Sentences with phrase «many convenient excuses»

It's a convenient excuse.

Because they were always a minority population wherever they lived, the dominant polity found them a convenient excuse for whatever went wrong — crop failure, the plague, drought, flooding, excessive cold temperatures, excessive warm temperatures, defeat of the army by an enemy.

Or is it just a convenient excuse for self - righteous hatred of those that have faith, that tries to appear correct and enlightened?

And you must admit, it is a very convenient excuse to pretend the Bible doesn't say what it says.

What a convenient excuse for not holding on to Gods commandments.

It has provided a convenient excuse for childish atheism and shattered many aspects of human community and family life.

Both forms of denying our embodiment in this world provide convenient excuses for ignoring the needs of others as individuals are allowed to focus solely on their own personal spiritual needs.»

Looking ahead to Absalom's arrogant rebellion against his father, so soon to follow, we wonder if this is not also, and perhaps chiefly, a convenient excuse for removing the king's oldest son Amnon, who might have proved an obstacle to Absalom's own consuming ambition.

Yes, Jesus a Liberal... and Ken you are a frightened human being... let it go... I'm not pushing anything on anyone... Christ loves everyone... man was made in God's image so deal with it... and me2 you and I both know it was the conservatives who wanted slavery... Abe Lincoln would be sickened by what has happened to his party... he was a man who stood on principle and believed in good for the common man... way different than the party you are tied to... Price... I agree with you in that there are many good Christians... unfortunately, there are many who are very ignorant and use Christ / God as a convenient excuse to denounce what they don't accept...

In reflecting on the power of the will as it relates to the concept of the unconscious, Rank observed: «It is astonishing how much the patient knows and how little is unconscious if one does not give him this convenient excuse for refusing responsibility.»

It's just a convenient excuse people use to be a petulant jerk.

On the other hand, we have seen some awful games from the Gunners before which have not been at the end of a transfer window, so do you accept Wenger's explanation or is it just a convenient excuse?

Cazorla is just an convenient excuse.

It didn't, it's a convenient excuse.

Winston Reid is suspended and injured although the latter might just be a convenient excuse to avoid travelling down under for two World Cup fixtures against New Caledonia.

I was under the impression that the baby friendly designation was a convenient excuse to reduce costs by closing the well baby nursery.

So I'll use that as my convenient excuse for potentially creating some confusion this morning with my... [Continue reading]

He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.

«Competitiveness» can be used as a convenient excuse for opposing popular tax rises on high earners, while presenting the right as sensible pragmatists and the left as unrealistic ideologues.

The «Buffer zone» isn't primary among their reasons, but it's a convenient excuse.

It's a convenient excuse to claim «national security interests» to cover up wrong - doing.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

The Republican's obsession with debt (or maybe that's just a convenient excuse) has them calling for more and bigger cuts in government spending.

That's a convenient excuse for doing nothing!

Fellow Tory Jacob Rees - Mogg, a member of the Commons Treasury Select Committee, said the Chancellor had found a «convenient excuse».

The further cuts to NSF - mandated science observations that would likely be required to fulfill a Breakthrough Listen partnership could consequently provide the NSF with a convenient excuse to justify divestment.

This is especially important when dealing with a child on the GAPS diet, which also offers a convenient excuse to your critics — few dare put down a parent for trying to help their child heal from physical or mental ailments.

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..

After a bit of digging, we found that the truth was that she was actually scared to get up on stage, and so was using her weight as a convenient excuse to not give the talk.

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 always easy to explain the reasons for a flops, and I can't conjure a convenient excuse for Little Nicky.

Simply using health and safety as a convenient excuse is misleading and unhelpful».

I continue to believe, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, that poverty, though a real challenge, has been used as a convenient excuse by too many educators; an excuse not to improve, not to seek changes in school organization and instructional techniques, not to raise expectations.

CABE's own school board training program indeeds show compelling data about poverty being a convenient excuse for the professionals in schools not having the range and depth within their professinal repertoire to educate poor children.

Meanwhile, CABE's own school board training program indeed presents other compelling data from national research about poverty being a convenient excuse for the professionals in schools not having the range and depth within their professional repertoire to educate poor children.

«While «health and safety» may be used as a convenient excuse for avoiding practicals and work outside the classroom, we consider that there are more fundamental reasons why many students are receiving poor practical science experiences during their school education.»

In a sense, I think the drought became a convenient excuse since it was the source of such despair for so many of the residents and became an easy explanation for what would motivate someone to perform such terrible acts.

Most likely, nobody believed that fiction, but it made for a convenient excuse when pouring over the adventures of «Lady S --» and «Lord T --».

I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up ebook prices, which they've always wanted to do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about what ebook buyers are willing to pay.

• Blaming forthcoming regulations for breeders is a convenient excuse for closure.

Furthermore, owners may rationalize their negligence by citing any one of the pack of convenient excuses listed above.

If I had a yard it would be nothing more than a convenient excuse for me to dump him in it and not deal with the problem.

The next day was a wash, giving me a convenient excuse to get further caught up on work.

Fire effects are outstanding, and the game's space - hopping plot makes a convenient excuse for creating a number of unique alien worlds for Dalton to fight in.

Another is our ability to be energized by that urgency, rather than paralyzed by nihilistic despair — whether real, or feigned as a convenient excuse for inaction.

Why, or when rather, aside from convenient excuses accomodating lame reasons like no effective tranquilizers or appropriate relocation options, are we going to start extending our human hand in kindness and empathy by helping rather than killing.

You can continue pick out these points in isolation and seem plausible and then use the convenient excuse to ignore the recommendations in the theses fields, when they donâ $ ™ t suit your ideological agenda, even though their stance is backed up by those qualified in that relevant field (like the link above).

And it also gives a convenient excuse for using the model to extend the available data to avoid end effects when filtering.

Climate skeptics said that insurance companies had merely found it a convenient excuse to hike premiums.

I stand by my earlier assertion that the «hide the decline» meme has become a convenient excuse for dismissing all of climate science.