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.
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.
Footnote No. 5: Mr. Obama keeps dining out on the excuse of the recession, but that ended halfway through his first year.
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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Enterprises that consider the Big Data is too nascent and immature can no longer rely on that excuse.
Not only that, but as a South Side resident for the last 15 years, I can assure you that the White Sox are also heavily reliant on being good enough that those families have a plausible excuse to skip out on a summer of graduation parties, weddings and other family events.
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She would not tolerate the excuse, she declared, that they were on holiday.
But it removes the one excuse his supporters offered that he was picked on for racial reasons.
It was a massive improvement on last week's win over Italy, but that doesn't excuse the fact that they lost a game they should have won.
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.
Each new attempted squeeze on our individual liberties is as predictable as the next isolated tragedy that provides an emotional excuse as a crisis not to be wasted.
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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They have the excuse that Mr Obama initially did far too little to woo moderate Republicans on health care, handing the project over to leftish Democrats in Congress.
She would have refused him politely had they been standing together on the ground, but, looking down at his upturned face, she felt that any excuse would be trivial.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has said health bosses must not use cost as an excuse not to fund the drug, and that decisions must be taken on a case by case basis.
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.
While the Sudanese government and the rebels continue to make excuse after excuse, the world powers on the Security Council have at least managed to pass a resolution that puts more pressure on the regime in Khartoum to stop the fighting.
In contrast, many continental Europeans, and not a few Britons, now seem to think that the war on terror was all along a bit exaggerated and has become just an excuse for America to throw its weight around.
But he's trying to take credit for something he had nothing to do with, given that this surge is taking place on private property and the EPA is searching for an excuse to supplant state regulation and slow down drilling.
They need little enough excuse to do it, and the only connection between their censorship and the war on terror is that their Western friends might be more inclined than usual to forbear from criticism in case they offend an ally in the war.
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It also will have little to show for years of work on a next-generation jeep excuse me, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle if the appropriators succeed in killing that program.
Based on this classical truth alone, the worst thing our political masters in Washington could do would be to excuse the recessionary investments that got us where we are in the first place.
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.
After the date and time of the test was announced, in the middle of September, more than fifty organizations signed a petition objecting to the experiment, in part because they fear that even to consider engineering the climate would provide politicians with an excuse for avoiding tough decisions on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
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