This is military action against the evil regime of Saddam Hussein, and it is emphatically not an attack or an excuse for an attack on Islam, on muslim communities here in Scotland.
Saving money through an amended sequester should not be an excuse for continuing wasteful domestic or military programs, discretionary or mandatory.
Short-term pain is an inevitable concomitant of structural reform: it is not an excuse for not doing it.
"They know we're working with the Kurds to make sure there's not an incident" that would provide an excuse for them to go into northern Iraq.
The decision process is neither easy nor quick, but that is not an excuse for shortcuts.
Still, says Compuware's Lewandowski, Asia's slight advantage should not be an excuse for complacency.
Dr. STEPHEN KNORR (Chief Psychiatrist, Fort Carson Mental Health Center): PTSD is not an excuse for bad behavior.
This is why fears about the possibility of defaults are not an excuse for ignoring the entire asset class.
But that's a description of the difficulty, not an excuse for failure.
"The choked-off recovery we've seen since George Osborne's spending review and VAT rise should not be an excuse for ducking the necessary reforms, " he said.
Scientific uncertainty, of course, is not necessarily an excuse for inaction.
Ignorance, of course, is not an excuse for trade secret theft.
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But because the portals may be jammed, because the phones may be busy, is not an excuse for Americans not to continue to help their neighbors.
He told the BBC's North West Tonight crooked bankers and MPs deserved to be punished - but their behaviour should not be used as an excuse for lawlessness.
Mr Grayling added that while such a scheme is contemplated, "road tolls should not be used as an excuse for building new roads, which cause damage to the environment and generate more traffic".
Aznar argues that the present slowdown in the world economy should not be used as an excuse for delaying the economic reform programme first mooted at the Lisbon summit two years ago, but as an added motivation.
Scientists tend now to see geo-engineering research as a form of insurance policy against the effects of continued global warning, not as an excuse for downplaying the problem, nor for tolerating more carbon emissions in the meantime.
"I am not trying to make an excuse for my behaviour by saying that others did the same, but I don't think I was some kind of a monster in making a death threat to a suspect, " he says.
"It's a hard thing for me to admit but I was certainly not in control of my emotions at the time and acted irresponsibly and irrationally, " wrote Stuart in his apology, adding "but that's not an excuse for my behaviour".
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".
But the former England international is not using their absence as an excuse for the latest setback.
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.
Politicians such as Mr Advani and Mr Vajpayee, who quickly flew to the scene of the siege, made it clear to him that the attack was not to be used as an excuse for a second round of attacks on Muslims.
In Sweden active labour-market policies became an excuse for not dismantling other rigidities in the labour market.
But at least the "uncertainty" about Iraq as an excuse for not investing, trading, selling and marketing is over.
Does the new intern always have an excuse not to go out for Friday night beers at the local hangout?
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