The parking lot, in short, was a sham excuse for a direct subsidy.
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Ample punishment has already been doled out to Gupta and prison is just a poor excuse as a way to hold him up as an example to the rest of us.
Still, "This eruption over the DNC's troubles provides a convenient excuse for a lot of donors to just sit on their hands for a while, " Democratic strategist Donald Sweitzer told The Associated Press.
It's a great excuse to create a stripped down e-mail client and start from scratch, focusing only on the basics.
For example, a trip to Hawaii for a destination wedding is a perfect excuse to take a few extra days on the beach.
Since the World Championships I have been just chilling and enjoying being lazy and as Christmas is coming, it is a great excuse to party a little!
While many people see the wedding and extra bank holiday as a good excuse to throw a party, some events have been organised for people who want to avoid the pageantry.
If you are, it'll give you a perfect excuse to rent a muscle car for the occasion, blast these bold anthems of ambivalence in the parking lot, and revel in what little youth you've got left.
Some penalties might be waived on proof of a reasonable excuse, such as a family illness.
In a week of obsession I could not come up with a suitable excuse but here, in a desperate moment, I came up with the perfect solution.
But a greater show of modesty in his forecasts now, when the world's economic troubles could have given him a perfect excuse, might have been a little more, well, prudent.
We had been ripe for a pull in for the last few weeks after a steep uptrend into the meat of earnings season, and the combination of factors were a nice excuse to take us for a little dip.
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Not only that, but as a South Side resident for the last 15 years, I can assure you that the White Sox are also heavily reliant on being good enough that those families have a plausible excuse to skip out on a summer of graduation parties, weddings and other family events.
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Then it gave itself a further excuse for delay by setting up a Royal Commission.
We don't often jailbreak our iPhones to test apps, but a facial recognition unlock tool seemed a worthy excuse, so we gave it a shot.
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It was a valid excuse to leave the office before 7 pm on a Thursday night and kind of fun to be invited by Webgrrls.
There are some negatives ahead, which provide a good background excuse for a correction at this time.
Ambulance management in the east of England have been told they are running a "flimsy excuse for a service" by their own paramedics.
But that is a lame excuse: it should be much easier to count bodies than to put a value on diverse sorts of economic output.
When confronted, he gave a lame excuse about not realizing he was reaching into the case.
You never had to make a similar excuse to any girl you might be dating.
An invite to dinner, drinks, a movie or shopping will be met with a similar excuse.
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But if travel to exotic locales is what turns you on, birding offers a perfect excuse.
He is always sincerely apologetic but I must admit he has a good excuse.
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That, in turn, could provide the generals with a handy excuse to reassert their waning influence.
But finding Dr. Mario was a good excuse for an urban adventure in New York.
Branches are often run almost autonomously, so a merger serves as a convenient excuse to centralise.
For some clubs, football seems a mere excuse for more lucrative, and murkier, pursuits.
It is tempting to dismiss this trite formulation as a meaningless excuse for inaction.
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