No player has been elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously: a few writers found dubious excuses to leave players as great as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Cal Ripken and Tom Seaver off their ballots.
He tells us that Herod the Great, in the days when he was not yet king and his political position was dubious, excused the members of the sect from taking an oath of loyalty, but makes it clear that this was due to one of them having "slapped him on the backside," seeing him in the street one day, and having predicted that he would one day be king.
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The court, once an important force for fairness in American society, now routinely finds dubious legal excuses to deny relief to criminal defendants, consumers and workers who have been mistreated.
But Ms. Birthler quit as minister, declaring that she could not stand by in tacit approval of "excuses, dubious explanations and delayed or halfhearted confessions".
10 PE is a compulsory subject There has been a big rise in children saying they can't do PE, or bringing a note from home, and some excuses are dubious to say the least (for example, an ankle problem that seems to go on for months, or a cold that only afflicts the child on one particular day of the week).
And then there was the Maureen Dowd incident, for which there isn't really an excuse, but which still cast a dubious light on the safety of edibles.
You'll have to excuse me if I sound a little dubious about Chase's reasoning behind the policy change.
They've seized on dubious arguments, touted obviously weak evidence as definitive, looked for excuses either not to act themselves or for their friends not to act.
