Horford declined to use the loss at Boston as an excuse for Atlanta's low energy level.
For Arab leaders, the peace process stalemate is, at best, an excuse.
But at least he had an excuse.
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"We saw the market go down after the bailout didn't pass, and we saw a market that went down even more after it did pass, so at this point it looks like traders and investors are just looking for an excuse to sell, " said Cleveland Rueckert, an analyst at Birinyi Associates.
This week, investors may want to look again at U.S. GDP revisions as an excuse to short the EUR once more.
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.
If the studio head's star casting misfires at the box office, he or she has an excuse.
But at least the "uncertainty" about Iraq as an excuse for not investing, trading, selling and marketing is over.
New Labour has its vices, but has at least learnt not to see every crisis as an excuse to enlarge the work of governments beyond their power to do good.
For this allows us, provides an excuse to, go back and look at whether there have been any other inventions in his pieces over the years.
There's really no story here at all, like, at all, but I think it does give an early excuse to relax and stay out late for a week that they usually don't get to do so during the year.
This is an excuse from someone who does not understand networking at all.
There are some who want to use the review of the 1988 ITRs in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) as an excuse to impose legacy telecommunications regulation on the Internet and Internet Protocol networks and services.
Does the new intern always have an excuse not to go out for Friday night beers at the local hangout?
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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.
They then opted against a rushed practice at the Westpac Stadium before the scheduled start at 1400 local time on Saturday - but the lack of preparation could hardly be an excuse.
As he made clear at the end of the summit, the collapse of the constitutional talks gives Mr Chirac an excuse to pursue this objective.
The court was told McCormack claimed to the police he had been drunk and posted the message at 02:00, the day after his birthday, although accepted it was not an excuse.
"I think it's just an after-the-fact excuse, " said Sean Blaney, senior botanist at the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, who first brought the image to the attention of the broadcaster CBC.
Woods' only practice round at the course came during Wednesday's pro-am but he refused to use that as an excuse, saying the course was set up to be attacked.
Not at first, when Greece, Spain and the others used the euro's low interest rates as an excuse to party.
Mayor Ben Solomon and Anthony Plancarte -- excuse me Anthony Plancarte who was laid off three months ago as an assistant general manager at a local mall join me.
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Missing Kelly Smith is not an excuse - too many players were not on their game and some of them need to look at themselves and be absolutely honest.
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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