At least when an employee is absent someone can cover for him or her.
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He says that he had asked Mr Francis to cover for him because he was dining with a female friend, Andrina Colquhoun.
She was so unlikely, Nana thought, though perhaps Pete needed such a girl to keep him in line to provide cover for him by making small talk, uttering pleasantries.
Instead, they joined in helping to cover for him.
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The issue is whether he obstructed justice either by pressuring Miss Lewinsky to cover up for him, or by lying himself.
Whatever their rationale -- be it to help a friend or cover up for him -- the three men left with the backpack.
The official Tory candidate for London mayor was forced to admit he had cooked up a false alibi to cover him for the night he had been accused of sleeping with a prostitute more than a decade previously.
Sutter's work on the Change the List series -- in which readers voted on social justice issues for him to cover -- won the Batten Medal for public service journalism from the American Society of News Editors.
Panesar came on after 20 minutes but there was no turn to the right-hander and Ganga twice confidently cover-drove him for four.
Morkel's first two overs went for 24 and Charl Langeveldt fared little better as Kieswetter stepped down the pitch to thump him over extra cover for a mighty six before moving across to sweep from off stump for four.
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The SEC then tried to cover up its reasons for firing him, he claims.
This bizarre charade, designed to give him political cover for hard decisions, is supposed to allow the president to express shock at what the auditors will find.
Cook hooked Taylor for a sumptuous boundary and drove him for another, before Strauss's cover-drive off Edwards finished off proceedings.
But taking defence contractors with him to the Gulf invited mockery: a cover in Private Eye has him offering a two-for-one deal on tear gas and armoured cars and being invited to throw in his wife as well.
When Jim Tressel was outed and ousted in the Ohio State tattoo-gate, it was not the tattoo exchange for player memorabilia, but the coach cover up that was the primary basis for the NCAA punishment of him and the university.
Whether or not Dorner's grudges were legitimate, it's clear from his manifesto that they had consumed him long before he took cover for the last time in a lonely cabin.
Worcestershire soon lost Daryl Mitchell caught behind off Yasir Arafat, but Cameron and Solanki added 77 before Cameron was run out by Luke Wells at cover going for the run that would have taken him to 50.
They blame Ramon Saadi for the cover-up of her murder, and are outraged at Mr Menem's support for him.
Rodgers signed him in January 2009 to provide cover for Watford's first-choice keepers.
For a long time, planes were just a tool for him, enabling him to quickly cover the broad Texas expanses between his natural gas wells.
But Whitney is such a big-hearted donor to causes that I care about that I am writing this open letter for him to try to get him to cover his short now.
Staff Sergeant Romesha took out an enemy machine gun team, and, while engaging a second, the generator he was using for cover was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade, inflicting him with shrapnel wounds.
It would cover the gas for the several-hours-drive home, and it got him noticed.
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Under this Pope, no bishop, however badly implicated in a cover-up, ever had to fear that Rome would hold him accountable for what he did, or failed to do, in the crisis.
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As such, Mr. Wilders deserves our thanks and support, not denunciations from fellow freedom-fighters that unintentionally provides political cover for our common enemies' efforts to discredit and, if possible, to kill him.
On Saturday, he is set to hold an audience for many of the 5, 600 journalists accredited to cover the Conclave - giving him an opportunity to set out some of his global vision.
Karthik reached his half-century in fine style by driving James Kirtley for four, and twice dispatched him off the back foot to the square cover boundary.
As for those fat subsidies, they barely cover production costs, he says, let alone make him rich.
But his numerous critics revile him as a cynic whose man-of-the-people persona is cover for the billions of dollars amassed by his wife and children.
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