But these were, I suppose, flimsy excuses for putting off what I knew would someday be inevitable.
Is that supposed to excuse inaction?
Daniel Knapp Mill Valley, Calif., Aug. 16, 2009 To the Editor: Supposed bipartisanship is a poor excuse for the Democratic Party, elected to reform, to be folding like a lawn chair on the "public option" proposed by President Obama.
In all it is a very nice, well-thought out, impressive effort from the folks up in Redmond (by the way, it's still a mystery as to why this event was held in Los Angeles, but I suppose it was a nice excuse for us tech-focused folks to visit the headquarters of glitz and glam).
I suppose it provides a nice excuse for doing whatever the hell we want.
But if they know in advance that they'll have a chance to get to email to "sign off on that important deal they're supposed to close" there is no excuse for not giving you undivided attention for the time you have together.
He held up an embarrassing excuse for what was supposed to be a pint of the black stuff at the Friends of Ireland luncheon in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, and immediately made Twitter users seethe with anger.
Mr Thaksin's supposed disrespect for the king was yet another of the coupmakers' excuses, though they failed to produce any evidence of it.
It means that the Council must not be allowed to use the excuse of supposed considerations of efficiency for persisting with the intergovernmental financing of agriculture and, as seems likely, foreign policy and justice.
Indeed, despite all of the tub-thumping about the supposed new Russian threat, Vladimir Putin is a poor excuse for Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler.
