Sentences with phrase «of excuses at»

I know I was out of excuses at that point.

CL is not much of an excuse at this stage of the season.

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That excuse may cut it if you are a seven - time Grammy winner, but for the rest of us, you probably need to at least have a will.

I asked many of these CEOs: did you just use that as an excuse to fire people, and they would wink and say, «let's just leave it at that.»

Done right, diverse slate hiring policies — which require at least one woman or person of colour to be among the candidates considered for a job — remove the easy excuses that cheat the under - represented out of a shot at key roles.

I'd just briefly explain it at the start of the conversation — «I'm dealing with some voice issues; please excuse my voice» or any other wording that you're comfortable with.

I will also begin prepping my work lunches the night before, so I have no excuse to grab a $ 12 salad that I could have made myself at a fraction of the cost.

You need only look to Uber or Wells Fargo to see what happens when you make excuses or turn a blind eye to top performers» actions at the expense of culture.

Do not jump down the prospect's throat, offering a slick line to combat their excuse, when they balk at signing the deal because they, all of a sudden, have no time.

«Total and abject failure here at ATL Airport today,» he tweeted, adding that there was «no excuse for lack of workable redundant power source.

«One of the excuses for not hedging is to say currencies are a diversifier, but saying currencies are a diversifier means you like a currency at any price.»

«Quite frankly, I think that (putting most of the blame on China) is just an excuse,» said Keith Savard, a global economics expert and fellow at the Milken Institute, in an interview Friday.

Phil Levy, a trade expert at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former Bush administration economist, told CNN Money that the Commerce Department's steel and aluminum tariffs are «raw protectionism in search of an excuse» and that the national security excuse is a sort of Pandora's Box on trade protectionism.

I am not looking at excuses, but I know that profound scars were left on me because of my time in residential school.

You could be excused for thinking that one of the basic rules of running a bank is «don't touch customer accounts without customer consent» — but that's exactly what happened at Wells Fargo locations across the country over the past five years.

It's only in the last century that people have tried to make the Bible fit their beliefs rather then align their life with what the bible says, and look at the results, the world is in turmoil and on a downward spiral out of control and this article is a good example of trying to make God's word an excuse to do every wrong thing there is real good reporting.

But then when something doesn't work, you go out of your way to not take it at face value and make «justifications» (aka excuses) for it.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

Ancient Christian so - called persecution at the hands of Romans is also used today as an excuse to persecute others who don't adhere to their beliefs, even by violent means.

Yup that the excuses you have to tell yourself so you can accept where you are at in this world, but the reality is if you could choose to do anything in the world regardless of money or any other limitations you would not be living the life you have now.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: KJV August 21, 2011 at 10:50 am Report abuse Reply

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

It clerly used the word MURDER Such word has been used regarding the killing of Bin laden, with the excuse that because, it is true that he was instrumental in the brutal and inhumane killing of inocent people at the TOWERS, however we must not act in the same way or use the same words that such criminal terrorist use, or we should not act similar as they acted, if we don't want to be looked as wild uncivilized people as they are.

I was amazed at how long they would play the «no seeing the budget game» because of this or that excuse and how many departments or people they were sent to with the outcome: Don't you trust our elders?

Darryl like you i also know that without him i can do nothing i am weak but in him we are overcomers its a good place to be dependent on him he can use us when we are in that place i believe God has plans for you that is why the enemy is playing mind games i had a season of that he does nt bother me now as i fire scripture back at him.Like greater is the lord in me than he that is in the world.Sin shall not have dominion over me.In my weakness i am strong in Christ.Weakness is not an excuse to give in or give up its our opportunity to trust God and walk in his strength and power.You are a mighty man of God you tell the devil to flee in Jesus name and he will.

Many of these theories would seem to excuse, or at least apologise for, human failings.

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).

And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is in existence, the character of its obligation, the possibility of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility of knowing oneself not bound by it in a particular concrete case etc., are of quite a different kind from any case in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.

We must admit to the hypocrisy of condemning divorce while at the same time condoning as «marriage» a relationship that is little more than a cynical armistice, a mutual state of boredom, an arrangement of legalized prostitution, or an excuse for the continued subjugation of women.

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).

As U.S. leaders self - righteously lash out at Saddam Hussein and «Iraqi brutality,» we dare not excuse our own brutal record of naked aggression.

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.

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.

The more our liberal, social - scientific thinking excuses human culpability, the more it points the finger at God, the primal source of our ambiguous existences.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».

Giving the excuse of «oh he was communist» or «he was a believer in a deity» allows us to at least give us the illusion of being able to distance ourselves from what happened.

this is the real face of Iran... and we at the west want to excuse them... this is the real deep «thinking»... if we let it go there way... the have a final solution... CONVERT or die....

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

I don't mean to excuse a lack of critical thinking, not at all, there's a good place for it — in creativity, in writing, in social justice, in community, in marriages, in parenting, all of it — but in all of those arenas, I hope I'm marred by dust and sweat and blood, I hope I dare greatly.

Further, the excuse for his message as presented in this article — that he preaches a watered - down version of Christianity (some would argue that his teaching does not reflect Christianity at all) to attract people to churches — is fundamentally flawed.

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 parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14 recounts the excuses given by those invited: One of them says that he has to go look at his newly bought piece of land; another says that he has to examine his five yoke of oxen.

I think that his actions as President speak more loudly of his «faith» than anything — his excuses for Islamic leadership's failures to condemn extremist behavior while at the same time calling to task marginal Christian leaders for mere words.

Now all of may look at the church now and throughout history and point out abuses that have happened, wars with the excuses being church dogma etc and argue about coming to a more enlightened place with human reasoning.

For those who are not yet convinced of my lunacy, I'd like to finish with a word on the statement that, «Faith has always been used as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity...» I will grant you that at some points in history, humans have used faith «as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity.»

You really don't care at all about gays; you just use this as an excuse to spread your hate of mainstream Americans.

Atheists will always latch on to whatever flimsy excuse they can come up with at the spur of the moment to support their own desire to continue to be their own little emperor of their own little fragile life.