"Nobody is … excusing Russia's meddling in our elections," he said.
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He turned down the hallway and left without excusing himself.
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Perhaps we should think about redeeming rather than excusing ourselves.
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" She added, "I'm not excusing Caitlyn, I'm just saying it's forgivable.
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Nonetheless, Mr. Betts, their stern creator, is excusing none of them.
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First by politely excusing myself, then by breaking into a run.
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Republicans spent most days excusing Trump's tweets and White House scandals.
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And I&aposm not excusing any of the behavior on the right.
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Kindergartners. Stop excusing bad behavior by bringing up someone else's bad behavior.
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Díaz surely knows his trauma can explain his actions without excusing them.
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They lead people to take sides, excusing or condemning, but inevitably dividing.
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Excusing boys of their behavior is not a step in the right direction.
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Minimizing, discounting and excusing anti-Semitic attacks is a dangerous path to follow.
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Cohen, for his part, took pains to explain Roshi's transgressions without excusing them.
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"I've been doing that for 33 years," she responds, before belching and excusing herself.
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If that's true, the thinking goes, then there's no principled basis for excusing Ginsburg.
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Plus, the company partners with ethical factories, so I'm excusing myself for this one.
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Ellis reminded jurors before excusing them to refrain from discussing the case with anyone.
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By excusing tributaries and adjacent waters from meeting this test, two things are accomplished.
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"Excusing violence — in any way — is entirely unacceptable," Scholten said in a statement Wednesday.
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Rogers sometimes takes her fandom too far, excusing legitimate issues raised by Coppola's work.
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Excusing a juror because of a planned vacation, while uncommon, is not unheard-of.
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Republicans deeply underestimated the time they'd spend excusing Trump's tweets and White House scandals.
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The senator plowed incident-free through a few minutes of questions before excusing himself.
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The situation has led to Jones taunting Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg seemingly excusing Holocaust deniers.
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And I don't support excusing abusive behavior of any kind on account of creative genius.
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Now that they realize the magnitude of their error, she's decided to stop excusing them.
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Spacey allegedly gave him alcohol and touched his genitals before excusing himself to the bathroom.
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Time for media to stop hiring them, excusing their misogyny while professing to respect women.
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"I better help this young lady out," he said, excusing himself to offer his arm.
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My point: Raising concerns over Hunter Biden does not mean you are excusing Trump's actions.
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But most important, excusing Trump as merely ill lets him off the hook too easily.
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It's about Renee Montoya standing up and excusing herself from a corrupt group of police officers.
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First, insurers started excusing themselves, saying that they could no longer work with the Iranian company.
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There can be no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it.
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But it's really his way of excusing his ignorance, costuming his incompetence and greenlighting his hooliganism.
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Mainstream media outlets have fawned over the deal, excusing its lack of serious details and specifics.
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When you take those, and I'm not excusing those two, but it helps to understand them.
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Excusing racial profiling with this pardon is only the latest in Trump's attacks on immigrant families.
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"I'm not excusing the bad acts of a few, and neither are they," Mr. Sitrick said.
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"I'm still in the planning stages," Mr. Carter said, before excusing himself for his evening meal.
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But "Truman" has a different flaw: its insistence on excusing tired standards of machismo, however understated.
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"So how are we excusing the death of a Kenyan who worked for the IEBC?" he said.
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His backers spent three hours excusing their hero of each contradiction or untruth alleged by his foes.
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"I sincerely applaud Dem leadership for not excusing her bigoted and hateful comments toward @Israel," Huckabee tweeted.
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It is past time to stop excusing or ignoring or, worse, endorsing these attacks on the truth.
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He then disappears as quickly as he showed up, excusing himself to check on the musician lineup.
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That "The Americans" makes you care about the answer without excusing the characters is its great accomplishment.
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Costco had argued that "Tiffany" had become a generic term, excusing its use on a standalone basis.
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"Hurt people hurt people," he says, not excusing the white gay men responsible, but seeing the context.
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Let me make this abundantly clear: In no way am I approving or excusing Moore's alleged conduct.
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But there is no excusing ourselves from wrestling with national memory by virtue of our personal geography.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign released a doctor's note Tuesday excusing her absence from the campaign trail this past week.
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" Pelosi on "meltdown" pic Trump posted of their meeting: "I think I was excusing myself from the room.
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"We need to make sure this social movement is louder than those excusing this deplorable behaviour," he says.
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Obviously that is Very Bad, and there's no excusing it, but she also donated the money to Haiti.
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Chrisette, Steve Harvey, Zoey Saldana all act like they are doing something positive for POCs by excusing Trump.
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The normalization of hate speech contributes to excusing the unjust killings of numerous unarmed black and brown people.
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Or, the judge could take the highly unusual step of excusing Juror No. 7 and not replacing her.
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Nirrim's caretaker constantly gaslights and abuses her, yet Nirrim persists in loving her and excusing all her faults.
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Audiard smiled at the man and said, "Me too," before excusing himself to return to his whirlwind schedule.
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Trump banned most travel to the US from 26 countries in Europe, notably excusing the UK and Ireland.
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His cult of personality meant that others were looped in by covering up and excusing what he did.
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Also, don't cut the video feed without explanation—it's like walking out of the room without excusing yourself. Rude!
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Judges averted a showdown over his attendance by excusing him from attending for health reasons at the last minute.
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One of my housemates sneakily requests to pause the movie by excusing himself to get drinks in the kitchen.
