Sadly, Allan Johnston and Paul Dickov (who at least had the excuse of being played out of position) were dreadful.
My own view is that we should never accept at face value the excuse heard all too often from U.S. negotiators that a defective agreement must be accepted because it was the best we could hope to get.
Albert, a former corporate lawyer, scoffs at the Sept. 11 excuse.
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.
Horford declined to use the loss at Boston as an excuse for Atlanta's low energy level.
We are now at the point where there is no excuse to extend this further.
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At least the New School has the excuse that it needs to build a central campus because it has never had one.
According to analysts at the World Bank, if you excuse more than 2% of farm products from the tariff cuts, you lose over 75% of the benefits.
"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.
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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The annual Taipei Chinese Food Festival will be held Aug. 20 to 24 at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall--yet another great excuse for visitors to feast on the city's many delights.
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.
While the Sudanese government and the rebels continue to make excuse after excuse, the world powers on the Security Council have at least managed to pass a resolution that puts more pressure on the regime in Khartoum to stop the fighting.
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.
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.
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.
There can be no doubt that insiders at the SBA know better, and there is no excuse for this breach of trust.
The other excuse that baseball writers will have for exempting Biggio is equally ridiculous: he just played at the wrong time, the steroid era.
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For Arab leaders, the peace process stalemate is, at best, an excuse.
At least incumbents have no excuse for getting caught on the hop.
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.
Too bad Alex can't use the same excuse when he applies, as he is at prep school back in Massachusetts.
This week, investors may want to look again at U.S. GDP revisions as an excuse to short the EUR once more.
Yet surely local managers cannot plausibly excuse such fundamental failings at their hospitals by blaming diktats from the centre.
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.
East Midlands Airport (EMA) has said there is no excuse for luggage being left in the snow following a flight cancellation at the weekend.
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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.
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