Emotional outbursts aren't viewed favorably in most workplaces, which is why you should just excuse yourself from meetings or work if you feel emotionally overwhelmed.
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But this is usually just an excuse: raising revenues is generally the main objective.
His strict standard, in their eyes, is just an excuse to put off negotiations.
The current plan takes years and this will be seen as just an excuse to break promises later.
However, while it is possible to mock the story as just an excuse being given, there is a greater truth behind it.
With the possible exception of the last, which looks like just another excuse for delay, these ideas deserve to be taken up as soon as possible.
It's easy to exploit such fears in this economic climate, but these tired old canards -- trotted out in every minimum wage fight -- are just an excuse for political inaction and continued corporate greed.
And of course, the 16th is just an excuse: how great it would be if we took the opportunity any day, all year, to thank those leaders who have touched our lives in a positive way.
But if we show weakness now, if we allow the plea for more time to become just an excuse for prevarication until the moment for action passes, then it will not only be Saddam who is repeating history.
And we certainly can't do it just as an excuse to give me another tax cut.
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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.
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.
They have ready excuses for why this list is difficult to produce, but each excuse is just further evidence of their inability to deliver.
"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.
Forget the criminal investigation, which will just give knowledgeable witnesses an excuse to withhold cooperation from any congressional inquiry.
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When I hear someone excuse themselves and say: just got to jump on another call, the only surprise is they got there first.
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"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.
Now if you'll excuse us, we've just dropped a Jackson to see what crazy antics Jennifer Aniston has gotten herself into this time.
Excuse me, I'm just being handed a bulletin.
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In Northern Ireland, I was plunged into areas of community psychiatry that I wasn't really qualified to do, and was doing the jobs of two people, but that's just by way of background rather than an excuse for what ultimately happened.
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He might excuse himself from cases involving that firm just so he can avoid a conflict of interest.
Men, by comparison, just walk out without bothering to create a possible excuse.
This argument over price volatility is simply an excuse: food commodity speculation is bad just because it is and it must be stopped.
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Still, "This eruption over the DNC's troubles provides a convenient excuse for a lot of donors to just sit on their hands for a while, " Democratic strategist Donald Sweitzer told The Associated Press.
When we were writing about this in our book (and excuse the shameless plug) we said they Just Start . (Which was our title.) And we tried to capture the approach we were advocating with the subtitle: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty.
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