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.
Opening the market to foreign competition offers a good excuse to eliminate the restrictions on out-of-state companies that exist due to state licensing laws.
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Some of Kagan's defenders have sought to excuse her failure to oppose the promotion on campus of a brutally homophobic agenda by claiming that the program funded by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is actually on another part of Harvard's campus, not that of the law school.
They then opted against a rushed practice at the Westpac Stadium before the scheduled start at 1400 local time on Saturday - but the lack of preparation could hardly be an excuse.
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.
"On the eve of a contempt hearing, the FDA has once again come up with an excuse to treat the approval of contraceptives differently from any other drug, " said Nancy Northup, the group's chief executive.
Gun-control advocates have helped highlight these flaws, but some also worry that focus on the system's holes will be used as an excuse to block legislation requiring universal use of the background check system.
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There really is no excuse for this insensitivity to conflicts on the part of institutional investors other than the prolonged bull market has hidden the related harm.
It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates get reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority - "there is no excuse for inaction" - and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to dictate or resolve nothing in political terms.
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.
There are some who want to use the review of the 1988 ITRs in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) as an excuse to impose legacy telecommunications regulation on the Internet and Internet Protocol networks and services.
But Rahul, who on the face of it suffers none of these vulnerabilities, has less excuse.
It was a valid excuse to leave the office before 7 pm on a Thursday night and kind of fun to be invited by Webgrrls.
But why in the name of free enterprise is this a perpetual excuse for perpetrating debilitating ordeals on paying passengers?
They accuse Lula of using the recession as an excuse to expand the state's grip on the economy, either directly (with oil) or indirectly (through loans by state banks).
Educators sometimes argue that school productivity has fallen because of the social problems dumped on them, but this is an explanation, not an excuse: In practice, they never resist more recruits.
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.
He lashed out at the bank's donor governments, several of whom think he should resign, for using the affair as an excuse to welsh on their promises to replenish the bank's coffers.
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If that occurs, I will owe my clients an apology for not jumping on the conventional wisdom and will have no excuse for our miserable 8.7% to 10.3% returns of our balanced portfolios when the gold and real estate weights would have out-performed by about 2% to 3.5%, if history repeats itself like our worst inflationary spike.
Of course, on October 15th - excuse me, on July 15th - on July 15th, 2011, our Secretary of State met with the head of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, remember, that's the second time I've mentioned his name.
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