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No excuses here. Our scores have to come up,

No excuses. We played as well as we could have. St. Bonaventure just played better.

no excuse to break the law and show such flagrant contempt for the courts of British Columbia.

Now that McDonnell has removed the primary excuse given for the failure to act that it was not necessary to do so we will be looking to the legislature to make it clear what the state's policy is. If the members of the General Assembly refuse to make an affirmative statement, one must only assume that they think it's appropriate to discriminate.

Now they have no excuse for letting up ? ever. This is why I was so frustrated at the beginning of the season, because I knew we were capable of playing at a certain level. That we were able to play it with Artem out is proof we should have been doing it all along.

People were looking to sell the zloty as it's done very well and Balcerowicz provided an excuse to do so. Any uncertainty in Poland is always going to come from politics, providing reasons to sell the currency.

If the Senate were to reject the treaty, then it would be highly publicized worldwide. It would be an open excuse for countries like India and Pakistan to continue nuclear testing which I think is very undesirable, destabilizing that area of the world,

I don't have an excuse, I flat out stunk, plain and simple. I just didn't throw a strike. I usually say we lose as a team, but I lost that one, coming in and walking three guys. I take full responsibility.

I don't have an explanation or excuse for it. They played better than we did and we weren't very good. That makes it 8-2.

If this government has got an ounce of honor left, Charles Clarke has got to go. There is no excuse for this devastating failure to protect the public.

If we had made those shots, we could have been right in there at the end. There's no excuse for those missed free throws.

If we execute, we will, excuse the pun, Eclipse the Microsoft environment. Microsoft is worried about the passion of what open-source software means to developers.

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

We're continuing to do the same things we did two or three years ago, ... It's an excuse to take more money out of the citizens' pockets.

We're continuing to see retailers cite the weather for either making or breaking their sales numbers. Frankly, I think is an excuse tailored to satisfy Wall Street. Wall Street is a little more forgiving if a major retailer blames weather for disappointing sales.

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

My job is the perfect excuse for watching action films, soaps, quiz programmes -- where the language is busy right now.

Maybe we were a little overbought after yesterday. That scared some people and they started taking profits ...With stocks trading at this level, people are looking for any excuse to worry.

She keeps the office lively all the time. So this is just an excuse for her to be more boisterous.

She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.

She did well with her location. It's been a bad spring for being outdoors, but that's no excuse because everyone's had the same problem. I told them to forget this game and not to even think about it, offensively and defensively.

She deserved to win this one, I was a little bit lucky, ... I have no excuse for serving like that.

Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.

Many times, all it takes is a glance or a gentle 'Excuse me,' and you turn back and watch the movie.

Many people will use the excuse that we are small, but rebounding is effort. It is how much you want the ball and has nothing to do with how big you are.

Many people living in these neighborhoods suffer. But nothing can excuse such useless, such blind violence like we saw,

Many people may use the excuse that we're small, but rebounding is effort. It has nothing to do with your size. It's how badly you want the ball. From that aspect, that's the only thing we didn't do right.

Many of our customers use the Super Bowl as an excuse to upgrade their home entertainment centers, whether they?re watching the game or not. We seem to be doing well enough without the Patriots? help.

So many dead ... It's a tragedy, ... Excuse me, but I must return home right away.

Short-term, the market is looking for an excuse to sell off. Year-to-date, you've got the Nasdaq up almost 46 percent, the Dow up nearly 20 percent, the S&P 500 up 22 percent, and there's a bit of a 'take the money and run' sentiment.

She worked well, and we're planning on running (in the Distaff,) ... She had a major excuse in the Beldame because of a reoccurring breathing problem. We think we've got it corrected. She didn't have surgery; we treated it with antibiotics.

The only mitigating circumstance in this case is, we know she did suffer from a mental illness. That did not necessarily excuse her conduct or criminal responsibility, but we did take that into account.

I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Guess there's no excuse for anyone to ever get lost out on the water again.

The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place.

There are so many enthusiasts for chorale music, for a cappella, here, ... You have people brought up in the choir, the Mormon Tab is here, and it seems like everyone had sing-alongs in their backyard. Yet, we don't have a venue or event that really celebrates this music. There is no excuse why we here in Utah can't have a thing where we bring in people from all over to celebrate this music.

He likes to show by example. Even when he's in pain or he's not getting around well, he shows that no matter what, whatever may be hindering you, you can get past that. You can contribute ... He is an example for kids that anyone in the community who has an excuse, that there are no excuses.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him

Fukui will probably reiterate prospects for steady economic recovery. Even if Fukui says the same thing as before, some investors will use it as an excuse to buy the yen as the dollar is going through a short- term decline.

I feel no excuse is good enough for what's been going on in the past few weeks,

I feel fine now. It's not an excuse, I really feel fine now.

I got a question, ... Do you got any excuses tonight, Roy?

I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.

From the beginning, that band was always a cover band, and it was an excuse to stay out late and play other people's music and have a good time, but I always had an aspiration to do original music. I jumped at the chance when Dave presented it to me.

For various reasons and excuses we were missing a lot of players and won this game with a lot of young kids on the field. It's a good feeling.

For whatever reason we did get complacent. For a game we had total control, we were winning, great teams find ways to win and keep leads, especially at this point in the season. There's no excuse for it. But thank God it wasn't a team that (was) chasing us or needed the points, which was a good thing.

I excuse myself as it wasn't the most beautiful performance. But I worked for 12 years for this moment. The most important thing is I won the decision and the championship.

I don't want this kid just to make an excuse like he was hurt just because he was giving it up,

I don't want this kid just to make an excuse that he was hurt just because he was giving it up.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.

