During high school, he got a doctor's note to excuse him from physical education.
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We excuse him because he was able to identify bad data and it turned out he was right (mostly).
If the head of government underreacts when the country is threatened, history is not likely to excuse him on the grounds that his excessive caution enjoyed bipartisan support.
This is why, as a result, those northern angry Republicans investigated a vulnerable Johnson who, not unlike Bill Clinton, had personal foibles, to try to come up with an excuse to impeach him.
The rationale helped him feel as if he was in control, but gave him an excuse to put off exercise.
The fierce competition among Pearl River Delta cities gives him an excuse.
This has been by all appearances an unprofitable venture, yet the magazine gave him an excuse to set up house in Washington, D.
NATO's bombs because they would give him the excuse to face down his own hawks and make concessions that he sees as inevitable.
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.
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.
But instead of fessing up that he had obeyed only the letter of the law, he insisted yesterday that, gee whiz, the earlier tax dodge didn't even occur to him -- an excuse that came off as legalistic and implausible.
Usually when we invite people, they come. (Laughter.) But we gave him another chance because he had a pretty good excuse the first time.
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He had a good excuse: Old friends David Crosby, Graham Nash and Young kept luring him back out on the road to tour.
His trip to Japan is a convenient excuse to escape his nagging wife, yet it is someone else's wife who rescues him.
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