Cheney probably picked up Paks in his Pentagon days, but innocent intent is an excuse only once; now he is sensitized, as are we all.
He used the fact that Oracle landed its largest "on-demand sales force automation contract this quarter," as an excuse to once again proclaim the company's superiority to its cloud computing, software-as-a-service rival Salesforce.com.com
Republicans in the House of Representatives launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood, and used the controversy as an excuse to once again try to take away the organization's federal funding.
In one blunt speech, which the steely Ms Cheney repeated in Jordan, he has said that America made a mistake in having spent 60 years excusing the lack of freedom in the Middle East.The Arab authoritarians on whose behalf those excuses were once made can only feel chilled by such remarks.
Lack of jobs and social opportunities were excuses that once held weight for sympathetic observers of the Protestant working class.
My boys remember to ask to be excused about once out of four times.
Sunday's final could be an excuse to celebrate once again, though, and Spurs can take hope from the choice of referee: Chris Foy, from Merseyside.
It might, without undue exaggeration, be said that the United States entered the postwar period with only a vision of a postwar economic world and few political war aims at all, and thus had little excuse for indignation once Stalin set out methodically to realize his own aims.
You may not use this excuse more than once a week or the teacher might see it as a joke and next time you want to use this excuse again it might not work.
