Sentences with phrase «of excuses about»

People have a lot of excuses about why they aren't» investing in real estate.

Breeders can come out with a variety of excuses about why they have not had their dogs checked, but since it is not expensive when you consider the price of a puppy, and can cause great distress to you the owner, as well as your dog, do not accept these excuses.

I remember making up lots of excuses about how I was studying a topic that didn't have references in the children's section.

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If nothing else, you need to know when people are mentioning your business, liking it, sharing it and blogging about it.There are plenty of apps out there that do just that so there's no excuse for staying in the dark.

Most of the time other drivers will excuse just about anything if you admit you goofed up.

But none of these legitimate considerations excuse the plain old boorish behaviors or worse that we're reading about today.

While I for one am absolutely thrilled about a reduction in time spent doing laundry (as it continues to feel like a treadmill of tedium today, I can only imagine the hours our grandparents wasted on the task), you could be excused for asking, who really cares?

A lot of people might make excuses about making videos, or publish one video and see that it doesn't do anything and then give up on it.

Conversely, if you manufacture excuses or try to lie your way out of it, you'll feel bad about yourself and the outcome will be less desirable.

I'll go with Jacques - René here: if you don't think the Official Languages Act is good policy, why just not call for its repeal instead of tip - toeing around the issue and making excuses about English Canada's failure to adapt?

In short, the arguments about the difficulties of influencing activity should make central bankers cautious and modest about their role as cyclical stabilisers, but do not excuse them from taking the cycle into account in setting policy, and doing what they can to lop peaks and fill troughs.

You don't have enough money to invest, you don't know anything about the stock market, you are worried about losing money... All of these excuses have likely already cost you thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential earnings over your lifetime.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

I could make excuses about single income, lots of kids or whatever, but the biggest culprit is really overspending.

Another risk that's harder to excuse is a lack of transparency: The ETN's issuer — Goldman Sachs — doesn't provide a working website for investors to access in order to learn more about the mechanics and methodology.

In view of all the things that can be said about a company and the effects that can take place on a share price for many different reasons, there is and will never be any excuse to shy away from the hard work of studying a company in order to find its real intrinsic value.

Articles like this are a dime a dozen with the same tired excuses for why people want church to be about them instead of about God and Jesus and God's Word.

Just because that something is the second brightest object in the night sky and you've probably seen it just about every single night of your entire life is no excuse for not saying something.

Am sick and tired of this talk about the religious and the non religious things being taken as an excuse to squeeze crashing down those nations or countries... innocent peaceful people are the first to pay the price in such conflicts and wars..

as with every other argument about christianity, if it really was only a belief it would be of no consequence, but unfortunately so many use their religious beliefs as an excuse to attempt to demand the rest of the population adhere to their beliefs by codifying them into civil law.

So many religious people whine about «context, context», yet either never give what the context is in their mind, or the «context» is contradictory to other parts of the bible, and it merely turns into excuses and assertions.

Typically this process leads to a characterization of God as a being so advanced, powerful, immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.

It is about a bunch of elittists trying to justify their superiority complex by excluding others with more and more excuses.

They show me first why they embarrass me: because I am committed to a pretense of detached scholarship and existential ambiguity that excuses me from the vigorous demands of wisdom, which is all about deciding what is right and what is wrong.

There still isn't one good excuse about where the water came from or went to and the idea that they had a year's supply of fresh meat for all the carnivores is laugh - out - loud funny.

Thank you, CNN, for giving all of the crazies an excuse to vent about Vatican and the Pope... everyone needs an outlet to spew their hatred, right?

If a man looks at a woman with the intent to have sex with her, or even just cat - calls her, it's because of how * she's * dressed, or how * she * presents herself, and * she's * always the one who is encouraged to do something about it, while the men get a free pass because hormones (or whatever excuse).

Becuase my god doesn't want those who diminish, discriminate against or try to use religion as an excuse to put others down in favor of feeling better about themselves to marry.

That said, I don't think that should give us an excuse to stand aside as a fellow church member is gossiped about, or when a colleague is ostracized or bullied, or any other of the plethora of destructive behaviors.

If Original Excuse comes as a package, so to speak, with Original Sin, he could hardly be naive about expecting mere rhetoric, no matter how brilliant, to uproot the culture of victimhood.

Because to take one's suffering to heart is to be weaned from the temporal order, and from cleverness and from excuses, and from clever men and women and from anecdotes about this and that, in order to find rest in the blessed trustworthiness of the Eternal.

feels like an excuse to laugh at the personality and foolishness of Tommy Wiseau in brand - new ways, but it also humanizes him, establishing a strong central story about a lopsided and perplexing friendship between Tommy and his longtime best friend and filmmaking partner Greg Sestero (played by Franco's real - life brother, Dave Franco).

But sometimes people use religion as the excuse not to deal with violence — praying for god to take care of the violent people, rather than doing something about it themselves.

Of course, being abused as a child does not excuse the one who abuses children when they are adults (and I know you are not saying that), but it does make one wonder about the cycle of sin that happens in people's liveOf course, being abused as a child does not excuse the one who abuses children when they are adults (and I know you are not saying that), but it does make one wonder about the cycle of sin that happens in people's liveof sin that happens in people's lives.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

I had a lot of excuses why I couldn't do it, but I told my Pastor I would pray and think about it.

Feminism was financed by the CIA with the intention of «taxing the other half of the population» and «getting children into pre-school at a younger age so as to indoctrinate them»... there is nothing about «women's rights» involved... that is just the excuse.

I recognize that, for many, the March was primarily a response to the election of a president who has bragged about and been accused of sexual assault; however, JFK and Clinton have also been accused of sexual assault, and while that does not in any way excuse Trump's behavior, it does remind us that his behavior is nothing new.

This are warning that we are given, we should not talk about grace to excuse our self from the will of God.

Stop repeating a lie that excuses your enemies from their carelessness about human life, and that insults the sacrifice of good American soldiers; many of whom died protecting Iraqis civilians.

Yet it was these sorts of people who brought themselves to Jesus; split, contradicting themselves, disgusted and despairing about themselves, hateful of themselves, hostile towards everybody else, afraid of life, burdened with guilt feelings, accusing and excusing themselves, fleeing from others into loneliness, fleeing from themselves.

Instead of offering an excuse, such as mitigating circumstances, or a justification, such as a wrong serving a higher end, people speak about mistakes being made.

The elites then use the provocations of the populists as an excuse to avoid thinking about (or even admitting) their own errors.

The demanding of one God part only proves more and more why you do that.Its not the excuses you rant about no..

I don't know if I agree that the Kingdom of God is about hugs and socks, but if Jeremy is correct let's not use this as an excuse to ignore God when he is asking us to do great and mighty things.

As of Sunday night, Trump still excused his comments in the video as «locker room talk,» which is only true if it is «locker room talk» about sexually assaulting women.

Justin notes that Paul's rhetorical strategy here is to begin by talking about wicked people who had turned from God and gotten caught up in all kinds of sins, only to turn the argument on his readers by declaring, «Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges.

This sufferer must be content with the excuse, «that he 1 is not at the moment in the spirit or the mood to concern himself about the sufferings of others as he himself has troubles.»

Should there be an «individual» who could not feel easy about yielding, and who raised a strong objection to this widespread practice of excusing, alas, we have not yet heard all; for there is always one excuse held in reserve, that lies in wait at his door and demands of him, «What good does it do for a single individual to insist upon opposing this?»

The HYPOCRISY here is that people use the Bible as an EXCUSE when they don't actually believe all of what it says about marriage.