More recently he has stirred controversy by partially excusing the activities of Somalia's pirates.
Inflexible punishments may be prescribed only if they represent the minimum punishment deserved under the most excusing of circumstances.
The French man politely tried to elbow his way toward the bar, excusing himself in English as he went along.
Today, alcohol also plays as significant a factor in blaming women and excusing men as the short skirt used to do.
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
But the tensions remained; the Indian cliché that these were largely due to a British policy of "divide and rule" is a self-excusing fantasy.
At the opposite end of the spectrum are those who use procrastination (again, generally not on a conscious level) as a means of excusing work which they know is of poor quality.
