Exempel på excusing

• Will you excuse me? I've got to make a phone call.

• Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.

• I know you are tired, but I really can't excuse you for being so rude and selfish about this.

• She is almost too kind - always excusing their bad behaviour instead of dealing with it firmly.

• Her boss cannot excuse even the smallest error, although he himself is far from perfect.

• Moreover, measuring the extent of a person's desert of punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions about excusing and mitigating circumstances.

• None can be considered ' revisionist ' in elucidating an apologia for colonialism or in excusing sins of commission and omission for which the colonialists bore responsibility.

• Sandwiched between two traps- being soft on crime and excusing riot-related violence-liberals had to forgo their ideal outcomes and moved closer to the conservative position.

• In contrast, selfblaming affect had no association with self excusing.

• They also know that those who call them untranslatable are excusing themselves from engaging in acts of interpretation.

• Duress is (in some cases) an excusing condition.

• Causation, even by an "abnormal" variable, is not an excusing condition.

• I always used to find a rational reason for excusing my deeds.

• The causal abnormality must produce a genuine, independent excusing condition, such as irrationality, for a moral or legal excuse to obtain.

• In other cases, anti-adaptationists committed the naturalistic fallacy and thought that adaptationists were excusing certain undesirable patterns of behavior when they claimed those behaviors were adaptations.

• Delgado claims that if any one of these four excusing conditions held, the individual who committed a crime should be excused.

• Both can reinforce illness behaviour by over-prescribing rest, encouraging medication use, giving misleading interpretations of symptoms, and endorsing a sick role by excusing school or providing sickness certification.

• Berl himself hesitated, excusing himself on the insufficiency of information on which to base his judgement.

• The problem with this account is that the excusing effects of provocation and duress can also be explained in terms of their undermining a person's responsibility for his acts.

• The old maxim about ignorance of the law excusing nobody should be applied.