Lack of practical needs can become an excuse for health care workers to justify their fear of HIV infection and their reluctance to provide good services for HIV-infected people [ 7, 24].
Apprentices must rise at 4 a.m. to dance and bathe in a river, but he wanted Miss Ntuli excused from this duty for fear of pneumonia.
In truth there is no threat, just a useful excuse for sabre-rattling and fear politics.
Remember that boredom can often be an excuse for covering up your fear of pushing yourself beyond what you already know.
Peter B. Teeley, then the spokesman for the campaign, remembers arguing against addressing the rumors, for fear of giving journalists an excuse to broadcast them.
Her party has begged its "red shirt" supporters not to protest, for fear of giving the junta an excuse to prolong its rule.
When, on Sunday evening, Belgian police asked citizens not to tweet about the armed operations that were being carried out around the country, anyone could have been excused for reacting with fear.
I have seen this fear used as an excuse for not firing underperforming executives many times, but I have never seen this fear materialize.
In 1591 the authorities reported that John Shakespeare had missed church "for fear of process for debt", a common Catholic excuse.
She called herself a "blue dot in a red borough," and then excused herself; she did not want to say much more, for fear of alienating her customers.
In his summation at the court-martial, James F. Coakley, the prosecutor, argued that "fear was no excuse" for the men's behavior.
