Sentences with phrase «excuse me»

Suddenly, even linking to data was an excuse to get raided by the FBI and potentially face serious charges.

Consider storing energy yourself — this is a great excuse to invest in Tesla products.

«It gave us an excuse to do a lot of research with professors, with fellow students, with alumni.

«If someone is admitting that they committed the murder, it's a pretty tough burden to get a jury to say, «Let's excuse him anyway,»» said Dallas defense attorney Michael Snipes.

Writer Stephanie Huston says her thinking that she didn't have enough time turned out to be a lame excuse.

Polite and smiling, they asked, «Excuse me, sir / madame, would you happen to have a euro for the bus?»

«She posted a work out video on Facebook, tagged me and her daughter in it, and wrote «now you have no excuse» under it.»

Buying into an excuse system has an unfortunate way of becoming a self - fulfilling prophecy.

There's only one excuse for not contributing — and most people can't use it.

However, a spread collar is also a fine choice for going tieless, whether you're pairing your white dress shirt with a light - colored summer suit — a perfect excuse to ditch the neckwear altogether — or wearing it with a crisp pair of chinos or jeans for a casual evening out.

If you're thinking that you simply can't carve the time out to meditate — that's a poor excuse.

I'd just briefly explain it at the start of the conversation — «I'm dealing with some voice issues; please excuse my voice» or any other wording that you're comfortable with.

«There's no excuse, because it's really «Programming 101,»» Sivers says.

Your new excuse for tardiness - «Sorry I'm late sir, my brain's got a problem judging ETAs for familiar routes»,» quips BPS.

I like the cool country gas stations where we stopped, and I'm glad this trip gave me an excuse to eat at McDonald's.

You should excuse yourself from it, or recuse yourself from it,» he said.

And therefore that is one excuse or a couple of excuses why the gender pay gap is there, but it's not good enough.»

Not as an excuse but as an explanation, we don't typically sell cases of water.

Even The Power of Nice cautions that win - win thinking is often «a loser's excuse for surrender.»

So the next time you'd like to excuse yourself for forgetting someone's name without offending the person, just say something like, «Oh sorry, I was just overly concerned with telling you my own name to remember yours.

It's an excuse to do nothing.

Luck is an excuse and it unfairly minimizes the hard work it takes to be successful.

All of this to say, claiming that «I'm just not the creative type» is a pretty weak excuse for avoiding creative thinking.

But if there's a pattern in what we see, be it an opportunity or a problem, fear of change quickly slips away as an excuse to ignore what we see.

Excuse yourself and move on.

But that's like saying, «Every time there's an important discussion, I'll excuse myself,» and that's just not the way I like to work.

There's no excuse for it not being on the tail, in place of that hideous tricolor swoop.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told CNBC Friday that U.S. sanctions are an excuse to gain economic advantage.

For Michael Bloomberg, media mogul and former New York City mayor, this can no longer be an excuse.

Slapping an «excuse the typos» onto the end won't stop people from judging you for sounding like a teenager, either.

If you've decided that you want to relax more at work, you need to execute your plan — without any excuse.

Not that you necessarily need an excuse to grab a cold one.

There really is no excuse.»

That's the biggest excuse I hear from clients.

We continue to rationalize delays to the point where we start to believe just about any excuse we give ourselves.

«Some Americans can feel that having a president that got there using that type of language gives them an excuse to behave however they want,» David says.

I wrote about goal - setting recently, that it's much better to focus on daily goals you can manage now rather than long - term goals that give you an excuse to slip.

Still this is no excuse for treating experts in a slipshod fashion.

But being stressed and busy is no excuse.

«We've got fantastic retention and we have an amazing place to work and we all share the same values... We've rejected people who would have been fantastic for business and bring one or two million in through the door but — excuse my French — are just assholes.

The official was dismayed, but he accepted the excuse and left.

This gives me an excuse to sit down and think about who in my company deserves a pat on the back.

Even though the two services are very alike, Hunt doesn't see the HBO house of cards — my pun, please excuse it — toppling any time soon since it still makes billions from its traditional cable deals.

It cost a lot of money, it was an excuse to violate the civil liberties of a lot of Americans, and it challenges the notice that people get to make their private choices.

Right now, the AirPods turn music playback controls into an excuse to use Siri.

AI and marketing automation does its part to make the connections, but this is not an excuse to get lazy with your messaging and commitment to creating real - life relationships.

Testing is cost - effective and data - driven, so there's no excuse to get stuck in R&D for too long.

Trump may have been aiming for the phrase «military precision,» linguist Ben Zimmer told Business Insider, but that wouldn't necessarily excuse him, either.

Play the game and take it as an excuse.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.