

I knew I was downright rude to him, but I found enough excuse for myself.

Saving the public from cheats and criminals has been an effective excuse for cutting back everyone's personal privacy.

A war is no excuse for indecorum . Write please, "Dear Sir. " what's his rank?

Saint Patrick's DayAlthough St. Patrick's Day is not a national holiday, it gives a happy excuse for friends to gather and to celebrate.

I didn't like his friends, and his music seemed to be merely an excuse for the life he led. It sounded just that weird and disordered.

But even if structural breaks cannot be predicted, that is no excuse for nihilism.

"There is no excuse for not trying, " he told students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.

but now, when research has been made easy, there is no excuse for accepting it at all.

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.

Giving excuses. Never give an excuse for your mistakes.

I was not always find an excuse for a lot of failure for their own sophistry ?

We cannot accept the excuse for which you were absent.

The only acceptable excuse for absence is personal illness, a death in the family, or a religious holiday.

This may not be the Japanese way, but that is no excuse for a global company.

There is no real excuse for this delay other than someone not wanting to take the necessary time in crediting my account.

The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding it.

Indeed, holidays around the world are typically an excuse for a big group meal.

was the real reason for your absence? We must invent an excuse for our absence.