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Stories abound of Monson excusing himself from important meetings because of a sense that somebody elsewhere needed his help.
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This is not about fawning over or excusing Hollywood luminaries; it's about conserving law enforcement resources, and smart policing.
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On medical rounds I felt uncomfortable excusing myself to pump for fear of being considered not a team player.
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Men also need to stop enabling harassers by egging them on or covering up or excusing their bad behavior.
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" For having the temerity to defend himself, Mr. Packer was accused on social media of "excusing racism" and "whitesplaining.
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The terms are also viewed as a means of excusing First World responsibility to provide material support and solidarity.
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They need to stop excusing men because of their politics, and start building a party that represents all Americans.
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Calling out white women's continued support of conservative politicians isn't excusing or ignoring white men's commitment to electing these candidates.
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We can quibble over what particular criminal statutes their alleged actions violate, but no one seems to be excusing them.
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And this is not excusing anybody — you just have to wait and see how it settles over the long haul.
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There's no more doubting it, no more excusing it, no more defending it, no more trying to explain it away.
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This president will be in power for only a short time, but excusing his misbehavior will forever tarnish your name.
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Sergeant Dean Carriger said the bell excusing students at Union Middle School had just rung when the shooting took place.
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"Nobody is excusing Russia's meddling in our elections," said Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who objected to the request.
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He pointed fingers elsewhere, excusing his own erotic exploits by insinuating that his Oval Office forebears were no less randy.
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The White House had provided a note excusing him from talking about much of anything, which he repeatedly read aloud.
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The very mention of a "FISA warrant" would allow Mr. Sessions to avoid the substance by excusing himself from commenting.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociology professor, writes about how that contributes to people excusing violence against black women and girls.
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Internally, the guys may conclude "women can't cut it here," excusing themselves rather than making an effort to change their behavior.
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Over the past several years, there has been a concerted effort to move from that accountability to a culture of excusing.
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The courtroom became so heated that the judge was heard to ask "Any other catfights?" before excusing the jury to deliberate.
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Without excusing the trolls, I can at least be charitable to those upset at the critical reaction and say I understand.
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He appreciated it all, though he toyed with his self-consciousness by sweetly excusing himself for jabbering away with personal reflections.
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The former costars embraced, and Clooney, excusing himself to the audience for his "horrible" French, asked Dujardin to translate for him.
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They fell over each other to give Tambor's behavior every excuse in the book, while simultaneously claiming they weren't excusing it.
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Let me be clear: I am not condoning or excusing incels by calling them a product of a deeply flawed culture.
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Platforms also use TOS rules as a way to absolve themselves of responsibility, excusing them from having hosted particularly terrible stuff.
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It's so funny because it's sort of like ... Well, let's just not excuse that, let's not be ... I'm not excusing it.
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But that can't account for the entire decline, and it doesn't come close to excusing humans' roles in causing outright extinctions.
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If we elect him, there will be no excusing our actions to future generations, no pleading ignorance in the face of threat.
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In each show, the abused woman gets a whole song excusing her lover's violence while justifying her decision to stay with him.
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Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News, leads a news organization that has been accused of promoting inaccurate stories and excusing unethical behavior.
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The comparison also has the effect of excusing those Americans — like certain presidential candidates in the 2016 race — who wield prejudices strategically.
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Trump's supporters began excusing the president's failure to deliver by suggesting Bevin was the worst candidate since the invention of voting booths.
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It was either apt or ironic, then, that she spent much of her life deferring to and excusing the man she married.
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Glen is fine with excusing those rumors until Leslie's gaze is turned toward his 17-year-old daughter China (Chloë Grace Moretz).
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But perhaps you need some places to start: You've been excusing Uncle Jim's racist jokes because he's old and from another era.
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Corn (Keith Randolph Smith) is the conciliator, excusing Blue's difficult personality as the price a black artist pays in a racist society.
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But that is largely because many Republicans are now reduced to excusing conduct that before 2016 they would probably have deemed unacceptable.
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This is still a major setback for a political reporter; they are not excusing his behavior or letting him off the hook.
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Some economists therefore expect attempts to mitigate the negative impact of rate cuts by excusing banks from negative rates on some excess reserves.
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I see the same happening here — society excusing Trump's immorality because some believe he would be good for their own agendas and purposes.
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To be clear, I'm not excusing or justifying his behavior — and certainly there is no justification for the latest incidents of attempted violence.
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Some of your co-workers, who may have been excusing their pilferage to themselves, will be encouraged to straighten out and fly right.
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It also has the added side benefit of excusing senators from the noisy, day-to-day chaos of the president's investigation by Congress.
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But by excusing myself from the situation, I can go to the bathroom or to a quiet space and try to calm down.
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There is no excusing what happened at Middlebury, and those who prevented Charles Murray from speaking must be punished for violating college rules.
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It is a world view grounded in some truth, but it has the effect of excusing all manner of behavior as simply routine.
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"How can we run against the corruption of Donald Trump if we're excusing corruption within our own party?" he asked, according to NJ.com.
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And when we abandon that civil ideal, we wind up excusing behavior that is actually inexcusable, in the name of protecting the First Amendment.
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The Cubs tweeted out an official letter excusing fans from work, school and any other responsibilities that may be disrupted by Game 7 festivities.
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Most important: What do you think was up with Will excusing himself from Christmas dinner to cough up Demogorgon larva and flash between dimensions?
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But why do lawmakers seek to punish voters' understandable mistakes so severely, while excusing other mistakes and misconduct that undermine the right to vote?
