Sentences with phrase «flimsy excuses»

Mr. John Kumah made the assertion while responding to comments by the Executive Secretary of the PPP, Richard Nii Armah, that the Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Nana Addo, is just making flimsy excuses for not attending the presidential candidates» debate organised by the National Commission Civic Education (NCCE).

So stop giving flimsy excuses, stop waiting for the perfect partner; stop sitting on your ideas.

And stop benching the Gunners he should be starting on flimsy excuse like Lacazette, Mustafi and Kolasinac whom he benched in the Liverpool game that we lost badly.

It is no more news that since the inception of this administration, some of your elected political office holders, especially the Chairmen have been removed by Executive fiat for very flimsy excuse; your chosen councillors were tagged illiterate and area boys and that they do not deserve commensurate remunerations.

There have been some pretty flimsy excuses doing the rounds and some of these are as follows:

Atheists will always latch on to whatever flimsy excuse they can come up with at the spur of the moment to support their own desire to continue to be their own little emperor of their own little fragile life.

«And this has been going on for two full weeks now and unfortunately, government is feeling comfortable and justifying its strategy by pulling down several of the fuel stations for flimsy excuse which not a few have interpreted as mere political vendetta and mere braggadocio on the part of the government.

Maybe Ridley can show Nicholson how a screenwriter truly engaged and respectful of his subject can create great work that doesn't need to hide behind flimsy excuses.

He said, «You know that they have been using security agencies to harass our people, even till last night, trying to arrest them and detain them on very flimsy excuses.

That seems like a pretty flimsy excuse to me, but for now the automaker remains a partner in name only.

He or she may be flattered by the amount of respect you have and be more forgiving than if you left without explanation or made up a flimsy excuse.

That one touts canyon - deep discounts pegged to the end of daylight saving time — a flimsy excuse for a shopping event if ever there was one.

This flimsy excuse is of course nonsense.

I don't want any of those flimsy excuses like «If only we had a world - class stiker; if only we had another defensive midfielder as good as or better than Coquelin, if only Gabriel had played often instead of Per or if only we had gotten someone better as a central back.»

So last February's mob attack led by Anthony Karbo, the National Youth Organizer of the NPP on Asempa FM, over a flimsy excuse that their Hopeson Adorye, an agent on the show, was prevented from responding to the comments made about Nana Addo was merely a cloak for something that had long been plotted for execution.

There will never be a subject of public interest for whom one can not construct a flimsy excuse for hysterical sermonising and playground laughter.

«Even if they said they already had plans to fix the facility, why pull it down because of some flimsy excuses?

«Even if Silver's flimsy excuse is true, he bears ultimate responsibility for creating a work environment where sexual harassment charges were tossed aside.

Gov. Cuomo — who gave the flimsy excuse of living outside the Big Apple for not supporting Mayor de Blasio's primary re-election bid — backed two more City Council Democrats running in primaries Tuesday.

Did he consider for a moment that such a flimsy excuse would offer a protective shield?»

Fayose said the flimsy excuse that the Easter break stalled this week's FEC meeting was not tenable.

Gov. Cuomo — who gave the flimsy excuse of living outside the Big Apple for not supporting Mayor de Blasio's primary re-election bid — backed two more City Council Democrats...

Lots of people like to think of sex as a form of exercise or at least a flimsy excuse to avoid exercising.

The big caper at the center of it all, something involving stolen microprocessors and the Chinese, is little more than a flimsy excuse for DiCaprio et.

Megamind unoriginally riffs upon the superhero and supervillain archetypes under the flimsy excuse of offering «commentary.»

Brian is there to talk the hereditary king of Hawaii (actually hereditary king of Hawaii Dennis «Bumpy» Kanahele) into authorizing a blessing ritual for the Air Force, a flimsy excuse even in filmland.

This supposedly provides the film sufficient moral cover for Bob and Terry's actions, but it nevertheless reads as a flimsy excuse on McDonagh's part to have his cake and eat it too, especially since it arrives in the last 20 minutes.

But you are also stuck with an underdeveloped script, an unoriginal storyline, and predicable villains with no depth, no common sense, and the flimsiest excuses for double crossing ever to be caught on film.

It's a flimsy excuse for a plot, with characters who move below the one - dimensional and enter Flatland.

But this is a flimsy excuse because many competitors already have them in similar vehicles.

Why don't you direct your ire at the folks that think their animal is a disposable item, and dump them with the flimsiest excuses instead of denigrating good folks???

This is nothing less than a declaration of war on feral cats, scared dogs, or any animal that found themselves scared and confused upon being brought into the chaotic shelter environment — or any animal they simply wanted to find a flimsy excuse to kill.

This feature has been removed from the Wii port apparently due to the switch from a high overhead perspective to a closer Resident Evil 4 style one — a flimsy excuse if ever there was one.

Now I'm a Software Developer in my day job who is happy to be a part of the Gaming Nexus team so I can have at least a flimsy excuse for my wife as to why I need to get those 15 more minutes of game time in...

It reminds me of how Nintendo didn't go online with the Gamecube because of the flimsiest excuse about not enough people having broadband or some shit only to go WIRELESS ONLY on the Wii when wireless was not as common at that point as broadband was when the Cube was current.

The story is only a flimsy excuse to get to the «action».

Allegories are notoriously difficult to paint, and often seem no more than the flimsiest excuse for a picture, but with Watts this was never the case, and in his best work subject and form have an inevitable unity.

And Nebraska fraud investigators could have been talking about AGW scammers when they said: «As the scheme begins to collapse, victims are given a constant stream of flimsy excuses, double - talk or no response at all, while the operators of the schemes are pulling out and disappearing with others» hard - earned money, or reinventing themselves under a new name — as Marsden did several times before his arrest.»