"We have a highway bill now, which I guess people will use as an excuse not to do more," he said.
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He even tried that after 9/11—which he sought unsuccessfully to use as an excuse to extend his second term.
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The actual result has been lower wages and a ballooning deficit that Republicans want to use as an excuse to cut Medicare and Social Security.
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Trump could change his mind at any moment, but until at least September, he won't have a House of Representatives vote he can use as an excuse.
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It was the kind of weather I'd typically use as an excuse to sit around watching reruns of Law & Order: SVU with a fan pointed directly at me.
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"The skepticism and the questions that I raised were very specific around incidents that the Trump administration was trying to use as an excuse to launch a U.S. military attack in Syria," she added.
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"He would be less likely then, I think, to try and use as an excuse that she had consented to sexual violence," said Edwards, who has been tracking and working on domestic violence cases since the 1980s.
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It's probably more accurate to say these voters were always going to vote for Trump all along, but they were just waiting for some kind of visible change in his campaign or news event to use as an excuse to say that's what changed their mind.
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He is subject to oversight by the deputy attorney general, and he can be fired for many different reasons, including "misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest" and "for other good cause," an uncomfortably broad and entirely subjective reason that's easy to use as an excuse.
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The provisional government was set up after the occupation of Bajor by Cardassia ended in 2369. It consisted of a council of elected officials headed by the First Minister and was responsible for administration of the planet and to a certain extent Deep Space Nine. A three-part arc, "The Homecoming", "The Circle", and "The Siege", featured a story about the Provisional Government and its inability to resolve an explosive political revolution. In the immediate aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawal, many characters felt the provisional government would collapse within a matter of weeks, leading to civil war (which the Cardassians might use as an excuse to return to "restore order").
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Marlowe visits Mrs Grayle, who finds him attractive and hires him, which he can use as an excuse to continue investigating the two murders. They make a date to meet again at the club of a local hoodlum, Laird Brunette, near the spot where Marriott was killed. At Amthor's office, Marlowe probes him for his connection to Marriott and the drugs. Amthor calls in a pair of Bay City detectives out of their jurisdiction to arrest Marlowe, claiming Marlowe tried to blackmail him, but instead of taking him to jail, they knock him unconscious and lock him up in a private hospital run by Dr. Sonderborg, a drug dealer who keeps him docile with drug injections.
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Larger units had military councils consisting of the commander, commissar and chief of staff – commissars ensured the loyalty of the commanding officers and implemented Party orders. Following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, of the Baltic states and of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1939–1940, Stalin insisted on the occupation of every fold of the newly Sovietized territories; this move westward positioned troops far from their depots, in salients that left them vulnerable to encirclement. As tension heightened in spring, 1941, Stalin desperately tried not to give Hitler any provocation that Berlin could use as an excuse for a German attack; Stalin refused to allow the military to go on the alert – even as German troops gathered on the borders and German reconnaissance planes overflew installations. This refusal to take necessary action was instrumental in the destruction of major portions of the Red Air Force, lined up on its airfields, in the first days of the German-Soviet war.
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