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And claims of mainstream media bias—warranted or not—have led conservatives to dismiss legitimate stories while excusing outrageous behavior in their own ranks.
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Before excusing the jurors from his courtroom for the day, Ellis offered members of the public one solace if they are selected: free lunch.
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We are a mature democracy -- it is well past time that we stop excusing or ignoring -- or worse, endorsing -- these attacks on the truth.
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We are a mature democracy – it is well past time that we stop excusing or ignoring – or worse, endorsing — these attacks on the truth.
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We are a mature democracy – it is well past time that we stop excusing or ignoring – or worse, endorsing -- these attacks on the truth.
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But pardoning or excusing American war criminals will impact that trust and have long-lasting consequences on the battlefield, writes retired US Army Col.
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I typically try to avoid alcohol during the week, but I haven't gotten laid in a few weeks and I'm excusing this as ~self-care~.
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There is no excusing it — not based on the taste-skewing mores of talk radio or the then-blogosphere, and not based on my intentions.
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" Excusing the abuse of men in filmmaking means that those who work with them on film sets, especially women, are expected to develop "thick skin.
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"This president will be in power for only a short time, but excusing his misbehavior will forever tarnish your name," Amash tweeted before the vote.
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For the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off Donald Trump's comments -- excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show.
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Excusing or downplaying harassment by saying 'but he's a good guy' or 'but it didn't happen to me' is what has protected perpetrators for decades.
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For the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off Donald Trump's comments – excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show.
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They're throttling data — Zero rating is the controversial practice of excusing certain apps and services from data caps, which effectively makes everything else more expensive.
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For the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off Donald Trump's comments - excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show.
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For the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off Donald Trump's comments — excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show.
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And this magnificent portrayal of a childhood perpetually interrupted goes a long way toward excusing the complex, self-interested adult who springs from that past.
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We are a civilized society that cannot begin resorting to or excusing political violence, no matter the hues or views of the victims or attackers.
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But why did he approach the subject in such a trembling and self-deprecating way, excusing himself, at the outset, for its "strangeness" and "foolishness"?
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And his supporters could be remarkably creative or brazen (when they weren't simply mute) in excusing behavior they would never have tolerated from a Republican.
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"The stamina that they have—even bending my neck like that I'd get whiplash!" she said, before excusing herself to finish Opening Ceremony's 2017 budgets.
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The last thing she remembers, she later told the police, was feeling dizzy and excusing herself to go to the restroom, where she passed out.
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I, Tonya is harder on its main character, and better to her because of it, never reducing her to influences and circumstance or excusing her flaws.
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"They then started making jokes about the situation asking, 'What perfume are you wearing?' and excusing him, saying, 'He's had a bit of wine,'" Pascolla wrote.
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A key factor But many of these commentators are overlooking a key factor that explains, without excusing, the gut-wrenching racist spectacle of the Qiaobi commercial.
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I learned the key is not, as I'd thought, to always be perfect; in fact, nothing attracts people like someone owning their imperfections without excusing them.
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It's a pretty awkward interaction -- they grill him with fairly reasonable questions ... and the dude just folds, even excusing himself from the table (and the interview).
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But other participants dismissed the allegations against Moore and excusing others by reasoning that behavior now seen as unacceptable wasn't a problem in Alabama decades ago.
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Let's stop excusing white voters who aren't outraged by domestic terrorism or the water crisis in rural black communities like Flint, Michigan, and Denmark, South Carolina.
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In defending the Club for Growth's endorsement of Trump, McIntosh cited the President's tax and deregulatory policies, while excusing his growth stunting, nakedly protectionist trade policies.
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Excusing himself, he swiveled around in his chair, head bent over a guitar, trying wrangle a better sound out of the Fender draped across his lap.
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For Americans, the myth that the occupation is unsustainable is a crucial element in maintaining and excusing the United States' financial and diplomatic abetting of it.
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But the strength of the control board idea is the ability to act swiftly and decisively for reform and to do so without excusing any debt.
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"Office Phone Call" revolved around Mr. Hart, who, instead of just excusing himself and going to the restroom during meetings, concocts elaborate phone calls to leave.
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Make no mistake, I'm not excusing Electronic Art's clear and present money grab with Battlefront II, especially how they allowed it to undercut its design principles.
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And excusing Yakuza 6's minigames (more on those later), the series' familiar combination of exploration and combat carries you from one plot beat to the next.
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But assuming Wade stays put, which we might as well assume, how does Miami handle this situation without either patronizing him or excusing themselves from championship contention?
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You know, for the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off Donald Trump's comments, excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show.
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Yet if it may be possible to take a tolerant view of how this started, there is no excusing the mess Mrs Clinton has made of it.
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Otherwise, Europe might be willing to write off "significant nonperformance" by Iran as a response to U.S. pressure, thus excusing a significant expansion of Iran's nuclear program.
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Duriqi cites himself as an example: He says he was brainwashed and underwent an extremist phase in which he called for imposing Shariah law and excusing violence.
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They are still clearly baffled and appalled that Orlando was involved with her, and the film is sympathetic to their anguish and confusion without excusing their hostility.
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Excusing men of color, Muslims, immigrants or men living in non-Western societies for bad behavior toward women is an expression of the bigotry of low expectations.
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The Choice Act would exempt some financial institutions from capital and liquidity requirements, essentially excusing them from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act if they hold enough cash.
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INTERIOR SUED OVER BIRD KILLING POLICY: A coalition of conservation groups is taking the Interior Department to court over its policy excusing "incidental" killings of certain birds.
