Do you make excuses for the other person's bad behavior?
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Don't make excuses for not spending time with your kids.
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More than once I would make excuses for his strange behavior.
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If they haven't done their work, don't make excuses for them.
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You can't just make excuses for bad behavior or inconsiderate behavior.
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And it leads good people to make excuses for the inexcusable.
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Mentally strong people don't hide their mistakes or make excuses for them.
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Instead they continue to downplay comments and make excuses for their peers.
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Survivors deny or minimize the perpetrators' behavior or make excuses for them.
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" On the other hand, Mr. McLaughlin said: "We shouldn't make excuses for him.
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Lots of chief executives try to make excuses for crises by blaming their staffers.
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And we still make excuses for men if we think their art justifies it.
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We constantly make excuses for insensitive behavior because it's coming from someone we love.
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They were here to wrestle with that guilt, not to make excuses for it.
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There's no excuse for anyone to minimize domestic abuse and make excuses for an abuser.
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First, don't apologize or make excuses for voting against Trump on such an important issue.
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"I could make excuses for myself but there&aposs no room for that," Leanne wrote.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," he said.
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But don't make excuses for people who behave like this, as difficult as it may seem.
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Leading a double life comes naturally to Geminis, who constantly make excuses for their bad behavior.
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Dean and Ramona will not make excuses for each other's faults, nor try to change them.
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Any attempt to make excuses for women that would never fly for men undermines that goal.
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We see it in the way that you attack Antifa but make excuses for white supremacists.
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In fact, she thinks it's bogus when people make excuses for putting their nutrition on the backburner.
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Pressure to make excuses for Trump is now a daily burden on nearly every Republican in Congress.
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That, of course, does not mean we should ever make excuses for extremist rhetoric of hate speech.
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We always make excuses for the rock stars, though; that somehow, it's more tragic, a greater loss.
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Virginia Coach Tony Bennett took care last year not to make excuses for his team's historic defeat.
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Expect the Weinstein defenders to call his opponents bad people and to make excuses for his behavior.
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They don't make excuses for their characters, including Ahmed, and they refuse to give up on anyone.
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She held herself accountable and didn't make excuses for her decisions, and I can only respect that.
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I will die black, and I'm not going to make excuses for anybody because they don't understand.
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Honey Boy doesn't make excuses for James; it's not an apology for a man who caused harm.
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I will die black, and I'm not going to make excuses for anybody because they don't understand.
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Be careful not to make excuses for bad behavior, but do enjoy the sexy, passionate energy that's flowing!
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They need to look good, but I won't make excuses for a cute pair that gives me blisters.
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We often view their experience as unrealistic and make excuses for why we can't do what they've done.
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We're past the point where we need to make excuses for vegan food (in metropolitan cities, at least).
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The key difference is that men make the excuses for themselves and women make excuses for everyone but themselves.
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I am not trying to make excuses for her, I simply ask everyone to reconsider how they view her.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi wrote in a statement.
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The brutality is awful enough -- it is made worse when so many people, so frequently, make excuses for it.
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"It suggests he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do and then make excuses for him," Mrs.
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Currently, congressional Republicans make excuses for refusing to put checks and balances on the excesses of Trump's executive branch.
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On the other, he wants to make excuses for why he hasn't been able to get it all done.
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Mr. Sharansky remains angry, but also seems to make excuses for the prime minister, a longtime friend and ally.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," said recently installed CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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Despite his missing hand, he says his family never allowed him to make excuses for why he couldn't do something.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi said in a blog post.
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Sometimes Campbell had to make excuses for McMillan's drunken behavior; one night, he drove him home in McMillan's own car.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi said in the blog post.
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"It suggests he will let Putin do whatever Putin wants to do and then make excuses for him," Hillary explained.
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"I won't make excuses for some of the stuff I disagree with," in regard to her entire record, said Goff.
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The spurious speeches about equal rights don't square when you make excuses for clients that make jokes about 'n******s.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi said in a statement to Bloomberg.
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And suddenly the question would become not whether he'll make excuses for his own defeat, but which excuse he'll settle on.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in the statement.
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The psychological phenomenon of such a relationship, where people idolize and make excuses for their captor, is known as Stockholm syndrome.
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The show's real indictment is of those who enable him and make excuses for him, including the government and the church.
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The Guggenheim continues to make excuses for not providing better benefit plans for the workers while they can clearly do it.
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They joke about and roll their eyes at him and make excuses for him, rather than speaking up or stepping in.
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Check out this video Twitter thread, in which John Lewis and others urge people not to make excuses for not voting.
