Sentences with phrase «means let them off the hook»

This doesn't mean we let them off the hook.

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.

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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.»

Though the use of «enemy» in the Old Testament often did refer to a nation - state enemy of Israel, Jesus» exhortation was never meant to refer to a public enemy — like another nation's military force — that would let me off the hook.

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.

Steve Caulker, Jermain Defoe and Clint Dempsey all saw strikes ruled out and that meant that Lazio were well and truly let off the hook as they returned to Italy with a point.

But that doesn't mean we should let corporations off the hook entirely.

Let's give our men a better understanding of what their new relationship with breasts will be about: choosing to breastfeed doesn't mean your partner is totally off the hook.

To decide a group is crazy all too often lets Political Risk Analysts off the hook, as such a characterisation implicitly means that analysis is simply impossible, as the group in question is not sane enough for rational analysis — the kind capable of being studied and assessed — to be made.

I'm not letting the State off the hook by any means, but every time I read a story like this I have to wonder — where are the families?

«That was a mistake because it meant that at a critical time in our country's history the Government was let off the hook,» he told Radio 4's Today programme.

This doesn't mean Cameron is letting her mom off the hook for her support of Trump, but it does help take the edge off the deeply personal, painful aspects here.

It means the film settles into a rote system of showing the title characters doing something ostensibly bad or aggressive, and then letting them off the hook because of some random episode in the past.

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This means that nearly all states are lowering expectations and inflating their proficiency rates; it also means that they are also lying to families and children while letting districts and other school operators off the hook for providing low - quality education.

Considering that nearly all suspensions are meted out for minor issues such as disruptive behavior (and not because of acts of violence, drug abuse, or weapons possession), this almost always means that black children are being dealt harshly by adults in situations in which white peers are let off the hook.

I won't deny Amazon has pushed the industry to become much more open to indies, and has empowered us by giving power to independent authors and publishers where there was little before, but that doesn't mean we should let Amazon off the hook with nearly anything.

«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.

Even if your divorce decree assigns responsibility for a joint liability (i.e., a joint auto loan) to your now ex-spouse, that does not mean the creditor will let you off the hook.

Does that mean I'm going to let Heartland off the hook?

That may mean that some of the highest estimates of future temperature rises, of more than 6C within several decades, are less likely, but it does not let the world off the hook — warming of more than 2C is still highly likely on current high emissions trends, and that would cause severe consequences around the world.

Does this mean he's happy to let all thosedenialists who didn't get paid in advance off - the - hook?

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And it doesn't mean letting the other person off the hook or condoning their behavior.

This means that you and the company can let each other off the hook, if both of you agree.

Of course, that doesn't mean your estate itself will be let off the hook.

That means that Arizona lets you get off the hook just by taking a driver's education course.

Of course, people who buy things to bring them status are some of the saddest and most deplorable humans around — and I don't mean to let them off the hook.

This doesn't mean you can let yourself off the hook, but you don't need to carry buckets of guilt for the rest of your life.