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Meanwhile, Officer Rueca with the San Francisco Police Department said there are no laws on the books excusing drivers of semiautonomous or driver-assisted vehicles from bad behavior.
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There's a longstanding practice in the Parliament of excusing inappropriate comments or behavior as the result of "cultural differences" in a body that represents 215 countries, Ponte said.
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Without excusing that behavior in the slightest, maybe it's worth exploring if our genes and immune system can help explain some of the worst impulses of humanity, too.
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The way Lara Jean seems to shrug off the racism in "Sixteen Candles" is not a form of excusing it; it's a way of walking forward from it.
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After excusing the jury, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan asked Guzman directly whether he understood it was his decision, not that of his lawyers, to testify or not.
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"That doesn't mean they are excusing his behavior on immigration or excused his moral behavior, but they are open to hearing his message on the economy," she added.
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But some experts suggest that hard-liners may come to embrace hostilities with the U.S. as a means of stimulating the economy, or at least excusing its weakness.
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On Tuesday, a top Chinese diplomat said an APEC summit's failure to agree on a communique resulted from certain countries "excusing" protectionism, a veiled criticism of Washington's tariffs.
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Unfortunately, the intense speed of technological progress has gotten the tech giants into this mess, and its sluggishness is now preventing them from excusing their way out of it.
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So she wasn't on that ride with us, and so I'm not excusing my behavior, but I'm telling you that there was some anticipation of having to confront her.
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Orientalism has a way of normalizing cultural variations and of excusing any abuses: Scheherazade, the harem and belly dancing exempted some Westerners from considering the plight of Muslim women.
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Today, he made a show of allegiance to the President over the American people by declaring 'no collusion' and excusing the President on the basis of his emotional state.
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Meanwhile, many media figures seem determined to hold Donald Trump to a much lower standard; sidelining his own, better documented controversies, and excusing his total ignorance of substantive policy.
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Our perception of the French as bad soldiers is a textbook case of selectively reading history—ignoring French victories while excusing similarly embarrassing losses by the British and Americans.
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"I'm now looking forward to spending time with my family," he added before excusing himself from the news conference to catch a plane back to Monaco, where he resides.
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"To be honest with you — I don't want to sound like I'm pandering or excusing terrorism — but both the FARC and the AUC, they were model inmates," he said.
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Brafman, his other lawyer, put his hand on Shkreli's back as Matsumoto left the bench briefly to talk to the jurors in private after excusing them from their service.
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Critics accused Mr. Bateman of excusing Mr. Tambor's verbal harassment at the expense of Ms. Walter, during an era in which male toxicity in Hollywood is facing a reckoning.
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Some people are excusing this betrayal because Gomez has a concert in Arizona tonight, but if she were a real friend, why wouldn't she plan her year around Taylor's party?
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While he does not advocate excusing Khmer Rouge crimes, he hopes to show that the regime's former soldiers are human beings, many of whom acted out of fear or ignorance.
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This may mean excusing yourself from an unproductive conversation, saying no to someone who asks to borrow something, or declining an invitation to an event you don't want to attend.
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After more than a year of silence—of a wiped social media presence and forcefully excusing herself from all of our narratives—she tried to outshine a massive astronomical event.
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Denied sufficient oxygen at birth, Shonzi is developmentally delayed; he's also a bully who's not above using his mental status to guilt those around him into excusing his offensive behavior.
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"They then started making jokes about the situation asking, 'What perfume are you wearing?' and excusing him, saying, 'He's had a bit of wine,'" Pascolla wrote in the Instagram post.
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"This is a human-nature game," Kerr said, excusing a sluggish first 214 211/212 quarters as a letdown following recent big wins over the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs.
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Skyler Fox, 16, was battling a headache throughout his round at the U.S. Open sectional at Woodmont Country Club on Monday, and paid dearly for excusing himself to use the restroom.
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"Today, he made a show of allegiance to the President over the American people by declaring 'no collusion' and excusing the President on the basis of his emotional state," he added.
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"The fact that the case was presented to you had a lot to do with this case settling," U.S. District Judge Denise Casper told jurors before excusing them on Thursday morning.
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In 2010, Harvey Weinstein invited actor Dominique Huett to his Beverly Hills hotel room to discuss her career, and after excusing himself to use the bathroom, Weinstein returned wearing just a bathrobe.
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We can stop excusing a kind of manhood that belittles women, bringing us down to the level of objects — objects that can be treated with not only scorn, but with actual violence.
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Egypt's Coptic Church won't meet Pence Egypt's Coptic Church on Saturday issued a statement "excusing" itself from receiving Pence during his upcoming visit, state-run Al-Ahram reported, citing a church statement.
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With a longstanding reputation for ignoring and excusing bad behavior, there will be a lot of pressure on the company to make bold moves if Holder finds the allegations to be truthful.
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And a little Oscar radiology reveals that eight of the nine movies (minus "Parasite") are about white people — and, excusing "Little Women," and Scarlett Johansson in "Marriage Story" notwithstanding, about white men.
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That will only happen when conservatives, liberals, and others are willing to confront toxic rhetoric in their own ranks instead of "calling out" bad behavior among opponents while excusing it among friends.
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Voters of color won't make the mistake 58% of white voters made in November 2016, excusing open bigotry and racism in hopes that other things might be good for the bottom line.
