It's not an excuse to neglect your health.

The difficulty in measuring the quality of the “output” of social services should not be an excuse for neglecting the issue of their productivity.

Terrorism requires intensive cooperation between Governments and between international organizations, but we must not use the need for partnership as an excuse to neglect our individual responsibilities.

However, that distinction should serve only as a guide as to the part UNHCR could play in the international division of labour and should not be used as an excuse for neglecting the Office's non-core activities.

This complexity is no excuse for neglect of the issue, however, and the Representative fully intends to promote efforts to prevent displacement in the first instance in the various activities under his mandate and to address the issue more directly in future reports.