Mr Paxton is alive to the complexities of politics without for once making them an excuse to avoid clear judgments.
To Obama, who reserves his deepest disdain for Washington's weasely ways, those displays smack of pointless posturing and excuse-making.
Chaotic times are no excuse for making poor choices, despite the fact that all this stuff is happening that you cannot control.
Future historians almost always reject this kind of excuse-making, and I suspect that this will happen with Wal-Mart, despite your claims to its innocence.
But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff.
He stood for something and he would not allow the auto companies any excuse for not making great cars.
Mr Brown has neither Mr Obama's charm, nor the excuse that he was making a reasonable point in a rather crass way.
The financial crisis might give them an excuse for further delay, making the necessary tax hikes and benefit cuts, when they do come, even more brutal.
The Kenyan government was worried that cheap hooch was making people seriously ill, so it offered to excuse Diageo from excise duty if it produced a cut-price beer.
Schwartz considers this an excuse for bankers to save their skins after making so many bad decisions.
"We really don't have an excuse anymore, " said Jeremy Lin, one of three Houston starters making their first career playoff apperance.
Mr Bryant-Heron said Ms Casburn admits making the phonecall but denies asking for money, and says she had a reasonable excuse.
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.
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