During high school, he got a doctor's note to excuse him from physical education.
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More charitable commentators tend to excuse Defoe's tactics with a wink and a nudge.
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That is not to excuse the boorish, thoughtless or vile activities of powerful men who should have known better.
And you seem to excuse the role that guns play in violence in this country.
If that starts to happen, know who is going to excuse themselves from the conversation to freshen their drink.
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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He seeks to reconstruct his own past to excuse his former affiliations and to blame those who were formerly his closest associates.
However easy to explain, this phenomenon is not so easy to excuse.
However, accounting and systems chaos is the excuse used by executives and prosecutors to excuse the lack of criminal indictments of company executives.
The agencies have since tossed out words like "contagion" to describe a supposedly new phenomenon of one market souring others to excuse their tardiness.
He lied to amuse himself, to excuse himself, to camouflage himself.
For those who use the label "fear monger" to excuse themselves from intellectually engaging in the missile defense debate, it is time to examine the facts.
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 Kenyan government was worried that cheap hooch was making people seriously ill, so it offered to excuse Diageo from excise duty if it produced a cut-price beer.
This statement is not intended to excuse shoddy modeling efforts.
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Jesse Jackson is wrong to excuse the behaviour of the Decatur seven because they happen to be black, and maliciously wrong to accuse the local school board of racism.
And we cannot continue to excuse poor decisions.
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This approach can equally be used to excuse yourself for sporting a Lanvin cocktail dress to the office, when you are merely showing off ("I have a party later and can't be bothered to change").
If this sounds familiar, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the line ElBaradei and his colleague, Hans Blix, the then-head of the UN weapons inspection program in Iraq, employed to excuse Iraqi non-compliance in the run-up to war last Spring.
The irony is that the trial is being held in the courtroom of a federal district judge, Robert Potter, who declined to excuse himself from the case despite the fact that he led a citizens' anti-busing campaign before he joined the bench.
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.
It's not hard to find an excuse to sample some old favourite treats - chocolates in particular.
But the shuffle may also turn out to be an excuse to extend the transition time.
"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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Indeed, many countries are quite happy to find any excuse not to pursue it.
You never had to make a similar excuse to any girl you might be dating.
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