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In a sweet tweet, Ventimiglia, 39, shared a picture of himself holding a notebook with a handwritten note for fans, excusing them from work or school on Wednesday because of what's to come.
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In the first year of her children's lives, the princess, 37, has been less visible, and even an occasionally absent public figure, excusing herself from several expected appearances to tend to her kids.
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However, I don't feel comfortable excusing him from his child-support responsibilities so that he can spend his pension money on drugs — especially when he declines to avail himself of substance-abuse treatment.
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Some Democrats have called on Barr to resign, accusing him of protecting Trump by effectively clearing the president of criminal obstruction of justice and excusing actions viewed by them as evidence of misconduct.
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But by excusing Mr. Bush's errors, Republicans radically expanded the trust deficit, creating a yawning gap between the party's base and its elites, one that has persisted, and grown, in the years since.
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Trump also has called out Beijing for undermining U.S. and U.N. sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and missile programs, while temporarily excusing the violations in the context of the broader agenda.
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Ferak appeared to be echoing the "baby steps" theory of social progress, often put forth by Saudi leaders as a way of excusing rights abuses or the rhetorical excesses of government-backed clerics.
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The left sees a hostile journalist trying to gin up sympathy and dollars via his Patreon account, and warns that he's trying to trick the public into excusing his anti-left propaganda work.
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But this Court can understand his actions, without excusing them, as symptomatic of transient immaturity, and not consider them to be predictive of who he might be in the future with time and medication.
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While it's possible that Blunt and Krasinski will show up for one of the many star-studded after parties, there's a chance that these two are excusing themselves from the narrative completely this year.
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One Texas school superintendent, for example, threatened suspension for any student who dared to "disrupt" school with any protests or demonstrations, regardless of whether they had a note from a parent excusing their absence.
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Starbucks Corp that said a rule under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act excusing employers from paying workers for time spent on brief tasks while off the clock did not exist under state law.
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But because our centrist elites are actually center-left there is a constant, involuntary tug toward emphasizing what's wrong on the right-wing side of the spectrum and excusing what's wrong on the other.
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And rather than hearing a fierce and immediate condemnation from the White House, we instead witnessed a flailing president offering moral equivalencies between the two sides, condoning the neo-nazis, and effectively excusing hate.
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TV networks this morning hosted several Republican leaders defending their health care bill and excusing the Congressional Budget Office's report, which estimated 24 million more people would be uninsured by 2026 under the GOP plan.
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"I really do commend you for doing the right and sensible thing," U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman told lawyers for both sides during a brief hearing Friday, before excusing the 12 jurors hearing the case.
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A top Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday that the failure of APEC officials to agree on a communique from the summit was a result of certain countries "excusing" protectionism, a veiled criticism of Washington's tariffs.
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Ms. Steinberg cited ideas such as excusing all defendants from having to appear for every court hearing, allocating more judges and court staff to the Bronx and creating flexible appearance times, including in the evening.
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Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon was a "full, free, and absolute pardon…for all offenses," excusing Nixon for any misdeeds he undertook while occupying the presidency, and thereby preempting any possible indictments for Watergate.
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The biggest problem for me, as a reporter covering not just Donald Trump but Trumpism, has been how to explain the racial and cultural anxieties many Trump supporters feel without either excusing or dismissing them.
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This season's arc does feel more layered, including flashbacks that offer further insights, perhaps, into how Joe became the way he is -- not to the point of excusing it, but better understanding what shaped him.
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However, the Barack Obama appointee said completely excusing McGahn from testifying would give Trump or any president monarch-like powers that the framers of the Constitution deliberately sought to disperse in the system they devised.
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Appeals court grants venezuela's bid to void $1.6 billion judgment that had been won by exxonmobil APPEALS COURT SAYS LOWER COURT JUDGE ERRED IN EXCUSING EXXONMOBIL FROM COMPLYING WITH PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS TO ENFORCE THE JUDGMENT
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Delhi Crime blatantly feigns ignorance about this lapse: In the show, this man is shown to have reported the assault two days after the gang rape, effectively excusing the Delhi Police from the burden of inaction.
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So I've come up with a workaround of sorts, one that has less to do with excusing the wrong that someone has done to you or alleviating the negative impact of the experience on your life.
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A major Asia-Pacific summit's failure to agree on a communique resulted from certain countries "excusing" protectionism, a top Chinese diplomat said, in a veiled criticism of Washington that further sours the tone of China-U.
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Finally, on January 25th Nick Lindahl, an Australian player, pleaded guilty to losing a match intentionally and informing bettors of his plans in advance, reportedly excusing his conduct with a dismissive "that's what tennis players do".
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T.I. straight-up says you wouldn't let a crackhead use being on crack as an excuse for a robbery ... so there's no excusing Roseanne for firing off a racist tweet just because she was on Ambien.
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It's why white liberal pundits keep passionately telling us that we will be responsible for white America's decision to either continue embracing or excusing Trump's bigotry, unwittingly putting him on a glide path for re-election.
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We swallow our pain and keep our own behavior exemplary while excusing the bad behavior of others, knowing, from examples like Professor Hill's, what could happen if we speak up, and what we stand to lose.
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Experts agreed that it would be difficult to shut schools without other severe restrictions on city life, including strong encouragement or even a requirement to keep children at home, rather than simply excusing them from school.
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When we talk about responsibility and rehabilitation, how do we balance these two senses of responsibility without either "excusing" away the behavior of the abuser or failing to sufficiently weigh the vast nature of collective guilt?
