St David's Day may be 48 hours away but MPs have never let a mere calendar get in the way of an excuse for a national celebration.
The winners will see their figurehead crowned queen on the last night, ringing in one of the biggest celebrations of the year on an island that rarely needs an excuse for a party.
Unlike many countries in Latin America, in the seventies, that used the excuse of guerilla activity to abolish democratic institutions, Colombia has been able to maintain a parliamentary and constitutional regime.
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The recent round of consolidation in the financial industry has given them another excuse to step up this process: merger partners need to prune holdings so that banks' combined stakes do not exceed 5% of a company's stock, the legal limit.
So when Lord Scarman was asked to "inquire urgently into the serious disorder" in Brixton in 1981, he was careful to insert a paragraph which said "the social conditions do not provide an excuse for disorder - all of those who in the course of the disorders in Brixton and elsewhere engaged in violence against the police were guilty of grave criminal offences".
If this sounds familiar, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the line ElBaradei and his colleague, Hans Blix, the then-head of the UN weapons inspection program in Iraq, employed to excuse Iraqi non-compliance in the run-up to war last Spring.
By such offloading, I mean using technology, or the excuse of technology, in order to make your customer do the work at the front end so that you save costs.
Hence, a pullback was inevitable, and perhaps the situation in Greece is just a convenient excuse for many investors to take some of the gains that they experienced over the last 12 plus month period and re-position their portfolio for the next leg of this market recovery.
Some experts worry that the imbalance gives corporate executives an excuse to load up on debt or skimp on dividends in the name of sound capital allocation.
The irony is that the trial is being held in the courtroom of a federal district judge, Robert Potter, who declined to excuse himself from the case despite the fact that he led a citizens' anti-busing campaign before he joined the bench.
With 23 flagship Sport Relief Miles and hundreds of smaller local events planned in every area of the UK there is no excuse for not getting involved.
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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He added that the illegality of whaling in Australian waters did not excuse Sea Shepherd's activities.
But why in the name of free enterprise is this a perpetual excuse for perpetrating debilitating ordeals on paying passengers?
He calls the office and makes an excuse, then he pours himself a bowl of cereal and sits down in front of the television.
We merely pretend to fight in war and excuse our feeble acts as done for the good of others, not ourselves.
However, if you are going to talk about them in terms of the competition, these constraints do not excuse them for the situation.
If you need an excuse to party, we're in the middle of traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, which began Feb. 18 and run until March 4.
Yet the way the Republicans went after it, by intimidating the three-member board or by providing the excuse it was looking for, gave Americans the first TV view of strong-arm tactics in what was supposed to be a showcase of democracy in action.
McEnroe, whose brother John topped the world rankings in the 1980s, agrees with Roddick about the attractions of other sports, but is not going to make it an excuse for failure.
With a transportation themed episode, it only seemed natural to take the Engadget Show out of our traditional digs -- it was also a great excuse to visit one of our favorite cities in the world: Portland, Oregon.
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"There can be no excuse for the men of this town to live in this gang culture, " he said.
Another excuse to wallow in political incorrectness is provided by the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise.
Others feel that Mahathir is looking for an excuse to justify the use of extreme measures to stay in power.
This is an excuse often given for the maddeningly slow pace of reform in India, its stop-go cycles and its constant back-pedalling.
Ambulance management in the east of England have been told they are running a "flimsy excuse for a service" by their own paramedics.
The Spaniard was making his first league start since September in the absence of Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski, but there was no excuse for this howler.
In Good Excuse Goals, Jullien defines procrastination and perfectionism as two sides of the same coin.
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While there is no question that GoDaddy has a corporate culture that needs changing (at least to me), there is no excuse for muzzling thousands of GoDaddy-hosted or registered websites in the pursuit of social protest against the firm.
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