St David's Day may be 48 hours away but MPs have never let a mere calendar get in the way of an excuse for a national celebration.
With 23 flagship Sport Relief Miles and hundreds of smaller local events planned in every area of the UK there is no excuse for not getting involved.
By such offloading, I mean using technology, or the excuse of technology, in order to make your customer do the work at the front end so that you save costs.
The coarse bristles of my hand broom were going to scrape their sandaled feet, but even when I stood directly in front of them saying "Excuse me" over and over, they didn't see or hear me.
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There was nothing better than using a dip in performance of Tevez in his 2nd season with Man Utd as an excuse to negotiate a lower price.
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Is the U.S. -- or excuse me, is Egypt in danger of losing its U.S. financial assistance?
Unlike many countries in Latin America, in the seventies, that used the excuse of guerilla activity to abolish democratic institutions, Colombia has been able to maintain a parliamentary and constitutional regime.
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In a week of obsession I could not come up with a suitable excuse but here, in a desperate moment, I came up with the perfect solution.
He added that the illegality of whaling in Australian waters did not excuse Sea Shepherd's activities.
But why in the name of free enterprise is this a perpetual excuse for perpetrating debilitating ordeals on paying passengers?
However, if you are going to talk about them in terms of the competition, these constraints do not excuse them for the situation.
If you need an excuse to party, we're in the middle of traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, which began Feb. 18 and run until March 4.
With a transportation themed episode, it only seemed natural to take the Engadget Show out of our traditional digs -- it was also a great excuse to visit one of our favorite cities in the world: Portland, Oregon.
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So when Lord Scarman was asked to "inquire urgently into the serious disorder" in Brixton in 1981, he was careful to insert a paragraph which said "the social conditions do not provide an excuse for disorder - all of those who in the course of the disorders in Brixton and elsewhere engaged in violence against the police were guilty of grave criminal offences".
"There can be no excuse for the men of this town to live in this gang culture, " he said.
We need to target the worst schools and establish excuse-free zones in education, beginning with real measures of school performance.
We merely pretend to fight in war and excuse our feeble acts as done for the good of others, not ourselves.
In my view, this abundance of support removes any legitimate excuse to put off starting a campus-based microfinance group that can built better communities across the country.
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But he added: "This does not mean that this should provide men with an excuse not to own up to their responsibilities in taking some of the burdens off of the juggling working mums - we still need 'new men'!"
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Another excuse to wallow in political incorrectness is provided by the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise.
Others feel that Mahathir is looking for an excuse to justify the use of extreme measures to stay in power.
This is an excuse often given for the maddeningly slow pace of reform in India, its stop-go cycles and its constant back-pedalling.
"There is no excuse for this kind of criminality, whoever is involved in it, but I don't think it is a particular group of people, I don't think it's a particular race or religion, " he said.
The recent round of consolidation in the financial industry has given them another excuse to step up this process: merger partners need to prune holdings so that banks' combined stakes do not exceed 5% of a company's stock, the legal limit.
Hence, a pullback was inevitable, and perhaps the situation in Greece is just a convenient excuse for many investors to take some of the gains that they experienced over the last 12 plus month period and re-position their portfolio for the next leg of this market recovery.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get another cup of coffee in my Philadelphia Flyers coffee mug.
Some experts worry that the imbalance gives corporate executives an excuse to load up on debt or skimp on dividends in the name of sound capital allocation.
While there is no question that GoDaddy has a corporate culture that needs changing (at least to me), there is no excuse for muzzling thousands of GoDaddy-hosted or registered websites in the pursuit of social protest against the firm.
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