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Because the free and open internet was in danger of becoming tightly controlled by giant telecom corporations that were already doing things like blocking apps and services from phones and excusing their own services from data caps.
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Trump's comments seemingly excusing Russia's invasion of Crimea throw into question his commitment to a system that has built a relatively peaceful and prosperous post-war order, said Farkas, now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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Excusing the current president from the "burdens of ordinary citizenship" would likely grind the Russia investigation to a halt, denying the American people answers about the president's potential complicity in Russian cyberattacks on the American democratic process.
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For all of their touting of gender equality, brands like Volvo or Nature's Bounty granola would evidently rather not parse the many allegations of underage sex predation against a Senate candidate or Hannity's complicity in excusing them.
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He failed that test on Saturday with a weak statement about "many sides," and, after condemning the white supremacists on Monday, failed again on Tuesday with a bizarre press conference that saw him excusing the fringe right.
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And while Uber may very well allow people to turn their blue Prius into a modern yellow cab, it does so while excusing itself from assuming the lion's share of the responsibilities traditionally associated with car services.
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JD Scholten, who announced earlier this month that he will once again try to unseat King by running against him in 2020, said the Iowa Republican is pushing a "selfish agenda," and accused him of excusing violence.
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Donald Trump Jr. wasn't freelancing when he came in swinging during his appearance last week on "The View," accusing Joy Behar of wearing blackface and Whoopi Goldberg of excusing Roman Polanski's alleged sexual assault of a minor.
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Maybe the millions of people who illegally download movies and TV shows are thinking only of the top-billed stars, excusing their actions with the notion that one viewing will not do much harm to a superstar.
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Highlighting the pervasiveness of China's infiltration into U.S. institutions, Pompeo related that the U.S. stock exchanges give preferential treatment to Chinese firms by excusing them from the reporting and accountability requirements that all U.S. entities must meet.
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So this reads like Stone and Caputo are trying to piggyback on Trumpworld's larger effort to spin the Russia probe as an FBI/"deep state" setup, in hopes of excusing a meeting that looks very bad for them.
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Saulnier is not excusing Amber's worst self — though it's definitely buried — but he does seem interested in the fact that so much of what she believes, or of what anybody believes in this film, is driven by circumstance.
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As she slowly figured out how to type, she would send photos in place of text messages to more quickly let me know what she was up to, and I could respond without excusing myself from social settings.
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"What started as something that was like, 'oh, all the cool kids are doing it,' now [made you] a bit of a social pariah if you were excusing yourself from conversation to go have a cigarette," he says.
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There's no one in Silicon Valley, no one in the Bay Area who has historically been more in — excusing the pun here — more in bed with tech than Gavin, but even he now is beginning to distance himself.
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And I'd felt a bit uneasy in the stomach region before we'd left, but brushed it off—mainly because a month into seeing someone, I didn't want to jinx things by excusing myself for a lengthy bathroom break.
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A mischievous conservative troll could condemn the trespassing and the threats of violence while excusing the rest as an occupation of public space (like a public college campus) to protest mandatory minimum sentences (something liberals typically, and rightly, oppose).
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It's not excusing Isis' vandalism to point out that what they destroyed was less than a century old; or that the weird, cartoonish recreation in London, in its attempt to realistically copy a simulacrum, was doomed from the start.
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You know when new parents go out for the first time and politely keep excusing themselves to call the babysitter 24,659,742 times to see if their baby is lost without them or like still blinking at a normal rate?
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And UNRWA, whose materials tout "Palestine" as if it were already a state even while also excusing Palestinians from any real obligations in peacemaking, has joined in inciting millions to dream of overrunning Israel with a mass Palestinian influx.
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If the sentence "Quite frankly, I think he will be cream crackered and want a good night's kip"—this was a private secretary, excusing Prince Harry from a night out—isn't reading pleasure, then I don't know what is.
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Michael Freilich, a Jewish member of the Belgian federal Parliament for the conservative and separatist New Flemish Alliance party, said that universities should be on the forefront of fighting such symbols of bigotry in society, rather than excusing them.
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The failure of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at the weekend to agree on a communique was down to certain countries "excusing" protectionism and trying to force their views on others, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The failure of the countries attending a major Asia-Pacific summit to agree on a communique resulted from certain countries "excusing" protectionism, a top Chinese diplomat said, in a veiled criticism of Washington that further sours China-U.
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But the right decided to embrace it, and has clutched it all the more tightly in response to concerns from political and cultural rivals and allies alike while excusing it as how "forgotten Americans talk" or what "real Americans" really think.
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Sears wrote a doctor's note excusing a 2-year-old boy from having to receive any of his childhood vaccinations without first obtaining any medical information about the child, the board said in a court filing reported by the Times.
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And while you may be thinking that Donald Trump upends this theory, in fact, our arbiters of right-wing morality (such as it is) are constantly excusing his louche behavior and trying to make him into a figure of rectitude.
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Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.
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Imagining the police hearing Smollett's story that he was attacked by men wearing MAGA hats in Chicago, Chappelle flashed that side-eye before imitating an officer excusing himself and saying to a colleague: "Find out where Kanye West was last night."
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It then goes on to make a series of egregious factual, analytic, and moral errors, excusing Saudi Arabia's murder of a US resident in a way that gives a green light to dictators around the world to kill their own citizens.
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The incident occurred the night after Green and Edmonson ran into each other at another East Lansing bar, where Edmonson claimed that Green's entourage choked him and his girlfriend after Edmonson called Green out for bumping into him and not excusing himself.
