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This sounds like a president looking for excuses to stand pat.
Now he derides Obama for "looking for excuses to stand pat".
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If the mistakes more or less balance out, why give Alan M. Dershowitz another excuse to stand in front of television cameras?
Cone finished the fifth with a strikeout of Mike Cameron, the 2,500th strikeout of Cone's career, and the fans used this as an excuse to stand even longer for Cone, and to beckon him for a curtain call.
This breaks the touch barrier, gently lets your date know your intentions, and gives you an excuse to stand very close all at the same time.
Let someone state a view, and let the view be subjected to rigorous scrutiny, no holds barred, and no pleas of offence, hurt feelings, self-proclaimed sensitivities, "sacredness" or any other excuse allowed to stand in the way.
Equally it can just include finding excuses or reasons to stand more and walk about more – take calls roving, read paper documents standing".
No, that is not an excuse to allow racists to stand for election.
I figured the guitar will give me an excuse to just stand there".
He is determined not to be drawn into whatever obscenity is happening behind him, but finally fear and other urgings, more shameful even than fear, drive him to stand and excuse himself.
Sister Bronte said: "I'm pleased that I got to be part of that final and I wish that final had gone differently but I'm not going to stand around and make excuses with injury and preparation.
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