Finally, a certain level of financial success and the resulting power effectively excuse those who achieve it from the ordinary rules of civility and even humanity.
But Kierkegaard noted a flaw: Luther was ambitious, and to gain converts he effectively excused them from the inner struggle that gave his beliefs their meaning.
Yet IMF bureaucrats, including Americans, are effectively excused from federal, state and local income taxes.
Moreover, the academy is effectively excusing itself from deciding whether something like "Black Panther," which raised the bar for the superhero genre, is worth being the first comic-book adaptation nominated for Best Picture, one of the upcoming season's biggest questions.
Do parents have an advantage in having effectively created an excuse to do the things that seem to promote feelings of happiness, like personal interactions and a space in even a small community?
But that's no excuse for Facebook effectively duping users into joining the site in huge numbers on the pretext that they were only sharing stuff with their "friends", therefore locking them in via network effects on the basis that it was a closed/private social network – the anti-MySpace if you will – only to now be told it's all about sharing publicly after all.
Different types of policy response are required by reasons based on (a) practical obstacles, (b) clinical counter-arguments that may be part-justified, and (c) veiled excuses not to practice effectively or reflectively.
Mr. Holder effectively demolished the phony voter-fraud excuse used by Republicans supporting these laws, pointing that such fraud happens far too infrequently to justify this kind of discrimination.
"The vast majority of councils are able to house local families effectively, so there is simply no excuse for any family to be stuck in this unlawful accommodation for long periods of time," he said.
After previous collaborations, notably Rökysopp's "The Girl and the Robot," the Norwegian duo and Swedish pop star effectively made this EP as an excuse to tour together.
