That's not to excuse prices that are genuinely too high, and devices like the iPad mini might still fall into that camp.
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"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".
Nodianos was drunk, "but that's not a justification or excuse, " his lawyer said.
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One of them turned to her and said 'Excuse me, that's not part of our history'.
"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.
But that's a description of the difficulty, not an excuse for failure.
Rep. ROSS: FEMA's excuse that they give, which is not a good one, is that they won't locate a manufactured home to a flood plain.
This is not to excuse Merrill Lynch's analysts, and especially not the cloddish e-mails that they sent, employing scatological language to abuse companies whose merits they were touting so ardently to investors.
Mr Estrada's oft-repeated excuse for not taking action is that the government does not have the money to do the things he would like it to do.
He added that the illegality of whaling in Australian waters did not excuse Sea Shepherd's activities.
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