Sentences with phrase «hard use as an excuse»

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Don't use slip - ups as an excuse to go crazy and sabotage all of your hard work.

But these days I see a lot of people who should be working way harder than they are using stress as an excuse to become unproductive slackers.

They've fallen on hard times and made mistakes, but neither have used those as an excuse.

All of this is another tactic, by Wenger camp to use it as excuse at the end of transfer window that we tried hard to get the right players for Arsenal, but we could get what we were looking for.

He was a great motivation; He gave me new focus; He was just another part of my life that I could have either used as an excuse, or used as a reason to work harder.

Those who prefer permanent one - party government ask us a hard question: won't coalition always be used as an all - purpose excuse by politicians who want to betray their promises to the voters?

To the extent that the Senate Democrats are a more formidable and grown - up - looking team than the one that was repeatedly outsmarted by the geniuses known as The Four Amigos, doesn't it become that much harder to use «chaos» as an excuse for keeping them out of power?

«It was hard for me to sit through this case and come face to face with the person I was a few years ago,» Adam Skelos said, adding, «I've had my struggles in life, but now realize that I can't use them as an excuse for my conduct.»

All this talk about being a hardgainer isn't my favorite thing to talk about though because the reality is that way too many guys (some of who aren't actually hardgainers) use their hardgainer label as a convenient excuse to not pursue their dream physique or to avoid pushing themselves too hard because they've bought into false beliefs such as «building a large, muscular, strong, ripped physique isn't possible for me» etc..

Marjane thinks it's funny that she got the man arrested; her grandmother, repulsed by the fact that Marjane has used her sex — the very thing the government is trying so hard to control — as an excuse, a manipulation, is furious with her.

The beaches are nice enough, but the locals are an insular lot, using the murders as a convenient excuse to give temporary migrant workers a hard time.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

It should also be noted, as Julie Schell advises, that teachers should be careful about «labeling» what they are doing — some students may choose to use this as an excuse («the teacher did this «flipped» thing and it was different and hard!»)

One can always find excuses, such as well - used tires or Rockingham's tight infield corners, but in the end the SLS didn't make the grade in this company because it's really a GT rather than a hard - core sports car.

The article states nowhere that the game is a shit port, or that they even used an excuse of it being hard to develop for as a reason why it could be bad on the PS3.

Here we find the new government using their «mandate» to abolish the carbon tax as an excuse to jettison any progress that has been hard won in Australia in renewables and cleantech industries.

You should not use another lawyer's hard work as a crutch, or an excuse for you to be intellectually lazy — use other lawyers» advice to teach yourself to fish, rather than relying on them to give you fish.

However, as the Washinton Hospital staff already told me your company has a track record of not paying legitimate medical claims, using delay tactics and coming up with pre-existing condition as an excuse — I am not holding my breadth and have brought this to the attention of all regulatory agencies so that Seven Corners and your underwriters Nationwide can not cheat other hard earning individuals.

But don't use editing and reediting as an excuse to delay the start of a job search and the hard work and vulnerability that goes along with it.

I have always had tiny bathrooms where I have lived (suare footage in LA is hard to come by) and have always used that as an excuse to not use thems as an «escape from the world.»