"This is an excuse that nobody in their right mind would accept or understand, " Mr Santos said.
This is an excuse from someone who does not understand networking at all.
This is an excuse often given for the maddeningly slow pace of reform in India, its stop-go cycles and its constant back-pedalling.
All of this is an excuse for the stars to perform, with varying degrees of skill, the greatest hits of Abba, some of which, regrettably, do not survive the disfigurement.
But this is usually just an excuse: raising revenues is generally the main objective.
Some might say this is as good an excuse as any.
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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.
This, then, is used as an excuse to rush Bulger to trial before his rather skimpy legal team can be fully prepared.
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This argument over price volatility is simply an excuse: food commodity speculation is bad just because it is and it must be stopped.
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But the fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing.
If you spoke to the reservationist directly, then there is no excuse for this type of an error.
This is why fears about the possibility of defaults are not an excuse for ignoring the entire asset class.
The danger, however, is that the Bank's shareholders would use this as an excuse to cut their own foreign-aid budgets still more.
Unfortunately, there is a temptation to hide behind this complexity and use it as an excuse for poor communications.
The Big Ten tournament is just as trivial: This year's was nothing more than an excuse for regional rivals to treat each other like cookie dough.
And if you need an excuse to pull this article out in the fall, Sept. 16 is Mexican Independence Day.
Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.
"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.
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