Sentences with phrase «let off the hook for»

But that doesn't mean he be let off the hook for humanizing a well - documented xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic serial liar, which is exactly what he did on Thursday.»

It also lets them off the hook for repaying the money if a product fails.

They have invented this thing they call «evangelism», which somehow lets them off the hook for loving people, especially those they don't know, the unlovely, the poor, the stinky.

We choose to pay taxes to fund our collective efforts by electing governments who impose and spend them the way we want — not that it let's us off the hook for our individual actions, or what we do as the church.

Name ONE «moral absolute» that is / was shared by ALL religious faiths throughout all of recorded history (I'll let you off the hook for prehistory since I will assume you don't believe such a thing existed).

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.

If Noah wants to play for another team, it's possible they could negotiate an extremely expensive buyout where Noah lets them off the hook for a portion of the money — but it doesn't seem like he's inclined to do that.

we're just not letting them off the hook for individual responsibility.

Please give yourself permission to feel it, then let yourself off the hook for it.

Would you let them off the hook for concealing the fact that they knew that Vioxx caused preventable deaths?

It would be great if I could finally let myself off the hook for what I have always seen as my (early) failures as a mother, despite my devotedness to him...

Here's why it's okay to let yourself off the hook for not having more kids!

Lastly, the marine mega-park movement does not let us off the hook for protecting crucial marine habitats at smaller scales.

I acknowledge how far I've come, without letting myself off the hook for the areas I still need to improve.

And does the audience — us — deserve to be morally let off the hook for enjoying someone else's ineptitude?

That show didn't let him off the hook for his unspeakable crimes, but it did attempt to graft a bit of humanity onto him.

That ribbing often seems to me cheaply self - exonerating, a case of the filmmakers letting themselves off the hook for the goofiness of these stories — for their failure to sell us the most outlandish elements.

And traditional districts would essentially be let off the hook for failing to provide high - quality teaching and curricula to poor and minority students.

More importantly, setting high levels of growth doesn't matter if districts are being let off the hook for ensuring that all students get a high - quality education.

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

He stopped responding to my comments when I wouldn't let him off the hook for pleading ignorance on antitrust law.

And that's because the lender wants to make absolutely certain that they're justified in their decision to award a short sale and let you off the hook for that remaining balance.

In fact, markets being what they are, the company might even have to pay a hefty and unintentionally punitive premium to get so many offsets so quickly, and that would by no means let them off the hook for the damages inflicted on those 2,300 families or anything else they may be liable for.

Four refineries — three of them next to Wilmington — bought most of the pollution credits, which let them off the hook for installing pollution control equipment and created a hot spot, according to a 1999 report.

But the West recoiled at the suggestion even though it let us off the hook for post-Industrial Revolution emissions.

Automakers have asked to be let off the hook for fuel economy regulations that take effect between 2022 and 2025, and it appears the President plans to do just that.

If you did not, no problem there either — just don't come looking to him for a hug or an apology, or for him to let you off the hook for being wrong or acting wrong.

In general, if you decide to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, creditors are still able to proceed with collection efforts against your co-signers-even if you were let off the hook for the debt.

OTTAWA — A partner will not be let off the hook for alimony payments to a former spouse unless there have been major changes to their financial situation, the country's top court has ruled.

If you co-sign for a vehicle with your ex, the lender has no legal obligation to let you off the hook for the loan simply because you're divorcing.

Not exact matches

The banking system was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.

Musk isn't letting anyone off the hook for hitting the target — nor is he accepting excuses without a plan for addressing them.

What she found was faddish advice, rampant conflicts of interest, and a Horatio Alger narrative that holds individuals completely responsible for their own failings and lets crooks conveniently off the hook.

«Mick Mulvaney is letting predatory payday lenders off the hook while they rip off American consumers,» Diane Standaert, executive vice president for the consumer watchdog group, said in a statement.

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.

The fact that Prentice let the corporate sector off the hook and the corporate sector, as represented by the Monopoly Men, had a meltdown at the suggestion they should pay 2 points more in taxes convinced us that the business sector had been coddled for far too long.

For even though the results of this claiming often accrue to the advantage of better - off blacks, and in no way constitute a solution to the problems of the poor, the desperate plight of the poorest makes it unthinkable that whites could ever be «let off the hook» by relinquishing the historically based claims» that is, by a broad acceptance within the black community of the notion that individual blacks bear personal responsibility for their faFor even though the results of this claiming often accrue to the advantage of better - off blacks, and in no way constitute a solution to the problems of the poor, the desperate plight of the poorest makes it unthinkable that whites could ever be «let off the hook» by relinquishing the historically based claims» that is, by a broad acceptance within the black community of the notion that individual blacks bear personal responsibility for their fafor their fate.

He did... about cheating on his wife... she never let him off the hook... he committed suicide convinced by her, he was bound for hell.

Do we continue to let people off the hook for their behavior?

At the same time, he refused to let the church off the hook for the part he accuses it of playing in tacitly condoning the bullying of LGBT youth.

Sin - stained and deceived hearts are not so keen to let God «off the hook» so to speak for the perceived notion he is trying to exonerate himself in the process.

I love the United States, and there's no country where I'd rather live; but just as we don't let our children off the hook for bad thinking, selfish behavior or unreconciled wrongs simply because we love them or think they are better behaved than other children, we should not ignore wrongs within our society.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

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?

As pastors, letting ourselves off the hook by appealing to our sympathy for people's fragility and limits robs us of some of our most rewarding opportunities to confirm our ministry in a church that really looks like a church rather than a social club.

They excommunicated a nun named Margret McBride for permitting an abortion, yet they let the mass murderer of 10 million plus off the hook.

Although this does not at all fit with either a clear Greek concept of a Supreme Being nor with a nursery need for security, it may be the terrible truth, one that lets God off the hook of our unforgiving resentments.

David discovered this principle and this was probably why God let him off the hook and did not have him stoned to death for adultery and murder like the law required: because David was humble and repented (even though Achan and plenty of other people repented and God still punished them, and this has nothing to do with the fact that David was king and probably would not have commanded his own stoning to keep the law even though he wrote Psalm 119 which is all about how much he loved keeping every commandment in the law).

The author is pleased that doubting Thomas didn't let any of the disciples off the hook, for they still had a job to do.

But you need to let God totally off the hook for allowing what he did.