"It was a time of unimaginable pressure on him... under the circumstances one might excuse an affair so far from home, so immersed in the fate of his men and their cause".
I am struggling to think of something that might excuse this level of saloon-bar ignorance.
"A terrified expression spread across her features and she asked if I might excuse her," de Botton writes.
Plenty did, and with more understanding of the context, you might excuse many of those who didn't.
Dr. McLaren said he planned to go to the dinner but might excuse himself from the room when the flag was returned.
Today Israeli officials were furious over what they saw as a suggestion by Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, that frustration over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might excuse terrorism.
But the UK's policy choices will not find refuge so easily, since there the output path has now diverged below what a wide range of plausible historical projections might excuse.
If this were a show written by teen-agers, you might excuse the clumsy set design, flat singing, melodramatic book, dull lyrics, and dated score, but unfortunately that isn't the case.
In fact, the degree of refinement was impressive throughout, from the polished look under the hood to the absence of rattles and squeaks one might excuse in a car that is still far from an assembly-line product.
A12 British Official Angers Israel Israeli officials were furious over what they saw as a suggestion by Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, that frustration over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might excuse terrorism.
