Sentences with phrase «letting myself off the hook when»

I realized that even I had been letting myself off the hook when it's not convenient.

In other words, Quentin Tarantino in this, his eighth film, doesn't let us off the hook when it comes to our own ethics, either.

As convenient as hiring an influencer is, it doesn't let you off the hook when it comes to promotion.

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.

Let them off the hook when you can't spend time with them because they're knee deep in first year writing assignments.

Most financial institutions tout zero - liability policies that let you off the hook when it comes to unauthorized charges.

Not exact matches

Understand, too, that CEOs are unlikely to let the VP of sales or the director of procurement off the hook when it comes to performing their work.

But in 1982, Congress let the military organization off the hook when it came to dealing with citizens» boneheaded behavior, handing nonemergency calls over to private companies.

«Embracing the failures of employees does not pay your bills and... lets employees off the hook even when they are impacting your bottom line,» agrees Daniel Goldberg, CEO and director of Gold Medical Marketing.

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.

This is what happens when you let others off the hook, regardless of how evil they were, or how hurt you continue to be.

First, we must not be governed by our limited perception of him — supposing that we are qualified to judge him; secondly, we forgive him not because he is guilty, but because we choose to affirm him as he is revealed in the Bible; and thirdly, we must set him free — letting him totally off the hook — until the day arrives when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9 - 11).

When Cardinal Pell interjected that the problem for Dawkins is that he only accepts sense experience as proof, the presenter let Dawkins off the hook and turned the question on the Cardinal, asking: «Why would God randomly decide to provide proof of his existence to a small group of Jews 2,000 years ago and not subsequently provide any proof after that?»

I knew when Bush cited the 1,000 points of light he really meant for people to take over care of the poor to let government i.e. wealthy tax payers off the hook.

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

Remember one time when Porto won it it was Porto Vs Monaco them... We actually let Chelsea off the hook as they beat us on away goals and scored their second at Highbury when we were leading 2 - 1 and had done a 0 - 0 at the bridge and we were looking hot for the trophy not just the semi final slots.

Looking at the final, Cuads was rightly sent off for violent conduct, but the same referee lets Ronaldo off the hook and just have a friendly chat with him when he kicked Dani Alves right in front of him.

Charlie Beljan let Jason Day off the hook when he issued an apology Tuesday for being the one who dropped the f - bomb during Sunday's final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

We were modest when we had leads vs Stoke / Man City, but then let Brighton off the hook in the second half yesterday.

Torres had a chance late on when Filipe Luis put the ball on a plate for him but his header was straight at Serantes, yet again, as Atletico let the hosts off the hook.

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.

While you may be tempted to let your teen off the hook when it comes to chores, it's essential that your teen know how to manage a household.

Let yourself off the hook a little, then start fresh when you're ready.

When I persisted, she noted on my file «patient refused medication» — well, I suppose that lets her «off the hook» and makes it all my responsibility, which is how it should be.

Forcing yourself to eat mindfully when you don't feel like it is counter to the purpose of mindful eating, so get curious and let yourself off the hook.

Wouldn't you love it if you had a personal trainer, a nutrition coach, and someone to just keep you accountable when you want to let yourself off the hook?

Calvin is let off the hook far too many times and any pathos is put in the background to broader humour, such as when Calvin and Ruby visit Calvin's mother in a sequence that feels more like something out of Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach, 2004).

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.

Ramsay has delivered a wild, tactile genre exercise that, even when it thrills, refuses to let its audience off the hook.

The film doesn't let Graham off the hook for being socially cozy with some pretty unsavory people (like Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger), but it captures a moment when, perhaps, some part of her ideology shifted.

When people in New York and nationally call for cutting down or even eliminating accountability, it lets the system off the hook.

This year, when Finch refused to meet his legal obligation and provide an additional $ 3.2 million to meet their minimum budget obligation, Malloy committed to letting Finch off the hook.

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

Recognizing that ignoring the issues and sweeping conversations about money under the rug won't help break the cycle of poverty, she won't let her peers off the hook when it comes to discussing personal finances.

In fact, a high percentage of people, when their debt is paid off, simply find some other payments to make, for no other reason that it lets them off the hook of redefining their identity.

Banks require co-signers because few 18 - year - olds have established credit, so it stands to reason that when a former student is now a gainfully employed adult with good credit that there would be a reasonable way to let parents off the hook.

When we spend our time and money earning miles, but never spend them we're in effect letting the Airlines off the hook for the Awards they've promised us.

- 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

He almost cried when Graham let him off the hook.

International human rights and humanitarian norms do not assess the good guys versus the bad and let the good guys off the hook when they break the law.