If it were not for losers, there would be nothing for the enabler to do. Their sole purpose in life is making excuses for the losers. The enablers are amazing. They have a ready made excuse for everything.

Bush isn't even here, ... He's got a good excuse not to be here.

But (the protests) will not be violent. We ... will do everything we can so the authorities do not have the slightest excuse to use force against the people.

Hats off to them. We are lucky to get out of here with a win. They (Riverdale) earned my respect. Mainly, I am very disappointed in our rebounding effort tonight. Plus, we let their zone get to us in the fourth quarter, throwing the ball away on long skip passes. There's no excuse for that.

He's a demon. He said he needed money for Christmas gifts. It's the lamest excuse I could hear.

Having our top player out is not an excuse. We came to win and we didn't win. We had the lead at halftime and we didn't get it done as a team.

Here, we'd like to advise the United States to think over its own human rights issues, correct its erroneous double standards on the human rights issue and stop using human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.

We take any incident like this very, very seriously. Obviously, kids could have been hurt by this device. If this was a prank, or whatever motive they had in doing this, there's no excuse to do something like this.

I allowed myself to relax, and there's just no excuse for it. Anytime you relax on that field, big plays can happen. We can't let that happen in games like this.

Hundreds of children have been recovered through the Amber Alert plan, and the ability to ultimately deliver these alerts directly to the phones of nearly 200 million wireless subscribers can dramatically increase the reach of the program. Bottom line, if you have a wireless phone of any kind, there's no excuse for not being a subscriber to wireless Amber Alerts.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse -- what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

He comes across not as a kind of demented Christian but somebody where religious zeal is clearly there to see, ... Almost like he's using his religion as an excuse for what he is doing.

He can't use that excuse anymore that he's got a thankless job. He can actually do something good and get noticed for it.

If that's your only excuse -- that your CFO was running rampant -- then that's negligence.

If the Fed has a bit of an itchy trigger finger, the ECI headline number gives them the excuse to go sooner rather than later. It does increase the odds of a tightening on Aug. 24.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

He will take the blame (if things go wrong). He's never one time made an excuse of anybody else. He's so humble in what he's been given. He realizes his God-given gift and that's the most amazing thing about him. He's going to be hard to replace.

He's got to have some sort of excuse not to play. I mean, serious excuse.

We expect to get the job done. There won't be any excuses being made.

We can make all the excuses we want but part of it is we don't have many sophomores out there and we've got a lot of freshmen out there playing college basketball for the first time. Sometimes going through something like this gives you a comfort level the next time.

He doesn't want to make any excuses. If he got lit up, he's going to say that he got lit up, and he's not going to say it was because of this or that. That's the way he is.

There is great concern that those who oppose (Louisville metro government's) efforts to curb industrial use of the public's air for waste disposal will seek to use the future development of a state air toxics program as an excuse for eliminating the current STAR program.

There is no excuse for Arab Sunnis to boycott the vote now that we have responded to all their demands and suggestions,

There is no excuse for failing to declare one's business interests. It is simply a matter of filling out a form. Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of interest or even contempt for the Parliamentary ethics process. Either way, there must be consequences.

There is no excuse for getting outworked. We should have had 45 shots on goal instead of 31. You have to win your home games. Our power play was fine, but Parley was the difference.

there is no excuse for it; it has to stop.

There is no excuse for me not getting better. I just have to get better. But all things considered this is a good start to the season.

There is no excuse for this to happen, period. We do not question their (Saudi officials') sincerity of serving pilgrims. We do question the resources allocated.

There is no excuse for what happened against Florida. Nobody should be able to play bump-and-run coverage against us like that.

There is no excuse for what I did,

There is no excuse for Wyoming to be so far behind, 20 years behind, in the energy race when your senator sits on the Senate energy committee.

There is no excuse not to play. We're both playing in the higher class. From our standpoint, those are the people we have to play.

There is no excuse or justification for the Sunni brothers to boycott after we accepted all their demands and suggestions without changing a letter in them, ... Their task now is to participate with us and vote 'yes' for the constitution, and cooperate with us to fight terrorism and the people who want to destroy the country.

There is no excuse these days for someone who wants to make movies; you just need yourself, one tape and a borrowed camera.

There is no explanation or excuse for not coming. There are rules of court that should be obeyed and Mr. Knight is making a mockery of it.

He fought through this most of his career. He's not an excuse-maker, but I've got to believe his arm was just hanging.

Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.

Just then the lady of the house came walking in and saw me with my pants down, wrapped around my ankles, as if I was posing half naked. I stood there in shock, just as surprised and shocked as she was. I said, 'Oh my, excuse me.' I couldn't do anything. I had the paint can in one hand and the paintbrush in the other. I then turned around, put my brush and can down and pulled my pants up. It was the funniest thing. Luckily I had my underwear on.

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Many factors have conspired to make this cholera outbreak one of the worst ever seen in Angola. But with what we know today there can be no excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the death toll from climbing much higher.

That city is just looking for an excuse to get together and party. I loved my time there.

Starting with the recession in the mid-70's, the worse the economy got the better Wal-Mart sales would be. Now, like everybody else, Wal-Mart is using every excuse in the book to disguise company-specific problems.

Regardless of what excuse we want to make, we have to do a better job of getting the ball to Tony Gonzalez 's hands. He set an all-time record in the history of the National Football League with 102 catches last year and I'm certainly not going to panic because he's not at that pace right now.

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

State House in particular has a special position in security of any country world over. The question of money not being there is no excuse and borrowing became necessary.

Our police officers are working under some very trying times. So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be.