Before Dad's Army made the catchphrase "may I be excused sir?" famous, Ridley wrote more than 30 plays, of which only The Ghost Train achieved notable success, running for 665 performances at St Martin's theatre and being adapted for the cinema three times.
Rioting and intimidation over the removal of the union flag from Belfast city hall cannot be excused, Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, has told the regional parliament at Stormont.
Answer yes to one or both of these and you are excused.
Elia Kazan - the friend who had denounced so many decent Americans and would have denounced Miller had he known of his earlier communist associations - was excused if not exonerated.
With Jason Kreis's future continuing to be a looming cloud of despair, one would be excused for thinking the future of the club was hanging in the balance.
There was that time, too, at the engagement picnic in Hyde Park, when I excused myself from all the socialising and went and stood by a bush.
Disappointed in reality, love turns inward, the self becomes idealised, doted upon, admired and excused.
In every year since then the budget has risen faster than inflation.Some of this could be excused by the economic boom: New York was growing richer, and inevitably the public sector wanted to share in the new wealth.
Most of the rest were positioning themselves for the game.He excused himself and drifted off to the far corner of the room.
So central banks can be excused for sitting back and enjoying the bull run, especially as any action they could plausibly take to halt it would damage a still-fragile economy.A different paradox of thriftNevertheless, equity investors should keep a level head.
(Had the ape been trained to read?)These mis-statements could be excused as hype, or errors based on faulty intelligence.
