Sentences with phrase «excuse of our a long list»

The excuse of our a long list of injured players doesn't just cut it for me.

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The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

I know I have been slacking on my recipes lately, I have a long list of excuses, but without boring you with my life story, let's just say that I have been overwhelmed.

Our list of excuses is long... Our key members are injured (tell us about it): we dominate but lack the killer instinct and it goes on.

Most of these people also have a long list of excuses.

If you're like me, you could probably make a nice long list of excuses to skip your workout and, though you may not be able to get rid of this voice entirely, knowing it's there and how to deal with it is crucial for making the right choice.

(I could list some of the movies referenced in Date Movie, but that would just be an excuse to make this review longer.)

Instead of giving you a laundry list of excuses as to why it's taken such a long time, I'm going to attempt to never let it slide this long again.

Unless you consider the long list of what amount to excuses for the lack of correlation between CO2 levels and warming as evidence.

With such a long shopping list of potential measures to chose from, there really is no excuse for inaction.

The incredibly long list of excuses as to why expecting a climate model to accurately forecast the f **** g climate `