If the studio head's star casting misfires at the box office, he or she has an excuse.
Or is it an excuse to ride the E3 hype train?
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If you decided to stay home from work today because your psychic told you to, would you tell your boss the truth or make up an excuse?
Ignorance may be bliss, but it is neither an acceptable or plausible excuse given these facts.
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Could Mr. Schnatter be setting himself up to make a few extra pennies per pie using Obamacare as an excuse or is he simply exaggerating his plight to sell his political narrative?
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In my experience many of the soldiers who commit crimes punishable by either civil laws or the UCMJ commonly fabricate an excuse for their behavior.
If you get a manager who comes into the dressing-room who is in any way weak, or who wasn't the best trainer or the most dedicated, the current players will see that as an excuse to not be the best trainers or most dedicated themselves.
Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable.
These lists can often be used as an excuse by investors or traders to not do their own research as some just blindly follow the advice.
With Ford, simplicity could be vice as much as virtue an excuse for ignoring (or mistreating) associates and avoiding hard decisions.
Keep all your business and career books in your Apple iPAD or Amazon Kindle, and never have an excuse for not reading.
Saving money through an amended sequester should not be an excuse for continuing wasteful domestic or military programs, discretionary or mandatory.
But this new rule also protects employees by discouraging employers from using health reform as an excuse to cut their benefits or increase their cost sharing.
"Never use it as an excuse to give up your goal or abandon your resolution, " he said.
Lawyers are already speculating that some companies will attempt to use the attack as an excuse to back out of mergers or other business deals.
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.
Had Del Priore been covering them for Patch, or had he merely used his work there as an excuse to get access to athletes, it would be a very different story.
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"When Tory ministers blame the Human Rights Act, it's usually an excuse not to sort out the problem or a cover for their own failing policies, " he said.
"This is an excuse that nobody in their right mind would accept or understand, " Mr Santos said.
In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has become an excuse to celebrate Mexican culture often with a round or two of libations.
But in general, it allows voters to cast ballots in person before Election Day using either voting machines or so-called absentee ballots -- without having to provide an excuse.
Unfortunately, Stantum's software has hardly evolved, and doesn't show much of an excuse for the "perfect" touchscreen outside of artistic or limited gaming applications.
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Although the series of romantic days used to cater more towards couples, or those wanting to confess their secret loves using a romantic day as an excuse, in recent years, goodie-gifting on Valentine's Day and White Day has expanded to include family, co-workers and pretty much anyone you come into contact with on those days.
While voters often deliver vague or contradictory messages to victorious politicians, critics say that limitation shouldn't be an excuse to exclude broad debates over the economy from the democratic process.
Given half an excuse, he would happily seek an alternative coalition with the Christian Democrats or, rather less happily, with Germany's liberals, the Free Democrats.
An invite to dinner, drinks, a movie or shopping will be met with a similar excuse.
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Shelling out billions for an acquisition would be an easy excuse for Comcast to cool its heels on capital return for a time or even pull back.
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Many developing countries either haven't the resources or, when help is offered, the will to adopt proper standards, seeing them as an excuse for slowing down scientific exchange.
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"We were tired for four or five months, so we got used to it, but I'd never use that as an excuse, " Ranger Barry said.
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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).
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