The 49-year-old mother, a laundry worker, had denied failing to send her daughter to school without reasonable excuse.

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Recent legislation - which is governed across the UK by the Home Office - made it an offence to possess an airgun in a public place without reasonable excuse such as vermin control near farms.

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In sum, a fiscal gap without even the excuse that it exists for virtuous reasons.

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One of the byelaws prohibits "people climbing on any wall, fence, tree, barrier, railing or structure without a reasonable excuse".

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But in general, it allows voters to cast ballots in person before Election Day using either voting machines or so-called absentee ballots -- without having to provide an excuse.

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Men, by comparison, just walk out without bothering to create a possible excuse.

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Mr Paxton is alive to the complexities of politics without for once making them an excuse to avoid clear judgments.

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Yet even if we assume Obama would have won re-election without any IRS shenanigans, that is no excuse for the wrongful conduct.

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There is probably no better excuse for two people to touch each other, without any suggestion of impropriety, than to take to the dance floor.

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Willingham used to tell her to stay in her kitchen for a day, without leaving, to comprehend what it was like to be confined in prison, but she had always found an excuse not to do it.

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