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Without excusing any of this behavior, it is not hard to comprehend why men are vulnerable and why they would seek out what is probably the most potent form of comfort known to humans: intimacy, in whatever twisted form that might take.
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"For the decade I have been working to reform how the military prosecutes sexual assault cases, I have seen a systemic pattern of commanders excusing the behavior of favored subordinates, even overthrowing court martial convictions, and protecting them from appropriate punishment," California Rep.
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Once upon a time, excusing yourself to go to the mall to shop, only to sit in Brookstone massage chair and huff a maple scented Yankee Candle all while drinking your Christmas supremacist Frappuccino was the best American consumerism had to offer.
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For example, it has been argued that religious freedom requires employers to actively facilitate worship by such means as providing Muslims with the the ability to bathe their feet, or excusing Jewish workers from labor on holy days distinct from national holidays.
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But I sincerely believe taking some time to get to know them — paying attention to how they speak and act, not excusing away behaviors we think might be red flags because we want them to like us — can help mitigate all of this.
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One of our best-read stories today is by a novelist whose defense of fiction as a vehicle for empathy was met with outrage by those who understood her interest in writing about people different from herself to be excusing cultural appropriation.
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" James M. O'Toole, a history professor at Boston College, said of Bishop Daily by email that "without excusing anything that he did or did not do, it seems to me that at some level he simply did not know what to do.
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It's disingenuous for the team to say they "do not condone or excuse any form of domestic violence," because refusing to subject Brown to any sort of significant discipline is most certainly condoning and excusing his decisions to abuse his former wife.
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While there is ample discourse on the subject in philosophical circles, those of us in the arts tend to focus on the objects created by artists, often finding ourselves excusing or reveling in the egregious behavior of the artists themselves — male artists, generally speaking.
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Since Trump's election two weeks ago, "don't normalize this" has become a liberal mantra, a reminder to stay vigilant in the face of aberrant presidential behavior that Americans may feel tempted—or emotionally bludgeoned—into excusing as just the way the country works now.
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The process that led up to the court's decision demonstrates that, as these policies continue to face important legal challenges, the courts will not give Trump a free pass on them simply because he insists on excusing every action with the language of national security.
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In Rome on New Year's Eve of 2016, Mr. Broeksmit shared the files with a reporter for the Financial Times, periodically excusing himself to snort 80-milligram hits of OxyContin, and the journalist later connected him with someone willing to pay for the documents.
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The fear of worse damage to national fortunes appears to have tempered the escalation of tensions with the U.S. — though some experts suggest that hard-liners may come to embrace the conflict as a means of stimulating the economy, or at least excusing its weakness.
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They wring their hands and warn that America is setting the stage for a violent backlash by the Palestinians, which is actually pre-emptively excusing the Palestinian propensity to turn to terrorist violence and bloodshed as the preferred tactic for trying to coerce Israel.
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" BuzzFeed's Jon Passantino appeared to agree, tweeting Friday evening, "This is ultimately Tucker/Patel excusing away Trump's actions, fiercely advocating that he should not face any consequence for his actions and giving nervous Republicans cover: It's just Trump being Trump and that's what the voters wanted.
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This is forcing them into uncomfortable positions — Speaker of the House Paul Ryan found himself excusing the president as "new to this" as a way of saying he hadn't knowingly screwed up, which is just not something you want to say about your commander-in-chief.
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Excusing the typo in my tweet above (sorry Gosha, I'd drank too much lucozade), it seems to show a similarity between the design on the left and the design on the right (made by me, using the font Art Dystopia from popular art student website Dafont.com).
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Zhang Huan, who had also created a number of body-numbing, masochistic pieces, such as "13 Square Meters" (21) (not included in the show), was able to wiggle out of incarceration by proving he was still an art student, barely excusing his behavior to the authorities.
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But the US president was busy stressing "zero collusion," going so far as to stop Putin from answering a question to say that Democrats invented the idea of Russian collusion as a way of excusing the fact that they lost the presidential election, citing his own Electoral College statistics.
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GIVE, THEN TAKE I have a ritual that I do at the end of the rehearsal process, on the evening of our first preview, which is essentially handing the play over to the actors and excusing myself from the process, and really allowing it to grow with them.
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The good news is, despite an onslaught of politicians who have a vested interest in excusing and fostering bias based on racial fears, Pew Research finds that the majority of Americans believe the country needs to continue to take measures to give equal rights to blacks and everyone.
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After two false starts, on Saturday and Monday, a President who believes he is never wrong threw aside the advice he had been given and, in a combative appearance before reporters, blamed almost everyone involved, excusing hate groups and those in his base who are partial to them.
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There can be no tolerating it, no accepting it, no excusing it, and no ignoring it ... America is prepared to stand with you in pursuit of shared interests and common security ... But the nations of the Middle East cannot wait for American power to crush this enemy for them.
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And we have narrowed down the concept of racism to an almost ludicrous extent, in effect often excusing real racism — such as that espoused by people like King — and its impact on nonwhite Americans because it is not literally wearing a hood or setting a cross alight on a lawn.
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If you're stressed, you're far more likely to turn to food for comfort and would be better off excusing yourself for a few moments to get some space and reground yourself, especially this year when post-election sentiments are running high and family squabbles are more likely to become heated.
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It usually takes a village, real, virtual or proverbial, to make an Islamist terrorist — one composed of hate-spewing imams, TV programs saturated with anti-Semitic and anti-Western conspiracy theories, neighborhood vigilantes enforcing fundamentalist religious strictures, and political leaders excusing, reflecting or disseminating many of the same beliefs and attitudes.
