Sentences with phrase «convenient excuse»

Even your parents can find many convenient excuses to avoid the process.

Both forms of denying our embodiment in this world provide convenient excuses for ignoring the needs of others as individuals are allowed to focus solely on their own personal spiritual needs.»

Why, or when rather, aside from convenient excuses accomodating lame reasons like no effective tranquilizers or appropriate relocation options, are we going to start extending our human hand in kindness and empathy by helping rather than killing.

And you must admit, it is a very convenient excuse to pretend the Bible doesn't say what it says.

«Theft of service» was just a convenient excuse to axe him because he didn't get along with his manager, he argues, noting that he opened the store and handled money without incident.

If you're using your Millennial employees as a convenient excuse to jettison over-controlling policies or outdated tech that annoy your entire staff, go ahead.

It's a convenient excuse.

With the Prime price increase, Amazon will reinvest the $ 2 billion in extra revenue into its rapid expansion of fulfillment centers, which should lower shipping costs — and could also add value to Prime by making one - day (or even same - day) shipping more economically viable, which could then serve as a convenient excuse to raise the price of Prime once again.

Because they were always a minority population wherever they lived, the dominant polity found them a convenient excuse for whatever went wrong — crop failure, the plague, drought, flooding, excessive cold temperatures, excessive warm temperatures, defeat of the army by an enemy.

Or is it just a convenient excuse for self - righteous hatred of those that have faith, that tries to appear correct and enlightened?

Besides, I don't have any real authority there... I'm just there for pulpit supply (How's that for a convenient excuse?).

It has provided a convenient excuse for childish atheism and shattered many aspects of human community and family life.

I know, isn't it funny how they have a convenient excuse for everything.

Convenient excuse to save money.

It's just a convenient excuse people use to be a petulant jerk.

And, of course, there is always concern that budget restraints will serve as a convenient excuse if there are further delays in the FDA's food safety efforts.

It is a convenient excuse for something that does not need excusing.

On the other hand, we have seen some awful games from the Gunners before which have not been at the end of a transfer window, so do you accept Wenger's explanation or is it just a convenient excuse?

Cazorla is just an convenient excuse.

Winston Reid is suspended and injured although the latter might just be a convenient excuse to avoid travelling down under for two World Cup fixtures against New Caledonia.

I was under the impression that the baby friendly designation was a convenient excuse to reduce costs by closing the well baby nursery.

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So I'll use that as my convenient excuse for potentially creating some confusion this morning with my post about a petition by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to ban milk from the National School Lunch Program.

He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.

«Competitiveness» can be used as a convenient excuse for opposing popular tax rises on high earners, while presenting the right as sensible pragmatists and the left as unrealistic ideologues.

The demonisation of council estate residents is a convenient excuse to create a false narrative to justify the demolition of inner city estates, where property and land value is at a premium.

It's a convenient excuse to claim «national security interests» to cover up wrong - doing.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

The Commons science and technology committee's report found that health and safety was often levelled as a «convenient excuse» for declining practical experiments and trips.

The Republican's obsession with debt (or maybe that's just a convenient excuse) has them calling for more and bigger cuts in government spending.

That's a convenient excuse for doing nothing!

Fellow Tory Jacob Rees - Mogg, a member of the Commons Treasury Select Committee, said the Chancellor had found a «convenient excuse».

The further cuts to NSF - mandated science observations that would likely be required to fulfill a Breakthrough Listen partnership could consequently provide the NSF with a convenient excuse to justify divestment.

This is especially important when dealing with a child on the GAPS diet, which also offers a convenient excuse to your critics — few dare put down a parent for trying to help their child heal from physical or mental ailments.

After a bit of digging, we found that the truth was that she was actually scared to get up on stage, and so was using her weight as a convenient excuse to not give the talk.

But the truth is, although many of us have hectic schedules, sometimes being «too busy» is just a convenient excuse.

Namely because I just felt like I was «too busy» to do my research — a convenient excuse for anyone who's just plain avoiding things.

The idea that everyone has his or her version of the truth, which Tonya too - explicitly states, is both conventional and a convenient excuse for the film to not ask tougher questions.

The beaches are nice enough, but the locals are an insular lot, using the murders as a convenient excuse to give temporary migrant workers a hard time.

It's not always easy to explain the reasons for a flops, and I can't conjure a convenient excuse for Little Nicky.