Excusing low growth due to industry, or economic, weakness merely gives the incumbent a pass.
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That's not excusing them for their actions, its just explaining the way it is.
Or not I guess, because we are excusing Henry for any responsibility in his financial mess.
More recently he has stirred controversy by partially excusing the activities of Somalia's pirates.
Excusing himself for a soda, he requests a Pepsi from the first confused, but soon acquiescent bartender.
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They emphasized the point by issuing court rulings in their own favor, excusing themselves from the tax.
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She gained a poor degree, excusing herself that she had been too busy with politics to study well.
Armed only with a bottle of beer, he bravely made it halfway through the meal before excusing himself for a short walk.
Not excusing ObamaCare for even a second, but health care was already heavily regulated as is, and if it distracted Obama, even better.
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This person just did the online equivalent of smiling politely, excusing herself to go to the bathroom and leaving you alone at the bar.
Deputy Roy Le Herissier believed excusing Senator Ozouf's behaviour because he was stressed was not a good enough reason not to hold him to account.
"I am not really excusing" the slave owner, he says, "just saying that he only becomes a villain when he becomes conscious" of what he's doing.
Ann Dorset from the museum said while not excusing Picton, the portrait had been painted specifically to hang in the building, and that it is where it should remain.
Too often in this century, nations and peoples that should have known better have exhibited a propensity for excusing or for averting their eyes from crimes of unimaginable horror and scale.
Their "Use It or Lose It" legislation, meanwhile, is designed to allow them to both pin rising oil prices on drillers, while excusing the refusal to give drillers any new offshore leases.
However, I am not excusing my behaviour whatsoever.
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Overrewarding employees ranges from protecting employees from natural consequences, excusing them from standard practices, making exceptions to prop up their performance, to outright promoting them in spite of outlandish past behavior or history with the company.
That is, excusing her and blaming them.
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With marked-up copies of Verizon's agreement, Cablevision attorneys pointed out areas they found weak: Verizon's schedule to build out service in the entire town, its obligation to restore damaged municipal property and clauses excusing Verizon from penalties in case of unusual events.
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