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The Tale resonates with other #MeToo testimonials in so many ways — in the abuse of power it depicts, in the way it shows how other women can be complicit in enabling or excusing abuse, and in its exploration of why someone might not speak up for years, or decades, about a past assault.
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""Once we open the door to excusing or justifying the intentional taking of life as 'necessary,'" he writes, "we introduce the real possibility that the lives of some persons (very possibly the weakest and most vulnerable among us) may be deemed less 'valuable,' and receive less protection from the law, than others.
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"Because there are few, if any, well-formulated justifications for categorically excusing current and former senior-level presidential aides from responding to compelled congressional process, it would be difficult to do so consistent with existing case law, traditional norms of practice under our constitutional system of government, and common sense," she added.
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In the decades after the Civil War, as part of the myth of the Lost Cause that glorified the Confederacy and emphasized states' rights rather than slavery as the cause of the war, many white southerners chose to portray Forrest as a military hero, thus excusing or ignoring Forrest's buying and selling of human beings.
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This "excusing" mentality can, too often, be found in our friends, family, or other people who are known for their integrity, as they try to rationalize the type of behavior Weinstein is accused of -- even as they, and other women they respect, are its victims in myriad ways throughout the workplace and the larger culture.
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"I don't envy the position they are in, but for them to try to go through the torturous exercise of excusing the reason to accept Trump money, but at the same time suggesting they are going to continue to make their races localized, that requires logical leaps I am not capable of," she said.
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Algorithms given jurisdiction over public services like healthcare frequently exacerbate inequalities, excusing the ancient practice of shifting blame the most vulnerable populations for their circumstances in order to redistribute the best services to the least in need; models that try to predict where crime will occur can wind up making racist police practices even worse.
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Eventually, he took mercy on me, excusing himself not long after he polished off his crab gazpacho and Caesar salad, and leaving me to focus completely on Mr. Cobb's conversation, except for a brief and unwitting interruption from a pair of fellow Times journalists passing on the sidewalk on their way to the bureau.
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When I encounter women who participate in a stratum of the girl experience that I think is below all of us — blithely excusing fuck-man behavior, but sparring with women in ways that are subtle and noxious — I will drop in my own judgments, as if I've never loved a dummy or vied for social position.
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The bill, which was introduced by 13 Republicans and advanced to the full House Education Committee on Monday, would require that lessons touching on the topic of sexual orientation or gender identity first be approved by parents, who would then have the option of sending a note to the principal excusing their children from class. Rep.
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How can we run against the corruption of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE if we're excusing corruption within our own party?
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Patagonia's support of the youth-driven strike follows New York City mayor and presidential candidate Bill de BlasioBill de BlasioDNC raises qualifying thresholds for fifth presidential debate Biden extends lead over Warren, Sanders The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Trump defends call as Ukraine controversy deepens MORE excusing the city's 1.1 million students from class Friday, allowing them to attend the strike without penalty.
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The Republican National Committee's top strategist on Wednesday accused the media of excusing controversial comments by liberals while fixating on Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's every utterance.
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" While noting she wasn't "excusing her behavior," Theron said of Kelly, "The great thing about when you take on a job as an actor is that the only way to kind of do this job in any capacity whatsoever is you have to be able to remove yourself, your own personal feelings from a lot of that stuff and come at it from an empathetic place.
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Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, business leaders such as Stephen Schwarzman and Carl Icahn, and a raft of White House advisers, including the bulk of the National Security Council, cannot fail to see the chaos, the incompetence, and the potential illegality in their midst, and yet they go on supporting, excusing, and deflecting attention from the President's behavior in order to protect their own ambitions and fortunes.
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Not only did they find Netflix crime dramas show CJPs who are people of color most often committing acts of wrongdoing (which Color of Change defines as anything from lying and bribery to acts of racism and killing), but they also found that, as a whole, CJP characters are often used as "validators of bad behavior," excusing or even endorsing those illegal practices as "acceptable, justifiable and necessary—even heroic," per the study.
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By excusing President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's bad behavior, he has made it clear his only priorities are that Trump put conservatives on the Supreme Court and sign tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the rich and corporations.
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Friends will often, with good reason, question how much I actually want to be celibate, and how much I've decided to parlay an assemblage of fears (fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of simply not being very good at sex and not knowing how to cope with that) into an easily-adoptable role to play down the pub, perfect for excusing the fact that my efforts to integrate back into the romantic and sexual community are pretty much non-existent.
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As a result, Republicans have maneuvered themselves into positions that few could have imagined two years ago: impeding a serious investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, defending or downplaying Trump language that inflames racial tensions, excusing his efforts to demand personal loyalty from top law enforcement officials, and now openly attacking federal law enforcement agencies through the Nunes memo alleging senior officials systematically abused the process for obtaining surveillance on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
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Rep. Justin AmashJustin AmashTrump allies assail impeachment on process while House Democrats promise open hearings soon Hoyer: We are going to move as fast 'as the facts and truth dictate' on open hearings Conway spars with Wallace on whether White House will cooperate with impeachment inquiry after formal vote MORE (I-Mich.) lashed out at Republicans for "excusing" what he called President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden allies see boost in Tuesday's election results Sanders vows to end Trump's policies as he unveils immigration proposal Republicans warn election results are 'wake-up call' for Trump MORE's "misbehavior" shortly before voting in favor of the House impeachment resolution.
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