Sentences with phrase «age as an excuse»

Neymar is young... Isco is young... Please don't use their age as an excuse.

People keep using Henderson's age as an excuse and whilst he has time on his hands, I do not buy it.

Stop using age as an excuse to hold you back.

Don't use your age as an excuse to let yourself go.

I'm sick of the «girls» my age using age as an excuse to go out every other night and party.

As a dog trainer Baltimore, when owners adopt puppies or young dogs, I commonly hear these people using their pet's age as an excuse for the dog's behavior problems.

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If the US went insane like this anytime Christianity, Catholicism or any of the major US religions was insulted, our country would never get anything accomplished and still be in the dark ages... so maybe these nations that apparently haven't evolved to the point of being able to tolerate an insult like the rest of us have had to should take a lesson and use their energy to better their own country instead of using any insult as an excuse to violence... grow up already and get over yourselves, everyone else has had to.

Feminism was financed by the CIA with the intention of «taxing the other half of the population» and «getting children into pre-school at a younger age so as to indoctrinate them»... there is nothing about «women's rights» involved... that is just the excuse.

Her only excuse for being a «liberal» in this matter was that the pain and suffering she had endured as an aging widow who had reared a large family alone had purged her heart of the pride that prevents people from loving and understanding others.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

They had some excuse for their view; theirs was the age of the «evangelical united front» for social reform, and the stubborn resistance of Catholics could be seen as a short - term result of their foreignness Unfortunately, the common beliefs and values on which the «common school» rested have been dissolved away by the acids of modernity.

So, if they are using his age and his recent medical conditions as an excuse for his behavior and his comments, then why is he still allowed to function and give interviews?

I'm sick and tired of this clueless French man full of excuses run our club to the ground as he is nearing (for me, well past) his retirement age.

there will be excuses such as someone retiring or ageing to sign another centreback next season

As if that wasn't enough, it's an excuse to break out the glitter and glue, an approved way to delight children of all ages.

My parents worked - same age as her parents - and all of us t urned out okay - my wife excuse is that she has to be there for the k ids BUT they are out from 630 to 4 pm everyday - wtf

Those skills must be be predefined (a.k.a. standards) or we risk using age - old excuses as justification for not trying everything in our power to educate all children to their full potential.

My kids don't sleep in, so I use their young ages and early bedtimes as an excuse to skip out on many evening social events (which helps me get to bed at a good time throughout the holidays too!).

Here are some things you may be doing to block love from entering your life: You're not really trying to meet the right man; you complain to your friends and family that there are no good men out there; you think all men are cheaters; you think it's impossible to meet a man because there are more women than men in your city; you keep making excuses as to why you can't meet someone; you're stuck in a past relationship; you're using your looks or work to hold you back; you think men your age just want to date younger women; you think of yourself as a victim; or you're afraid of the love you deserve, being vulnerable, and / or intimacy.

Her mother, LaVona Golden, is abusive, emotionally and physically, and excuses her abuse as a kind of encouragement of her daughter, who showed talent on the ice from a very young age; Allison Janney's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Girl on the Train) outrageous performance is funny only in the audacity of Golden's horribleness.

Once a smuggler, always a smuggler, therefore excusing making no attempt to advance Han Solo as a character in middle age.

His character represents the gap between adolescence and middle age, in that he's as lost as Sam and Suzy, but with fewer excuses.

to take any action otherwise prohibited under subsections (a), (b), (c), or (e) of this section where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business, or where differentiation is based on reasonable factors other than age; to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan such as a retirement, pension, or insurance plan, which is not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of this Act, except that no such employee benefit plan shall excuse the failure to hire any individual; or to discharge or otherwise discipline an individual for good cause

As for the automotive industry, some brands continue to resonate with Millennials while others can only make excuses for lackluster sales among the age demographic.

For instance, I was gifted «Madd Addam» a few months back and though I have been looking forwards to this novel for ages I've only had the time to read 32 pages as I've been so busy so please excuse my lack of modern reference.

Besides, it's been ages since I bought a game close to launch for full (ish) price, so this seems as good an excuse as any to make an exception.

Anyone who points to the claims of «an ice age beginning» back in the 70's as an excuse to dismiss the science of today is being very disingenuous, unethical and misleading, because the climate was undeniably cooling during the 70's although it was not understood at the time.

You had published an article stating that it isn't age that matters, you can't use this as an excuse for not getting a job.

In an age where learning a software skill is as easy as Googling an online course, there's no excuse for not learning what you need to do in order to do what you want.

She realized that even at a young age her parents used this statement as an excuse for why they didn't have more material possessions.