A lot of public health officials and a lot of policy makers use global warming as a cop-out, an excuse for not controlling a disease that is very preventable".
His grenade is marked withJapanese characters, "which obviously," says the Shanghai dispatch, "was an attempt on the part of the Chinese to make it appear the Japanese themselves were instigating acts of violence in order to given an excuse for assuming control of the International Settlement.
This isn't to excuse any manipulatively controlling behavior.
Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, has called climate change "a beautifully concocted scheme" that is "just an excuse for more government control of your life".
That same month, he told Rush Limbaugh that climate change is a liberal conspiracy: "It's just an excuse for more government control of your life and I've never been for any scheme or even accepted the junk science behind the whole narrative".
Nor is this only about sex and religion: he has also declared that climate change is a hoax, part of a "beautifully concocted scheme" on the part of "the left" to provide "an excuse for more government control of your life".
Santorum is a staunch climate change denier, declaring climate change a "scheme" of the "left" that serves as "an excuse for more government control of your life".
Moreover, the most recent guidelines, while emphasizing individualization of HbA1c targets, underline that age per se should not be an excuse for suboptimal metabolic control [ 4, 14, 15].
The threat must not be used as an excuse for unnecessary state direction and control.
Russian Communists, who still command the votes of a quarter of the electorate, are calling the crisis an excuse for the United States to seize control of Central Asia.
