Sentences with phrase «number of excuses»

I made any number of excuses for him.

But there's still that 10 % of funds (bad actors) who use any number of excuses for putting captive lawyers in the counsel seat.

Pet owners who are intent on not spaying and neutering their pets can come up with any number of excuses, some of which we have already covered above.

The second is one that's typically followed by any number of excuses: «I wish I could help, but...»

or any number of excuses.

But watch out for the fine print, which can give the store any number of excuses to deny the return.

Certainly, I have any number of excuses to say, «I am a life - long learner as I have my dual roles.»

We have a number of words for it, and an equally plentiful number of excuses for doing it.

Jeremy Nicholson M.S.W., Ph.D. (aka The Attraction Doctor), points out that if someone is making a number of excuses to touch you, or be touched by you, it's a really strong signal that they enjoy your company.

When I press for the reason H&M is not on their shopping list, I hear a number of excuses: the store is too messy, I'm not young enough, it's not good enough quality, it's too trendy for me, etc..

Although I think if I put my mind to it, I can come up with any number of excuses.

After completely healing myself of a 10 - year struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I've realized recently that I'm still holding on to a number of excuses that I told myself when I was at my most sick in order to protect myself and my health.

The number of excuses that he makes, the failure to learn lessons.

A taste SO luxurious it redefines sweet temptation — and the number of excuses you need to justify another bite.

The number of excuses they have are endless.

Ideally the schools should have floating holidays and allow every child X number of excused absences.

Not exact matches

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

There are a number of reasons why people excuse themselves from physical activity.

It's partly why a growing number of ad agencies and tech startups are instituting «formal Fridays» — and it's a damn fine excuse for options brokers, or anyone else, to show up to work this Friday with carefully knotted ties.

«In this day and age, there really is no excuse for a number of grammatical errors,» says executive recruiter Hargett.

actually there are approximately 36.3 million people — including 13 million children — that live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger... that is far too many people please do not use your blasphemy of the atheists / non-believers as an excuse for this especially given the number of innocent children involved

= > I am not aware of anyone arguing the numbers only excuses to justify existence

I'm appalled at the number of priest who have been outed for sure, there simply isn't an excuse for this EVER.

I personally think the second number is slightly higher than the first — people who would be violent anyway, use religion as their excuse — God told them to kill gays, or abortion doctors, or people of another religion, or atheists or whatever.

The US military has killed a number of journalists, often with the flimsiest of excuses.

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

For example if exorcism was illegal and you caught me beating my neighbor with a copy of the Egyptian book of the dead while covering them in chicken blood I could always get away with it under the excuse that it was an adult adventure, a skin care regime, performance art or any number of things.

the vast numbers of people killed were victims of their own countrymen, who welcomed an excuse to perpetrate an act that they obviously already wanted to do.

For instance, «such a crowd gathered that there was no room left even in front of the door» (Mk 2); «There would have been no hope left for any human creature, if the number of those days had not been cut short» (Mt 24); «These must stay on board, or there is no hope left for you» Acts 27; «if you can see your neighbour's faults, no excuse is left you» (Rom 2).

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

The Court conceded there was a compelling state interest in providing contraception; however, because the ACA has a number of exemptions and accommodations, most notably excusing non-profit religious organizations from the contraception mandate, forcing the plaintiffs to provide contraception coverage was not the least restrictive means to further the compelling interest, i.e. the HHS could have allowed the plaintiffs the same accommodations available for non-profit religious organizations.

«We have worked very hard, but thanks to my team, we've been able to have a positive number of sales year after year, so we don't have an excuse not to grow.

With fall comes many of my favorite things: the turning colors of the trees, cool canyon runs, sweater weather, an excuse to buy new leather boots, and cooking an outrageous number of pumpkin recipes.

There are a number of answers to that question, says Steve Dietz — none of which amount to terribly good excuses for our wasteful nation.

Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead of us.We can no longer use injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.

Morata's goal numbers aren't much better, but he's excuses of injury and league - newness, that Lukaku doesn't.

Now I just want the 4th place junkies on this site to OD... can stand any more of their pathetic analysis silly numbers and lame excuses... they are an insult to the arsenal fan base...

And now, for too many seasons in a row he fails to identify and procure the required quality and numbers in depth to mount a serious challenge for the league under a blanket of excuses.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

Kudos for the «anecdotal exception» bit to excuse the enormous number of times your model is quantifiably wrong

Some of the fans are just as bad for excusing this with a number of different excuses

Also interesting to note that Clinton / Newton have both given the exact same number of plausible excuses about Benghazi.

If they watch a team play and they look like a tourney team, the rest of the numbers are just about finding an excuse to get you in.

The French boss clearly favours a number of stars despite a number of lacklustre performances, although excuses can be made on occasion, but with a change in management a possibility in the close - season, some of those players may not get those same allowances under a new guard.

Can we stop complaining abt dis Six defender Ish... Is not like the entire 6 defenders will be playing at the same time... Was that not the same number of defenders we used last season??? Why using six defenders as an excuse??? We are Arsenal, and will only get better... #coyg

It may have been a tired and fatigued performance from City, but there were no excuses after Liverpool rested a number of their best players, including Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge.

As Paul commented over on our site, «what's certain is that we can't use lack of numbers as an excuse if our season implodes from here».

Most likely for the same reason that urban educators from an earlier generation made excuses: successfully educating large numbers of low - income kids is very, very hard.»

«There is no excuse for any number of heat stroke deaths since they are all preventable with proper precautions,» writes Frederick O. Mueller, Ph.D., Chairman, American Football Coaches Committee on Football Injuries, and Director of the Center.»

I know a good number of people out there are brash - harsh - blunt - snappy but sometimes I find those to be excuses for them just being an ass.