Sentences with phrase «excuses about»

But the months before and weeks after have been spent apologising to anyone who'll listen for my poor parenting, making excuses about what a great time the kids had with their cousins, explaining we couldn't afford to take them, assuring all and sundry that I'll never do it again.

I made garbled excuses about needing to pick the kids up from school... and — because I'm not very good at saying no, even to shop assistants — assured her I'd come back later when I had more time.

For the first few months he made excuses about all the real books beside his bed he had to read first, until it finally became apparent the Kindle was missing.

People have a lot of excuses about why they aren't» investing in real estate.

Because their rent is a fixed amount annually, they too can schedule automatic payments; no more excuses about forgetting to pay the rent.

He agrees to do something one day and then gives her a thousand excuses about why it's not done the next.

It is easy to make excuses about why things won't work but use your energy to decide why things will work.

When someone invites me to dinner at a place I can't stand I no longer offer excuses about my heavy -LSB-...]

Don't run around making up excuses about your son's soccer game when everyone knows you are single and childless.

I found the Freedom model quick and easy to use, and I really liked the small size of the unit (no more excuses about why the purifier didn't make it into the bag).

This is basically what every company means when they make excuses about «possible no port»: if someone gives them enough money, they'll do it.

Lame excuses about PS3 architecture don't cut any ice.

i said developers don't have any more excuses about ps4 since it's not hard to work with and have the best hardware so multiplat games will look better on ps4 and as it seems... i was right

I see a lot of people who give excuses about not traveling but honestly, if it is a priority, you will always make time for both.

Be sure to listen to hear what she has to say on if you are serious about becoming a travel writer and «to not make excuses about attending conferences.

Breeders can come out with a variety of excuses about why they have not had their dogs checked, but since it is not expensive when you consider the price of a puppy, and can cause great distress to you the owner, as well as your dog, do not accept these excuses.

Never buy a puppy from someone who wants to meet you away from their own home, or who makes excuses about why you can't meet the puppy's mother.

If you don't want your dog being physically hurt or threatened, don't accept any excuses about how or why someone pinches, pokes, alpha rolls, yells at, shocks, squirts or throws things at dogs.

Unlike the US studies, the UK team quantified their results, so there can be no excuses about dirty trucks, or air currents in a warehouse.

No matter what kind of dog you have, never let a dog trainer make excuses about your dog not being able to be trained because of its breed or size.

Do not accept excuses about not seeing the bitch with her puppies, or about how they were involved in an «accident» which has left a lasting behavioural problem for instance — puppies should be able to get over these things.

(The fact that a balanced conservative portfolio is up over 12 % YTD and we're making excuses about the poor performance is one reason this market is overheated.

Because it's easy to make excuses about why you can't save if you wait until everything is paid.

Because everything is automated, you won't miss the money, you won't be able to make excuses about why you forgot to do it, and you won't be taken by surprise when it's time to retire in style.

March is absolutely stacked with deadlines; so no excuses about not submitting!

But most of us lie to ourselves with excuses about why we should do everything but write.

Authors: Bottom line, it's time to stop making excuses about social media!

You don't take to FB or other social media avenues to make excuses about why you are doing it this way.

Don't make excuses about why a mistake is not your fault.

I remember making up lots of excuses about how I was studying a topic that didn't have references in the children's section.

And, most important, to the extent the charter schools did well, and we believed in our bones many would, they would put pressure on the public schools to stop making excuses about why they weren't successfully educating kids from poor communities.

The ones who quoted philosophy books they never read and used elaborate excuses about fighting conformity as an excuse to ditch class and go smoke in back of the 7 - Eleven.

These top five dating sites for pet lovers offer pet - loving singles a new leash on love — no more excuses about pet allergies or phobias.

And part of growing that self confidence is to override that inner critic that makes up excuses about why you shouldn't talk to women.

Again, this is something you need to do without apologizing or making excuses about.

But then there is a roadblock - your date starts making excuses about not wanting to meet you and then emails you asking you for money for a personal reason.

They might make excuses about why they don't want to meet in person.

This site even mentions the prevalence of dating... that their «love» is hurtful and doesn't feel loving at all, generally we get back a host of gaslighting excuses about how our big problem is that we're not using the same loopy definition...

STOP MAKING EXCUSES ABOUT YOUR WEAK BENCH PRESS AND START MAKING PROGRESS WITH THE... Ted Arcidi «Boss of the Bench Press» E-Report

While I appreciate the article and do believe that many people make excuses about why they have weight, I have to share that because of that sort of advice, my thyroid issue went undiagnosed for years.

There are 24 hours in a day, and this workout is just 24 minutes in total, meaning excuses about «not having the time» are not allowed!

I understand what your saying about there being no excuses about being over weight but I have never had children or been pregnant so I can't really comment on whether having kids does make it almost impossible to excercise or how baby wright works.

However, what would you choose: whining and making excuses about how hard your life is because you don't have a barbell or actually training?

I spent a lot of time making excuses about why I didn't go after my dreams.

I'd go for four or five days, meditating a few minutes each day and then make up excuses about why I was too busy to sit still for ten minutes.

Ask yourself if you're prone to making excuses about why you're overdoing the booze, suggests Poznanovich.

Part of the answer to that involves stripping out all the excuses about a «fabricated» antisemitism issue, media smears, ignorant voters and Blairites etc before looking at what's left — the party's policies, presentation, public image and leadership.

That's all very well, but we're left feeling like Carney said he was going to take us on that mini-break but is now making excuses about being too busy at work.

Miliband: «People are fed up with his excuses about what is happening in the economy.»

Homebirth is in America as Homebirth in America does, yet the Homebirth advocates who are looking at the actually data are making excuses about the worse outcomes as they speculate that it is either due to the high risks births that were included, or because they must have been farther away from the hospital than just 5 minutes, or just ignoring the outcomes data and focusing on the low intervention data.