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But Spicer is loyal to the end, and can't help but constantly make excuses for Trump's always ridiculous and often dangerous behavior.
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When you play a little bit of everything, you have to make excuses for playing a whole lot of any one thing.
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The players appeared to make excuses for a poor showing by complaining about a water-logged field the day before their match.
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Though we're all human and have our share of blunders, Geminis love to make excuses for their mistakes with some verbose story.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg.
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"I cannot stand here today and defend my brother or make excuses for him," Cruz said at a news conference in Washington.
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Meanwhile, "progressives" continue to ignore sex abuse victims who happen to be inconvenient for them and/or make excuses for their tormentors.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Mr. Khosrowshahi said in a company blog post.
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"The best piece of advice I can give in those situations is, do not make excuses for the red flags," she said.
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And the women and men who make excuses for Toback should really realize that's not really a great way to deal with it.
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"He thinks that it probably was Russia," but he also thinks the Democrats are using it to make excuses for why they lost.
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"I think you're trying to make excuses for how you feel right now and I think you're trying to hate me," she responds.
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"If we're saying we want to defeat Trump, we can't be like Trump and make excuses for not having learned lessons," Harris said.
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An Indianapolis Star report found that USA Gymnastics allegedly worked with Nassar to make excuses for his absence when he was under investigation.
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The tax cut vote is one of the biggest of these senators' careers, and they won't be able to make excuses for it.
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Roy doesn't make excuses for his father's choices, but he regrets that some of the same destructive patterns persist on his city's streets today.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement last month.
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It's also worth noting that Trump was hardly so quick to make excuses for Democrats accused of misconduct, like Al Franken and Bill Clinton.
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In May, the Indianapolis Star reported that USA Gymnastics allegedly worked with Nassar to make excuses for his absence when he was under investigation.
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Even as she makes a case for programs like Back on Track, Harris is careful never to make excuses for even low-level offenders.
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Greta's was very direct and visceral but normally you work with everything from indifference to somebody trying to make excuses for not liking something.
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It's easy to turn your head and make excuses for your child, but ignoring challenging behavior will make it hard to transition into adulthood.
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That's true, though American presidents don't normally try to find alibis and make excuses for such countries immediately after the commission of heinous acts.
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According to criminal psychology expert Shadd Maruna, studies indicate that the majority of criminals either make excuses for, or attempt to justify, their actions.
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But given the 'parade of oofs' this finale provided—including the troubling optics of Dany's big speech—it's hard to make excuses for the show.
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While he didn't make excuses for his kids, he also remained hopeful that one day they would be able to be a united family again.
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The fact that he harped on his own abusive past, broken home, and depression came across as an effort to make excuses for inexcusable behavior.
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According to psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Nicole Martinez, she's not much different than your friend who continues to make excuses for her shitty boyfriend.
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These were considered bold, even controversial, at the time, but no one pretended that Capote or Mailer were trying to make excuses for their subjects.
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For the 2020 edition, you didn't need to dig to find female talent, make excuses for substandard work or politely yawn through another worthy endeavor.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's new CEO, said in a statement to Bloomberg.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi, said in a blog post announcing the hack last month.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a post discussing the incident.
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"I do think there is a certain amount of sour grapes in this and people are trying to make excuses for Hillary Clinton's loss," Paul said.
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Sarah Smithers, Editorial Coordinator: The main issue I had with season 7 is that Game of Thrones is asking us to make excuses for weak writing.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in the statement after the breach was disclosed.
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As a trauma psychologist, I believe the movement is doing more than just saying we will no longer tolerate or make excuses for sexually aggressive behavior.
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Why would someone who believes that sexual relations should be limited to the context of traditional marriage make excuses for aggressive sexual advances against teenage girls?
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If they make excuses for why he can't come visit, the company might be doing something they want to keep quiet — reselling, or counterfeiting, or worse.
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Which feels more than a little like a cop-out; the problem isn't the victims, it's the harassers and the people who make excuses for them.
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But now, there's another method of contact available—Instagram DMs—entitled guys can make excuses for being rejected and demand a back-and-forth with uninterested women.
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The M5 is like a loud friend that you have to make excuses for — in some situations, you'll be better off bringing someone else to the party.
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"Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him," the editors wrote a year ago.
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So most humans, even those who know that meat-eating is bad, make excuses for their behavior rather than adhering to their beliefs and giving up meat.
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It's easy to turn your head and make excuses for your child, but ignoring challenging behavior will make it hard to transition into adulthood, one expert said.
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Federer, the third seed, insisted that his back was not an issue, although he is also not one to make excuses for rare losses and poor play.
