Sentences with phrase «let myself off the hook from»

I have let myself off the hook from the pressure of going outside of my comfort zone to promote my work because my primary goal was always just to finish the book itself.

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But, he went on, «I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly.»

«I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly,» said Comey.

But when that hearing combined with one from another committee, which had not asked for Google or Twitter's participation, Mr. Pichai and Mr. Dorsey were let off the hook, said company officials and congressional aides.

It also lets government officials off the hook from doing the hard work needed to prevent mass casualties from future storms.

ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

Forgiveness was always displayed to me as either the freeing of someone from their transgression — as if they needed me to be saved — or a false show of how gracious I was, that I would let someone off the hook after they'd hurt me.

Sadly, Christianity also lets evildoers off the hook from responsibility for their crimes.

When the man from creative services mentions time and budget constraints, Reggie won't let him off the hook.

He was let off the hook for his first big misstep by an offside call, but Guillermo Ochoa was forced into a couple saves after his second bad turnover, on a close - range shot from Emmanuel Emenike and a 25 - yard blast from Ogenyi Onazi in the 12th minute.

Liverpool are on the verge of being overtaken by their fierce rivals Man United and they are not too far from being caught by city rivals Everton, but the last thing Arsenal must do is to let them off the hook.

USC, meanwhile, has suffered from an acute case of letting teams off the hook in 2012.

I believe you can trace the resurrection of Spurs back to that dreadful day in Oct 2008 when we drew 4 - 4 at THOF; for the first time in an epoch, we let them off the hook, we gave them the belief that it was possible to get something from a lost cause playing against a better team.

Malone would then be unable to control a cross whipped in from the opposite flank by Kachunga - who had dropped onto the relevant flank following Tom Ince's departure - which let Palace off the hook; the Town players were evidently out to not let this cup tie slip away without a fight.

It was agonising for the home side, but Saville, who joined Wolves from Chelsea in 2014, had let his old club off the hook.

The only thing missing was a telling final ball: despite more hard running from Origi, Mané, and Wijnaldum, some poor decision - making in the final third let West Ham off the hook.

what a joke!how can we go from absolutely dominating one half to complete self destruction in the second?watching us in the first half I would have said no team in the league could have lived with us, never mind bloody Tottenham!second half were shocking.what was bales goal all about?a hoof over the top and our defence all taken out in one go.the second was an even bigger farce.why the hell couldn't cesc just head the thing.we should have been out of sight by then.what kind of striker is chamakh?what is his problem.twice he was played clean through and he had no intention of going for goal.work rate is all well and good and being able to put it in from 3 yards but if he is going to lead the line he needs to have a proper strikers instinct.sure enough if we give away enough stupid free kicks then the opposition will score because we cant defend and thats exactly what happened.we'll be winning nothing unless we buy some players with spines and balls.getting beat to 2 newly promoted teams and spurs at home.way to let chelsea off the hook fellas.what did wenger say yesterday...» best squad ive ever had....

And, she notes, «increasing support for pregnant women regardless of the pregnancy's outcome will, over time, change abortion from a form of birth control that lets men off the hook into something both parties are invested in preventing.»

Controversial Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Noach Dear has been removed from a lower court where he had a troubling pattern of letting deadbeats — particularly members of his own Orthodox Jewish community — off the hook.

«The other thing that I guess the Sanders supporters would say is, «you know, he comes from a rural state with widespread gun ownership»... So is it not fair to let Bernie Sanders off the hook in that way?»

I don't buy the idea that we should let Gordon off the hook because we prefer him as Labour leader to anyone else - who, exactly, from their bunch of nonentities?

He also has insisted that any settlement should not let banks off the hook from the threat of future lawsuits.

«This would inappropriately let lawmakers off the hook from a pledge they made to the voters of New York,» Dadey said.

Control boards, like the one appointed to oversee New York City's finances in the mid-1970s, take power from elected officials, are at odds with democratic accountability and often let banks and creditors off the hook with unfairly favorable terms.

A new paper from the lab of E. John Wherry, PhD, a professor of Microbiology and Director of the Institute for Immunology, in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, seems to — at least partially — let PD - 1 off the hook.

That being said, Anderson can be accused of being a little stereotypical in his depiction of the Japanese characters, verging on being offensive, just let off the hook given the title's overriding, playful approach which detracts from the more questionable elements.

This isn't a murder mystery or a procedural or even a revenge thriller, which may frustrate audiences when the ending comes, but let them be frustrated because it's the perfect ending to a story that never lets anyone off the hook too easily, leaves characters asking themselves what to do from there, and holds no easy resolutions, just a tinge of hope that things need to get better, no matter if they go through with their final decision or not.

The movie unfolds entirely across computer and cell phone screens, but don't be turned off if you saw 2014's Unfriended and weren't impressed — Searching takes the form to a whole new level and delivers a mysterious, compelling story that hooks you from the opening seconds and doesn't let go.

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).

Few senators seem concerned with the fact that the administration's gambit takes away real data on school performance (making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work), and lets states and mediocre districts off the hook for poorly educating black, Latino, Native and poor white and Asian kids in their care.

«Believing war is beyond words is an abrogation of responsibility — it lets civilians off the hook from trying to understand, and veterans off the hoo

«We are seeing a lot of effort from consumer advocacy groups and federal institutions meant to protect consumers stepping up and doing their job, which is to not letting Equifax off the hook for this,» Woodruff said.

Owners of medium breed dogs probably have the widest array of kibble formulas to choose from but that doesn't let you off the hook when sourcing a quality food.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspeoff more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspeOff the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

EA's removal of loot boxes from Star Wars: Battlefront 2 was timed impeccably as the publisher has been let off the hook by the Belgian Minister of Justice Koen Geens.

This «tax swap» approach is more likely to generate emission reductions from industrial sectors because it keeps the price signal in place, compared to an exemption approach that mostly lets EITEs off the hook.

The country's international donors have so far let the government off the hook on this issue and should do more to pressure Congolese authorities to take soldiers out of the mines and away from the mineral trade.

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It has been suggested that signing such a petition is too easy from the signers» point of view too — it lets the signers off the hook from any serious commitment: they just sign and consider their activism done.

The LPP was set up to let the law schools off the hook for bloating up in size and then virtually never failing anyone (lest grant and tuition money go a-glimmering) and the government off the hook for its negligent misallocation of scarce education resources and the Law Society off the hook from having to be the bad guy and flunk people at the bar exam stage and off the hook for having made a very bad decision to reduce articling from 12 months to 10.

In that sense, there is a clear pragmatism to Staff's framing of the case, since Staff have narrowed their focus to the four named individuals (three of whom are Canadian citizens), and are apparently willing to let the mystery group of foreign nationals — who benefitted the most from the alleged illicit scheme — off the hook.

It does not let the at - fault driver off the hook; your insurance company will have the option of trying to collect damages from the delinquent motorist.

Neglecting to purchase a minimum policy does not let the at - fault driver off the hook for any damages they cause, but it can be exceedingly difficult to collect for damages from these delinquent drivers.

«To prevent Congress from letting Facebook off the hook, outraged Americans need to keep up the heat.»