excusa
excuse ; apology ; false pretence ; pretence [pretense, -USA] ; cop-out.
The excuse for this is to allow a clerk to easily make a title entry for it.
I shall not quickly forget being halted in full flight by the explosive entrance of a lecturer who, without pause for reflection or apology, set about an unfortunate student for not being at a tutorial.
That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.
Automated cataloging support systems, with any pretense to sophistication, did not begin to appear until the inception of the LC/MARC II (Library of Congress/Machine-Readable Cataloging) project in late 1967.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
con la excusa de
in the name of
under the mantle of
under the flag of
under the guise of
in the guise of
Historically, however, humans have always sought to capture and preserve - in the name of efficiency, effectiveness, and/or predictability of outcomes - such basic functions by institutionalizing them.
In this woeful film, under the mantle of a 'bitter-sweet romantic comedy,' Poliakoff lets his maudlin sentiments and fears run riot.
When the news media in the United States serve as a megaphone for government policy, they do so under the flag of responsible journalism; when foreign media do the same, however, it is called 'propaganda'.
Although the application of policies requires an exercise of judgment, violation of the policy under the guise of 'flexibility' should be avoided.
Further, these indexers are probably so familiar with their subject area that, they whether in the guise of indexer or searcher, will profit little from any additional guides to relationships.
dar una excusa
give + an excuse
make + excuse
After years of silence, double-talk and cover-ups by the ALA the current vicious attack gives the ALA no excuse for failing to take action.
The initial thing you need to do is acknowledge that you goofed up - don't make excuses for it and don't try to obscure it up.
excusa justificada
justified excuse
I don't think that killing in polytheistic societies gives monotheistic religion the right to do the same, that's not a justified excuse.
excusa muy pobre
lame excuse
This one is one of the lame excuses almost always used when an individual is not coping, out their depth and in over their head.
excusa poco convincente
lame excuse
This one is one of the lame excuses almost always used when an individual is not coping, out their depth and in over their head.
excusas
alibi
The article 'Myths and alibis' suggests that the enormity of the nuclear threat is now sufficient to prompt Western librarians to acknowledge the political and moral dimensions of their work.
quedarse sin excusas
run out of + excuses
Tuesday, after much delaying and procrastinating, I finally ran out of excuses and went to the passport office.
sin excusa justificada
unexcused
Many school districts have adopted a hard-line approach to reducing unexcused absenteeism; in one such district, truancy rates were reduced 45 percent when truants and their parents were taken to court.
