Sentences with phrase «excuse for poor performance»

Constantly making excuses for poor performances, and never taking personal responsibility.

That is interesting and I also like the fact that Wenger has already removed one possible excuse for any poor performances from the Arsenal players.

John Ibrahim, stop making pathetic excuses for another poor performance.

That seemed to be a feeble excuse for a poor performance, considering that just over a week beforehand we had beaten Tottenham 1 - 0 at home with possibly our best display of the entire season.

Each modifier provided the Bulldogs with built - in excuses for a poor performance in the St. Petersburg Bowl.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

It's this group that blurs the line between actual illness and the kind of «not feeling well» that can be an excuse for poor performance or absences.

Its executives, newly minted CEO Don Mattrick, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, COO David Ko and CFO Mark Vranesh, made no excuses for the poor performance.

Find another excuse for a poor performance?

There is literally no excuse for his poor performances and despite Pochettino's brilliant tactical nouse, he has really made a mess here.

What's handy here is that I have two excuses for my poor performance that don't involve my lack of athleticism: for one, my body recently birthed a baby, so no one expects it to be in top form (except that «What's Your Excuse?»

With use of taxes, there is no longer the recourse to the excuse for poor performance along the lines of «it's not fair, they've cut my allowance».

He told a journalist some ethnic minority soldiers were «idle and useless» and cried racism as an excuse for poor performance.

Students should not take the identification of a learning disability as an excuse for poor performance, Levine argues, but rather as a reason to work all the harder.

«No excuses» — meaning not hunger or sickness or poverty or anything else was an excuse for poor performance — became a motto of some charter schools when it came to student performance.

Conversations about education reform have generally avoided or minimized the impact of poverty on student success, either because of the belief that poverty is too difficult a challenge to address directly or out of concern that poverty will be used as an excuse for poor performance.

Successful schools seem to really know their young people, families and communities and are able to respond to their context while not accepting disadvantage as an excuse for poor performance.

Unfortunately, in the investing world, a long term perspective is often times an excuse for poor performance.