Suppose that, wherever an excuse of this form is correctly applicable, we are not responsible for the action targeted by the excuse and did not act freely.
And she has a problem with some using the excuse of "this is how men talk". .
"I think we have to be careful, particularly in the media, not to create some kind of atmosphere of excuse for this kind of behaviour," he said.
There are plenty of bad excuses for this but no good explanations.
Romney has excuses for this kind of blunder: he is a foreign policy naïf, and he is desperate.
Religion shouldn't be an excuse for intolerance and our laws need to stop making excuses for this kind of close mindedness.
There are no excuses for this kind of abhorrent behavior, but remember these people are still human.
"It doesn't excuse any of this but it puts it in some perspective.
Peeters doesn't excuse any of this (who would?), though he does try to put it in context.
Claudel is also open to charges, fully justified, of authoritarianism, Islamophobia, misogyny and anti-semitism (although in an attempt to excuse himself of this last accusation, he expressed his support for France's Jewish community during the Nazi occupation).
