Horford declined to use the loss at Boston as an excuse for Atlanta's low energy level.
But the former England international is not using their absence as an excuse for the latest setback.
Republicans are casting the White House's pivot toward competitiveness as an excuse for bigger government and more spending.
Houllier also refused to use injuries and illness to key players as an excuse for the poor performance.
Unfortunately, there is a temptation to hide behind this complexity and use it as an excuse for poor communications.
But at least the "uncertainty" about Iraq as an excuse for not investing, trading, selling and marketing is over.
C. no longer have grocery shopping as an excuse for their slow progress on an immigration bill and the sequester.
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But MCK is pleased that fewer Angolans now accept the conflict as an excuse for the lack of jobs and services.
What kind of message would I be sending them if I used this experience as an excuse for all things from this point forward?
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He told the BBC's North West Tonight crooked bankers and MPs deserved to be punished - but their behaviour should not be used as an excuse for lawlessness.
Many developing countries either haven't the resources or, when help is offered, the will to adopt proper standards, seeing them as an excuse for slowing down scientific exchange.
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Having failed in their cherished goal of tossing Obama out of office, they will no longer be able to use uncertainty as an excuse for not investing their spare cash.
"As the recent debate over racial profiling demonstrates all too clearly, a relatively minor traffic infraction may often serve as an excuse for stopping and harassing an individual, " O'Connor wrote.
Unfortunately, explained Elliott, co-founder of the Consumer Travel Alliance and a nationally syndicated travel columnist, airlines sometimes use weather as an excuse for delays that are primarily caused by other issues.
Mr Grayling added that while such a scheme is contemplated, "road tolls should not be used as an excuse for building new roads, which cause damage to the environment and generate more traffic".
And citing the deep penetration capabilities of the Osprey as an excuse for killing off the fighting vehicle in the very next paragraph after calling for an early end to tilt-rotor production sounds downright contradictory.
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Aznar argues that the present slowdown in the world economy should not be used as an excuse for delaying the economic reform programme first mooted at the Lisbon summit two years ago, but as an added motivation.
Scientists tend now to see geo-engineering research as a form of insurance policy against the effects of continued global warning, not as an excuse for downplaying the problem, nor for tolerating more carbon emissions in the meantime.
All the players should be at full tilt now and they won't be able to hide behind the effects of altitude as an excuse for not performing well, because they are playing the Sharks at sea level in Durban.
Mr Davies said Mr Jones had "on fourteen occasions ... constantly referred to the UK government as being an excuse for failure to deliver".
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He also used the leaking of the report as an excuse to aim for the moral high ground.
But if Ankara really wanted to play a leadership role, it could have used this incident as an excuse to push for military action.
With Ford, simplicity could be vice as much as virtue an excuse for ignoring (or mistreating) associates and avoiding hard decisions.
All three matches were played in wet and wild conditions which hindered the free-running, open style they play, but Claassens insists that cannot be used as an excuse as they aim for a win that would see them leapfrog fourth-placed Sarries.
Bank of America used its January acquisition of Merrill Lynch as an excuse to comb through its operations for businesses to exit, and now it finally has a buyer for part of its Columbia Management fund group.
Some, like Davos regular Bill Gates, lead by example, by giving away their vast fortunes in the cause of poverty alleviation - and as it happens he today has written his annual letter, in which he calls on well-heeled citizens and governments of wealthier nations not to use these tougher economic times as an excuse to squeeze the financial help for poorer nations struggling to become self-sufficient.
In 2009, after a string of such killings, the chairman of PNG's Constitutional Review and Law Reform Commission said defendants were using accusations of witchcraft as an excuse to kill people, and called for tougher legislation to tackle the issue.
As global demand for dollar-denominated debt falls, the Fed is looking for an excuse to pick up the slack.
He lashed out at the bank's donor governments, several of whom think he should resign, for using the affair as an excuse to welsh on their promises to replenish the bank's coffers.
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