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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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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 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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They found Ankastroem at his house, neither thinking of exculpation nor of flight.
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Besides, his hankering after this man had already suggested an exculpation for him.
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Thyrza's exculpation of Egremont would then have been strong upon the latter's side.
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Whether Pizarro gave any credit to the cacique's exculpation of himself may be doubted.
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For what happened next I can only cite my callow youth & inexperience in exculpation.
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Her presence there, beyond a doubt, was her exculpation.
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You will remember that your exculpation (such as it is) was volunteered by yourself.
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He need not have said one word in exculpation of himself, and that indeed he knew.
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After she had gone the marquis fell into a torrent of self-exculpation and cried for mercy.
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I wholeheartedly refuse to provide exculpation without recompense.
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He had actually prepared one, but his brutal judges would not listen to the patriot's exculpation.