Some states require an excuse for absentee voting while others are moving toward no-excuse absentee balloting.
That made the central bank's benchmark interest rate of 15.75% in April no bargain, but no excuse for three-figure overdraft rates either.
It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates get reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority - "there is no excuse for inaction" - and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to dictate or resolve nothing in political terms.
Even the chronic insecurity that blights parts of Africa is no excuse for tight-fistedness.
With these resources at hand, a problematic student-athlete has no excuse for failing to make reasonable progress towards their degree attainment.
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The report paints a disturbing picture of the prospect of achieving EFA by 2015 but Mr Al-Samarrai makes no excuse for the stark message.
And I think there might be some grumbling about the president's insistence there'd be no new spending programs because - excuse me - some Democrats are pushing for money to be, you know, spent on infrastructure repairs, helping out states that have bridge and highway programs underway.
If you love comics or pure action, there's no excuse for not playing Spider-Man.
Somewhere in between is a Poo Ensemble, which is good to have for the weekends when you have no real excuse to be all poo-ey.
But part of what we want is an environment in which everybody agrees -- from the governor to the school superintendent, teachers, principals, and most importantly parents and students -- that there's no excuse for mediocrity.
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While there is no question that GoDaddy has a corporate culture that needs changing (at least to me), there is no excuse for muzzling thousands of GoDaddy-hosted or registered websites in the pursuit of social protest against the firm.
The Vatican's centuries-old secrecy over the way it handles its money will no longer be an excuse to avoid its obligations under international and Italian criminal law to combat money-laundering operations by third parties, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Attention environmentalists and green-minded investors: You no longer have an excuse for not putting your money where your mouth is when it comes to supporting solar energy projects.
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Basle were furious that referee Stefan Johannesson waved away appeals for a free-kick in the build-up to the goal but there was no excuse for their woeful marking.
The latest bout of violence is no excuse for anyone to walk out of the multi-party talks.
Yet even if we assume Obama would have won re-election without any IRS shenanigans, that is no excuse for the wrongful conduct.
He was told by O'Leary there was no excuse for his behaviour on the night in January 2000 and was immediately transfer-listed.
So there was no excuse, weeks later, for senior CIA officials to be so thoroughly un-ready to brief Mr. Cheney on the subject.
The real question is not whether kids can excuse messy phone-hacking and influence-peddling accusations, but whether family responsibilities can be an excuse for shuffling business responsibilities, no matter how small.
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There's no question that the Framers reviewed -- reviewed this language as responsive to Mason's concerns -- excuse me, to Morris' concerns -- that the impeachment be limited and well- defined.
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"There is no excuse for failing to get your children protected, and infected children can cause grave problems for others - don't forget, " he said.
Both Pyongyang and Damascus are certified sponsors of international terrorism: There can be no excuse for Russia facilitating the former's efforts to earn hard currency by selling arms with weapons-of-mass-destruction potential nor the latter's determination to acquire them.
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