You may need to fake it, especially if the family member really knows how to push your buttons but by staying polite and refusing to argue, cry or make excuses beyond your initial explanation, you don't leave them with a lot of ground to keep arguing.
It only gives your kids an excuse.' " Beyond the achievement of the all-Big East final, Tranghese said he was proud that his member universities got the message Dave Gavitt, the man he succeeded as the commissioner, put out years ago.
Letting it go abroad means Iran has no excuse to enrich beyond 3.5% at its known plants.
Even some of the people who agree absolutely that Foley's death was far, far beyond excuse would argue that part of the problem with westerners is that we only listen when other westerners are telling the stories.
But last weekend, Mr. Karzai showed a truly sinister side in accusing the United States of colluding with the Taliban on suicide attacks to keep Afghanistan unstable and to give forces an excuse to stay beyond the troop withdrawal deadline, at the end of 2014.
There was the heady combination of limitless, unaccountable money and little time; the usual excuse for going beyond ethical limits was to suppose that "someone planted an A-bomb in one of our cities and we had twelve hours to find out from a person where it was.
If the reports are correct, he committed atrocities beyond any excuse.
As if hard work and talent were confined to the super-rich, these terms are now used as a convenient excuse for pay far beyond the dreams of avarice.
These preseason games usually carry little meaning beyond an excuse for fans to tailgate, but this year's batch has presented something different: an unintentional comedy routine from a roster of replacement officials, many of whom might have had trouble even dreaming about working at the game's highest level just a few months ago.
Beyond providing an excuse to indulge in hot dogs and fireworks, the Fourth of July weekend can still call to mind the struggle around the event the holiday commemorates, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
