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Weather was the first excuse given, although the sky was perfectly clear.
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Of course, this recognition is not to excuse terrorism in any way.
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The Taoiseach said yesterday that there was no excuse for the violence.
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Chang was right, and the excuse of immediate danger no longer applied.
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Waits said he should not need to excuse himself from the case.
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I do hope to make the alibi a fact in truth, however.
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But of course the journey's true purpose was to arrange an alibi.
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But by January 1987 he was forced to seek a new alibi.
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Of course, in turn she provided an alibi for Fu, as well.
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And I don't really know why he'd need an alibi for Emerald.
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The following morning they discovered the final self-exculpation next to his body.
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They made habit and bad example almost a sufficient exculpation from crime.
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Nothing like the need for self-exculpation to get your blood pressure up.
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It cannot affect him; but these two shall hear your exculpation of him.
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She fought on the consuming fire to have her exculpation heard.
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And the speech was long on self-justification on phone tapping and Iraq.
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He might have answered her in kind, but self-justification passed his power.
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The second faction against our Mother Tongue springs from a malicious self-justification.
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THAT was what came of my intended self-justification and plea for mercy!
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Why, I shall be forced, in self-justification, to carry through the farce!'
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The exercise, however, offered Ministers a platform for self-justification and obfuscation.
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You know all the arguments, all the self-justification of those days.
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Now he exclaimed in self-justification: Why, I war sure, plumb sure, I thought.
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It was a last attempt at self-justification, at moderating his defeat.
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There was no attempt at self-justification for these sinister reflections-theyneeded no justification.
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Confronted with the gracious figure, how should he think of self-justification!
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This, of course, is the ultimate self-justification of the colonialist.
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Lady Louisa Barking could not control a movement of self-justification.
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Even more than photography, the ready-made object struck at the heart of painting's self-justification.
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It was a contemptuous denial of her own flimsy self-justification.
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He was at it again, back at his eternal self-justification.