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Dr. STEPHEN KNORR (Chief Psychiatrist, Fort Carson Mental Health Center): PTSD is not an excuse for bad behavior.
NPR: Checking In on Fort Carson, Part II
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Yet despite the excuse of bad weather and the flakiness of the figure, it still came as a palpable shock.
ECONOMIST: The surprise fall in GDP
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Bad traffic is usually the excuse.
ECONOMIST: Business travel
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Market leaders may take the Times article and the flood of other bad press as an excuse to stop grappling with the implications of social media and other emerging Internet-driven disruptions.
FORBES: Bubble Deflated, Social Media Will Now Change the World
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Realistically, though, legislators typically will not excuse defendants who have sufficiently bad scienter.
FORBES: Want To End The Litigation Epidemic? Create Lawsuit-Free Zones
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Hacks have become so rampant that they have emerged as the excuse du jour to whisk away bad behavior.
FORBES: Security's Fab Five
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Too bad Alex can't use the same excuse when he applies, as he is at prep school back in Massachusetts.
CNN: E-mail from an inferno: How we escaped the fire
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This argument over price volatility is simply an excuse: food commodity speculation is bad just because it is and it must be stopped.
FORBES: Speculation Reduces Price Volatility, Not Increases It
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In analysing the region's long history of turbulent relationships, Mr Halliday laments the fact that history is so often allowed to provide an excuse for present conflict, prejudice and bad behaviour.
ECONOMIST: The Middle East
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We excuse him because he was able to identify bad data and it turned out he was right (mostly).
FORBES: Harvard Scientist Resigns Over Misconduct
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Schwartz considers this an excuse for bankers to save their skins after making so many bad decisions.
FORBES: Anna Schwartz, Monetary Historian, RIP