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The mixed feelings came as the president congratulated Mr. Shelton but also used his story to tell black men not to make excuses for their personal failings.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi said in the Tuesday evening blog post on the 2016 data breach.
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They spend time sleeping with each other instead of picking up guests, which means they have to make excuses for poor profits at the end of the night.
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I asked her several times to have all three of us sit down and reevaluate our relationship, but she would always make excuses for it not to happen.
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Left-wing publications such as Glenn Greenwald's "The Intercept" have gone out of their way to make excuses for the regime and treat its critics as Washington stooges.
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At Uber, it seems, being a top performer meant that a colleague in human resources was more likely to make excuses for poor behavior than issue a reprimand.
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Libby: Stan trying to make excuses for how Martha could have just happened to fall in love with a KGB agent — maybe they just met somewhere, who knows!
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Old and exhausted, he begins to make excuses for what's brought him back to town after all these years before finally confessing that he's returned because he loves her.
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It's another example of a candidate who is moving beyond trying to win and pivoting to trying to make excuses for himself to lay the groundwork for his next act.
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Backlash was immediate and while his fans managed to make excuses for him, the YouTuber told his more than 57 million subscribers that he had no excuses for his language.
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"It's a sad day for the Security Council when members make excuses for other member states killing their own people," said Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. _____ 6.
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For Trump, accused by his critics of being a lackey for Putin, to make excuses for the regime in Moscow in the presence of that country's ruler was an astonishing lapse.
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But for reasons of political expedience, conservatives have been more likely to make excuses for their predators, and indeed have elevated one of the more prominent examples to the White House.
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He writes that growing up, his dad never treated him any differently from his siblings, and he never allowed any of them to make excuses for why they couldn't do something.
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"Watching Christie kiss the Donald's ring this weekend — and make excuses for the man Christie himself had said was unfit for the presidency — demonstrated how wrong we were," the editorial said.
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"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," current CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who replaced Kalanick as chief exec back in September, writes in the company's statement.
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If they loved their democracy as much as they said they did, they would stop looking to science to make excuses for their own failure to treat black Americans as equal citizens.
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I don't want to make excuses for the guy, but I think we all sort of assume that Bezos was kind of the least human in that he seemed somewhat infallible. Exactly.
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Prior to World War II, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan cheated on arms limitation treaties, assisted by "useful idiots" in Western democracies who helped to cover up or make excuses for Axis cheating.
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"The more that they tolerate and they make excuses for his behavior and his performance, the more they're enabling him, the more they're encouraging him to do these types of things," he said.
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Paul initially said he wasn't going to appeal the decision or make excuses for the loss -- but after thinking about it and rewatching the fight, he believes it's the right thing to do.
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Notably, even right-wing media outlets you might expect to make excuses for Roseanne decided to call her tweets "racist," a word news organizations often dance around because of how loaded it is.
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To make matters worse, just last week, the administration relaxed the requirements for states to get waivers from A.C.A. provisions, making it easier for states to make excuses for not covering their citizens.
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Seierstad delves deep into the killer's history, motivations, and ideology, but she doesn't ever seek to make excuses for Breivik or try to get you to see him as anything but a monster.
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Will we raise our collective voices against Mr. Trump's white racism and those who make excuses for it or submit and thereby self-destructively kill any chance of fully becoming our better selves?
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In this section, Dani has been slowly becoming aware that she's trying too hard to make excuses for Christian, who seems disconnected from her, forgetting her birthday and generally being inattentive to her emotional state.
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And these religious leaders had to make excuses for behavior they had derided from their own pulpit, but still, they came to the conclusion before the general election that Donald Trump would champion their views.
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Sanders's job is no doubt made harder by the fact that Washington insiders can be snobbish; more difficult is the fact that her boss continually acts in ways that require her to make excuses for him.
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Because I believe in the promise of what the company is building … I can't and won't make excuses for the privacy mistakes that Facebook has made (and that I have criticized) over the past ten years.
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" The basic upgrades, termed Norms and Standards, had themselves been a result of litigation by Equal Education and other activist groups, Mr. Linde said, adding: "We see constant attempts by government to make excuses for not delivering.
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"Shortly after a rally, Trump tweeted: "Under my administration, we will NEVER make excuses for America&aposs enemies – we will never hesitate in defending American lives – and we will never stop working to defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism!
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His hostility to "imperial powers" (most notably America and Israel) is so fierce that he is willing to make excuses for "anti-imperial powers" such as Russia and Syria, as well as terrorist organisations like Hezbollah and Hamas.
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Apologize. If it turns our your coworker doesn't like you because of something you did — perhaps you once stole credit for their work, or you've thrown them under the bus — don't get defensive and make excuses for your bad behavior.
