None can be considered ' revisionist ' in elucidating an apologia for colonialism or in excusing sins of commission and omission for which the colonialists bore responsibility.
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Because of this, worthy men are entangled in regulations, and degenerates only make excuses.
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She covers him with cushions, and excuses herself, apparently to get undressed.
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He does not pay attention to the scientific background of each expedition, but this can be excused, as he is not a historian of science.
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The 1639 charter excused clerks 'from all offices, unless they desire or yield themselves thereunto'; such offices would presumably have been both civic and parochial.
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One of their excuses is that they have to control local pollution first.
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They also know that those who call them untranslatable are excusing themselves from engaging in acts of interpretation.
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If the wet-nurse was perceived as too poor, the fee was excused.
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Thus, excuses are an important component to a comprehensive understanding of the blame process.
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The excuses, however, retain their character as individualized concessions of mercy.
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His rules of conduct are stripped, inter alia, of any reference to a mental element or aggravating features, as well as to the excuses.
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By saying that he does not concern himself with feminism he excuses himself from having to acknowledge the power-effects of his own writing.
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Duress is (in some cases) an excusing condition.
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Any one of these excuses, if true, should lead to an acquittal.
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Let us call the defenses so grouped the broad excuses.
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excuse
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convenient excuse
This may sometimes serve as aconvenientexcusefor international inaction.
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feeble excuse
With this feeble excuse, he assumes that he is explaining the faulty passages in bluebooks and papers, passages which are vague, even incoherent.
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flimsy excuse
That is not so terrible in itself and it is a flimsy excuse for hurting many thousands with less than that.
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