Washington's primary role doesn't excuse Wall Street's excesses, but it puts them in proper perspective.
Senators coach Paul MacLean didn't excuse his team's poor performance for much of the game.
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.
To prosecutors, the 26-year-old Swartz was a thief whose aims to make information available didn't excuse the illegal acts he was charged with: breaking into a wiring closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tapping into its computer network to download millions of paid-access scholarly articles, which he planned to share publicly.
The complex causes of gun crime "can't be an excuse for inaction", he said.
You can't use the excuse that you want to save money to put it in the company.
"We really don't have an excuse anymore, " said Jeremy Lin, one of three Houston starters making their first career playoff apperance.
The lack of scheduling shouldn't be an excuse, but it was tough.
"I can't see any excuse for not overtaking Honda in the U.S. market, " Nissan Executive Vice President Colin Dodge said in an interview earlier this week.
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.
But Mr. Karzai, a palace insider said, didn't buy the excuse, believing that he had been deliberately snubbed by Mr. Obama as punishment for his statements criticizing the course of the war.
And don't expect that poor excuse for a Rebel army to do anything about it.
Too bad Alex can't use the same excuse when he applies, as he is at prep school back in Massachusetts.
Americans don't need much of an excuse to tap into their 401(k) accounts.
Though that excuse doesn't really hold up with the geofences alert system, unless the employer's going to claim it's aiding with employee alcohol abuse.
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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Did former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican, who couldn't come up with an excuse so he simply disappeared to meet his Argentinian lover, think no one would find out?
"This isn't going to be an excuse to eat French fries all day and watch TV but is a way to augment your healthy lifestyle and give you the ultimate benefits of perfect health which your body is capable of, " Professor Sinclair told the BBC.
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Whether the absentees are scared or lazy or both is unclear - maybe they just saw a better weather forecast for this week than I saw - but what is clear is that American golfers don't need much of an excuse not to leave America.
And we certainly can't do it just as an excuse to give me another tax cut.
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But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
"The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all, " she said.
"I don't use the regional instability as an excuse not to move forward, " he says, referring to Jordan's economic liberalization.
While Tortorella didn't want to use injuries as an excuse, New York was severely hampered by the loss of key defenseman Marc Staal (eye), who played in only one postseason game, and rugged forward Ryane Clowe, who was limited to two.
But the others didn't get supply up front so you can excuse Fletcher and Kyle a little.
Excuse me if I don't exactly see terrorists getting excited about kidnapping anyone from the alcohol industry.
And please remember that we tend to get a lot of applications whenever we do one of these, so excuse us if we don't email back -- we can't reply to everyone!
But instead of fessing up that he had obeyed only the letter of the law, he insisted yesterday that, gee whiz, the earlier tax dodge didn't even occur to him -- an excuse that came off as legalistic and implausible.
But despite a flat fourth quarter, in which he shot 0-for-6, Anthony said he didn't want to use the heavy minutes as an excuse.
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