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" Being a coward, in contrast, meant a lifetime of anticipating "the next occasion when you would have to make excuses for yourself, dither, cringe, reacquaint yourself with the taste of rubber boots and the state of your own fallen, abject character.
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As someone who's watched her in awe, suspense and pride, I find what's particularly awful is the way that pride — in her excellence, in her improbable historicism, in her grit — has compelled me to make excuses for her descents into viciousness.
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Stenson said he struggled with back problems over the last few holes and had to have treatment soon after the turn, but he did not make excuses for his silver medal performance that included an opening round of 66 followed by three 68s.
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Twenty years later these elisions and assumptions are especially glaring, as is her disinclination toward politics, but Babitz's work is first and foremost historical — that is to say, we need not make excuses for Babitz, but to fully condemn her would be anachronistic.
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American conservatives should demand that no Republican make excuses for Russian attacks against democracy and that all Republicans join Democrats in fully investigating how far a vast right-wing Russian conspiracy did or did not go in the Trump campaign in 2016.
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When coaches overlook or make excuses for violent behavior, it creates an environment where athletes know they can rebuild their careers after the dust of the allegations settles (see Jameis Winston, Aroldis Chapman, Joe Mixon, Steven Wright, Jeurys Familia, and even Roberto Osuna).
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Millions of survivors are watching coaches downplay abuse, make excuses for abusers, and spread misinformation, which conveys the message that domestic violence isn't a serious issue and that abusive men will still be supported by the very people tasked with issuing consequences for their behavior.
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For Roberta and her new accomplices, these bacchanals are a small utopia for the intoxications of female friendship — and a welcome reprieve from their everyday lives, where they shrink and waffle and make excuses for the people, mostly men, who neglect and displace them.
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Someone extremely charming must have turned up to make excuses for him because the man expected to throw the book at McGregor, Mike Mazzulli went on the MMA Hour to tell Ariel Helwani that McGregor's punishment was to be withdrawn from the UFC's December 30th card.
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Trump has used these words and more to praise, court, make excuses for and seek favor with a motley collection of foreign despots and dictators — in some cases calling them fascist is not too strong a word — whom no American president should ever flatter or praise.
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Previous presidents may have made realpolitik accommodations with unsavory regimes, but we've never seen anything like Trump's obvious preference for brutal despots over democratic allies, his willingness to make excuses for whatever people like Vladimir Putin or Mohammed bin Salman do, up to and including murder.
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But Trump spent a good deal of time acting as a Putin spokesperson in the American press: The eagerness to make excuses for Putin's conduct seemed linked, rhetorically, to a somewhat half-baked notion that under Trump the United States and Russia would enjoy warmer relations.
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But white Americans often recoil at the use of the R-word and make excuses for vile rhetoric and actions, as the Republican Party did for several years when it came to Iowa Congressman Steve King and his white supremacist leanings before he finally went too far last week.
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Yet, some people choose to take a "seeing is believing" approach to rape and rape culture, and assume because they don't know anyone who has been sexually assaulted (to their knowledge) and don't believe that anyone they know would make excuses for sexual assault, that rape culture doesn't actually exist.
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"I can tell you his focus was on the fact that innocent victims were hurt by terrible regime that was attempted to be covered up by Russia or, you know, make excuses for [Syrian President Bashar] Assad by Russia, and he said he wasn't going put up with it," Haley continued.
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Sound off in the Facebook comments as you will about whatever flop Olivia or Rasheeda single you favor, or make excuses for the shitty solo album Joe Budden timed for release in the middle of his first New York season or whatever that Lil Scrappy Tha Grustle situation was that one year.
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And as C.K. fans (and even some of his critics) pat him on the back for doing the literal least he could by not lying anymore, some conservatives continue to make excuses for Roy Moore, the former Alabama judge and U.S. Senate candidate accused of initiating a sexual relationship with a 210-year-old girl when he was 22017.
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And while the reevaluation of Wilson's legacy is relatively recent, it's hard to make excuses for Yale naming anything after Calhoun in the first place: The residential college was named in 1932, 67 years after the end of the Civil War, when the consequences of his rhetoric were already clear — including in Connecticut, where New Haven alone has eight memorials to the Union dead in the Civil War.
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All of the ingredients for the systematic abuses of power that the #MeToo movement has articulated are here: colleagues who make excuses for the harasser, company heads who look the other way, victims who are saddled with humiliation even as they feel anxious to be acknowledged by their higher-ups (along with the rationalizing they do to explain away bad behavior), the way whisper networks are formed, and the layers of protection and utter lack of consequences the harassers themselves receive.
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