It's a popular excuse among bilingual educators, but before you take it seriously, you might consider what happens when those students get the same chance I did.
A favorite excuse among the expat crowd in Shanghai for not learning Mandarin is that "the Chinese speak English, there's no need to learn Mandarin".
Whether half the league uses the prescription stimulant or not, Adderall has become a frequent excuse among players suspended for failing drug tests.
Walsh's continuing obfuscation about his plagiarism only serves to reinforce the very strong tendencies to justify and excuse dishonesty among students.
With President Obama set to accept his party's renomination in three weeks, excuses are plentiful among Democratic members of Congress from New York State — or at least those who are gearing up for tough re-election battles in November — for why they cannot attend the Democratic National Convention.
However, since the study employs a cross-sectional design the relationships between perceived walkability and good health might be due to an omitted third variable, such as a tendency to look for excuses for inactivity among persons of poor health.
People offer many excuses for their inactivity, among them a lack of time and routes that are not safe for pedestrians or cyclists.
These were among the excuses given by British officials following General Gordon's disastrous foray into the Sudan against the Mahdi Army in 1884-85, which ended, as legend has it, with his simultaneous puncturing by the spears of four dervishes.
Among the excuses the workers gave included fears of losing their current hard-to-get, high-paying jobs and of being blacklisted from similar, future jobs (George et al. 2011).
So in 1971 Hinrichs launched the first of a handful of homely trade magazines Electronic Components, Timepieces, Gifts & Home Products among them bare excuses to showcase light-industrial goods, from apparel and toys to watches and consumer electronics.
