For Mr. Abe, it was in part an excuse to push for changes in Japan's agricultural industry, as well as an opportunity to gain tariff-free access for Japanese manufacturers to export markets in the United States and elsewhere.
By contrast, Ms. Carrasco's solo dances and the ensemble numbers she's fashioned for four excellent male dancers (RicardoLópez, José Maldonado, Pedro Córdoba, and David Coria) can seem like excuses for costume changes.
However, our statement cannot serve as an excuse for the extensive changes made by Goadsby in the HC criteria proposal.
He can usually think up some plausible excuse for making the change.
Campaigners said he had effectively removed the home secretary's "chief excuse" for resisting the change - that it would prevent people being prosecuted for swearing at police officers.
There is no excuse for ignoring climate change in the electoral process.
Dwelling on what's wrong and imperfect--gives an inappropriate excuse for not fighting for change....dwelling leads to despair which subjugates hope, that otherwise ultimate grease of effort and possibility.
And while the conceit remains from London whereby various props from the characters' lives accumulate at the rear of the stage like so much detritus, a once-arresting device no longer works as metaphor but, instead, as an excuse for some burdensome scene changes.
Others will say, "That's a starting point and now every moment I have, I'm going to look for an excuse to change my mind".
Ignorance about the looming conditions was the only excuse for the Magpies' late change – rebounding small defender Marley Williams out, ruckman Brodie Grundy in.
Admati is concerned that the analogy of "unpredictable" natural disasters ignores the fragility and distortions in the financial system and gives those who are responsible for the problems an excuse for doing little to change a bad status quo.
