Sentences with phrase «let you off the hook completely»

To be clear, property tax exemptions don't let you off the hook completely.

Not exact matches

In his own statement Wednesday, Schneiderman said he «will enforce and defend the new law,» but he isn't letting DraftKings and FanDuel off the hook completely.

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.

The IRS has chickened out before in political cases, notably letting the Church of Scientology completely off the hook in its investigation of that group.

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.

Most of Garcia's criticism was levied at the Democrats, (he didn't mention Spitzer, but did make reference to former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, for example), although he didn't let his fellow Republicans off the hook completely, saying: «We know all too well, the headlines have reached into both sides of the aisle.»

I don't think the article gives anywhere near enough information to be able to judge whether WCAT made a positive or negative difference, but it definitely does ignore the main culprits — letting the Foundation and the LEA completely off the hook.