I'm not a guy that's going to make any excuses, and today's certainly not a day I'm going to make an excuse.

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"I am not trying to make an excuse for my behaviour by saying that others did the same, but I don't think I was some kind of a monster in making a death threat to a suspect, " he says.

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The harried prime minister Manmohan Singh will be 80, and "can make age an excuse to retire".

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If you decided to stay home from work today because your psychic told you to, would you tell your boss the truth or make up an excuse?

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McEnroe, whose brother John topped the world rankings in the 1980s, agrees with Roddick about the attractions of other sports, but is not going to make it an excuse for failure.

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Morgan was, rather, buying that energy from itself--and using the ruse as an excuse to make apparent loans to Enron.

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But the policy change is seen by many Labour councils as an excuse to make less use of private firms.

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The incident makes JSTOR look like an injured, even magnanimous, party and gives them an excuse to make their policies more restrictive.

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Globalization is just an excuse to make the main accusation, though.

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Could Mr. Schnatter be setting himself up to make a few extra pennies per pie using Obamacare as an excuse or is he simply exaggerating his plight to sell his political narrative?

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They believe Giuliani never wanted to make the Senate race, that he used the cancer as an excuse to get out.

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None of this is an excuse for protectionism unless you want to make everybody poorer.

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Without the 7-1 defeat to Colchester, nobody would have had any need to make such a ruthless decision, even if they were waiting for an excuse.

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"They know we're working with the Kurds to make sure there's not an incident" that would provide an excuse for them to go into northern Iraq.

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The judge could decide that illness is not an excuse, since Lohan knew she had to be in California and had the responsibility to make the trip with time to spare.

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