Sentences with phrase «accept these excuses as»

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I understand why people are gun - shy and sometimes fail to listen to their gut, especially if they have failed before, but I don't (and won't) accept that as an excuse.

Coming to the conclusion that faith is a terrible excuse for accepting something as true is a painstaking journey many of us have experienced.

It is an excuse to abandon reason, and accept fantasies as reality.

The parable of the great banquet, which in somewhat variant forms appears in Matthew 22:1 - 14 and Luke 14:12 - 24, has as its theme the divine invitation which must be accepted without excuses.

But when it comes to accepting information that is provably untrue and ultimately damaging to others, we as Christians are without excuse.

People need to accept that and quit being hypocrites who just use the Bible as an excuse.

Yes, Jesus a Liberal... and Ken you are a frightened human being... let it go... I'm not pushing anything on anyone... Christ loves everyone... man was made in God's image so deal with it... and me2 you and I both know it was the conservatives who wanted slavery... Abe Lincoln would be sickened by what has happened to his party... he was a man who stood on principle and believed in good for the common man... way different than the party you are tied to... Price... I agree with you in that there are many good Christians... unfortunately, there are many who are very ignorant and use Christ / God as a convenient excuse to denounce what they don't accept...

It is reasonable to assume that just as God has revealed enough of Himself for people to reject Him without excuse, He has revealed enough of Himself for people to accept Him without rejection.

While some Arsenal fans as well as the generally not as sympathetic folk who make up the football media will call any attempt to come up with a reason for Arsenal falling to nine points off the Premier League leaders Chelsea just looking for an excuse, I think we have to look at the latest season full of injury problems and accept that this will have a negative effect on the Gunners or any side for that matter.

So rather than making excuses for under - performing, rationalizing or glossing over the issue and wearing rose - tinted glasses, I suggest we accept the fact that there is a problem and we need to completely solve it as quickly as possible.

@johnsouttar How long are we expected to accept the «world - class» stadium as an excuse for not winning trophies?

As long as we don't fully accept the deficiencies in our squad and do something about them there will always be excusAs long as we don't fully accept the deficiencies in our squad and do something about them there will always be excusas we don't fully accept the deficiencies in our squad and do something about them there will always be excuses

We should only use youngsters when they're shown able to play on the same level as our first team like Iwobi, the excuse that our future is bright should not be a reason for Arsenal fans to accept mediocrity and broken promises.

A jet - lag excuse will not be accepted by Gooners as a reason for not collecting all the 3 points that are going to be at stake tomorrow.

We might sometimes think that all these people are bashing us but they I think they all have high expectations for us, they expect us to be more than what are giving for a club of our status, you don't see them criticizing Spuds, Liverpool, Everton etc as much as they do us because they know we are so close to being a real challenging team but we have accepted and convinced ourselves with our excuses..

Ken I accept that the players are responsible and there is no excuse for the debacle such as at Swansea last week.Of course Wenger didn't coach them to make these mistakes but when it is week in week out you have no option other than to look at the root of who where and why and it alls comes down on Wenger.These are all very good players who have all played and play international football for their respective countries, so the odd mistake is part and parcel but it is more than this and the evidence is there in black and white for all to see.

«I will not accept that as an excuse.

If a man was having a bad day, we wouldn't accept that as an excuse for domestic violence.

If you're afraid of having fear in the first place, if you avoid accepting your fear, then breaking out of what holds you back will feel so massive that you'll use food or spending as an excuse to keep you distracted, safe and small.

So instead of hiding behind medical classifications and genetic excuses, we'd be all better off by accepting reality as it is.

So I'm not going to accept too many excuses as to why you «can't»

If all women are empathisers, and men are systemisers (excuse the generalisations here) what hope can there be, except to accept each other with all our foibles and try to manage as best we can, which is what men and women have been doing for centuries.

It's hard to keep accepting excuses that the Wii U isn't doing well, as the LEGO games have traditionally done well on the platform.

«I have no excuse nor can I justify the many years I spent in a bubble, worrying only about myself,» Caso said as he accepted the Career Achievement in Television Award.

Even if the practices of FGM were grounded on actual and commonly accepted religious or cultural basis, this could certainly not be used as a form of excuse or justification for this custom's (FGM's) acceptance and integration in a society.

They keep working on a theory, taking into account, but not accepting as excuse, the conditions in which the students and the schools come to you.

It was the direct result of the competitive pressure infused into a system that had long — and incorrectly — accepted poverty as an excuse for failure, and took the task seriously of reinventing all educational offerings with rich and varied new approaches and content to drive them.

Knowledgeable, passionate, engaging, consistent, in control, able to set high standards and help their students achieve them, as well as not prone to accepting excuses when students didn't.

And, since we don't accept «we serve difficult students» as a blanket excuse when evaluating traditional school districts, we shouldn't accept it for online schools either.

As the schools in the study suggest, we achieve nothing by making — or accepting — excuses for schools that aren't performing.

Excuse me as this is my first experience with you, but I was under the impression you would then need to review my submission and decide if you would accept it.

As a traditionally published author, you owe your publisher your presence on the book promotion trail, and «I'm too busy,» «I have a headache,» or «I don't like to do interviews» will not be accepted as excuses for your lack of participatioAs a traditionally published author, you owe your publisher your presence on the book promotion trail, and «I'm too busy,» «I have a headache,» or «I don't like to do interviews» will not be accepted as excuses for your lack of participatioas excuses for your lack of participation.

Breeders can come out with a variety of excuses about why they have not had their dogs checked, but since it is not expensive when you consider the price of a puppy, and can cause great distress to you the owner, as well as your dog, do not accept these excuses.

I usually avoid using the word «denier», but a refusal to accept that the world is warmer than it has been since records began and that temperatures continue to rise quickly, can not be excused as healthy contrarianism.

Or you can continue to refuse to accept the presence of the elephant in the room, seizing on mice as an excuse.

Though I won't credit all my whining about the need for the Supreme Court to start addressing all the important issues left unresolved by Blakely and Booker (see, e.g., here and here), I will celebrate the big news coming from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog that the Court today granted cert in «a significant sequel to its series of rulings on the roles of judges and juries in criminal sentencing» by accepting for review «the issue of whether a violation of the jury's role in sentencing can ever be excused as «harmless error.»»

This struck me at the time as an odd conclusion: in a way, the trial judge accepted the GP should have done something, but because a bunch of colleagues wouldn't have done it either (and therefore, not surprisingly, thought she had acted reasonably), excused her..

As noted above, the court will accept few excuses from a father who fails to pay child support.

Typically, the class of defences known as justifications and excuses, when accepted, exonerate the accused completely.

Schedule 14: changes to reasonable excuses — provides that drug or alcohol dependency will no longer be accepted as a reasonable excuse where a jobseeker has failed to meet their participation requirements.