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".
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.
Men, by comparison, just walk out without bothering to create a possible excuse.
Mr Paxton is alive to the complexities of politics without for once making them an excuse to avoid clear judgments.
Yet even if we assume Obama would have won re-election without any IRS shenanigans, that is no excuse for the wrongful conduct.
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.
In his ruling, Judge Korman criticised the Obama administration's justification, calling it "an excuse to deprive the overwhelming majority of women of their rights to obtain contraceptives without unjustified and burdensome restrictions".
"The invocation of the adverse effect of Plan B on 11-year-olds is an excuse to deprive the overwhelming majority of women of their right to obtain contraceptives without unjustified and burdensome restrictions, " he wrote.
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These aren't the words that I used or how I said it to him, and that, you know, maybe she had seen drafts of notes, trying to obviously give an excuse as to how Linda Tripp could possibly know about my relationship with the President without me having been the one to have told her.
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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