Sentences with phrase «convenient excuses for»

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.»

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?

What a convenient excuse for not holding on to Gods commandments.

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

Looking ahead to Absalom's arrogant rebellion against his father, so soon to follow, we wonder if this is not also, and perhaps chiefly, a convenient excuse for removing the king's oldest son Amnon, who might have proved an obstacle to Absalom's own consuming ambition.

In reflecting on the power of the will as it relates to the concept of the unconscious, Rank observed: «It is astonishing how much the patient knows and how little is unconscious if one does not give him this convenient excuse for refusing responsibility.»

So I'll use that as my convenient excuse for potentially creating some confusion this morning with my... [Continue reading]

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.

That's a convenient excuse for doing nothing!

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

CABE's own school board training program indeeds show compelling data about poverty being a convenient excuse for the professionals in schools not having the range and depth within their professinal repertoire to educate poor children.

Meanwhile, CABE's own school board training program indeed presents other compelling data from national research about poverty being a convenient excuse for the professionals in schools not having the range and depth within their professional repertoire to educate poor children.

«While «health and safety» may be used as a convenient excuse for avoiding practicals and work outside the classroom, we consider that there are more fundamental reasons why many students are receiving poor practical science experiences during their school education.»

I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up ebook prices, which they've always wanted to do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about what ebook buyers are willing to pay.

• Blaming forthcoming regulations for breeders is a convenient excuse for closure.

If I had a yard it would be nothing more than a convenient excuse for me to dump him in it and not deal with the problem.

Fire effects are outstanding, and the game's space - hopping plot makes a convenient excuse for creating a number of unique alien worlds for Dalton to fight in.

Another is our ability to be energized by that urgency, rather than paralyzed by nihilistic despair — whether real, or feigned as a convenient excuse for inaction.

And it also gives a convenient excuse for using the model to extend the available data to avoid end effects when filtering.

I stand by my earlier assertion that the «hide the decline» meme has become a convenient excuse for dismissing all of climate science.

In KP there is still a fuss about surplus AAU and their carry over (the «hot air» issue) but it all seems to be a convenient excuse for the EU to just blame Poland for lack of EU ambition.

Not exact matches

someone, you are absolutely correct, these doctors are front men getting paid; and it sounds good but not good enough James, and JWT, but no matter how you change it it is not right by YHWH, and romans is not the best of book, for that matter the NT is not a guide to follow, it comes, and goes, just like christian s using what is convenient to them only to excuse the wrong.

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...

That's pretty convenient for the church, because as long as they praise us for being strong in the midst of suffering, they're excused from having to do anything about our suffering.

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.

Free - range parenting should not be used to excuse parents making convenient decisions that might not be best for their kids.

Breastfeeding provides a convenient «excuse» for the men, so we do need to deal with the gender inequality inherent in women having to do more of the child care.

Ghanaians are not in the mood for convenient politicking and rampant excuse - making.

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.

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.

All this talk about being a hardgainer isn't my favorite thing to talk about though because the reality is that way too many guys (some of who aren't actually hardgainers) use their hardgainer label as a convenient excuse to not pursue their dream physique or to avoid pushing themselves too hard because they've bought into false beliefs such as «building a large, muscular, strong, ripped physique isn't possible for me» etc..

In a sense, I think the drought became a convenient excuse since it was the source of such despair for so many of the residents and became an easy explanation for what would motivate someone to perform such terrible acts.

Most likely, nobody believed that fiction, but it made for a convenient excuse when pouring over the adventures of «Lady S --» and «Lord T --».

If we adopt sociological explanations for why we behave in a certain way, it provides a convenient and «scientific» excuse

For politicians, claiming that the big wildfires are the result of global warming provides a convenient excuse not to address the real problems: