Sentences with phrase «old excuses for»

Your old excuses for not getting in shape won't work.

Great product... the cyber attack is getting to be an old excuse for those of us (and our dogs especially) who rely on this product!

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By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

Learning new things is most productive with an OPEN MIND and not one looking for EXCUSES for contradictions and errors in a 2,000 - year - old book.

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

Under the old covenant there was no holy spirit in man to help them obey but for believers today there is no excuse cause we have the empowering of the holy spirit to help us today to be obedient Revelation 22:14 (Bless are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city obedience is the key.

Yet there can be no excuse for that preacher's failure to do all that is in his or her power to bring men and women to «ripeness» in Christ, as the old Ordinal phrased it, and thus to be brought into a way of living which is both enabled and enriched.

The pitiful excuses for miracles today only highlight how pointless those old stories are.

Yes, because it is relatively simple reconciling the peaceful, loving person of Jesus with the god of the old testament that orders the massacre of entire towns including women and children OR, the Israelites back in the day were using god (once again, just as recent events are showing...) as an excuse for mayhem and territorial takeover.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

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.

What Christianity does is not to supply a man with an excuse comfortably to live the old life; it supplies him with a dynamic for the new life.

Some anti-circumcision groups, however, say the lawsuit's argument for religious liberty is just an excuse to defend old tradition that some frown upon as strange compared with mainstream hospital circumcisions.

Saying thank you, please, excuse me makes you welcome everywhere you roam You'll appreciate my wisdom someday when you're older and you're grown Can't wait till you have a couple little children of your own You'll thank me for the counsel I gave you so willingly But right now I thank you not to roll your eyes at me Close your mouth when you chew, would appreciate Take a bite maybe two of the stuff you hate Use your fork, do not burp or I'll set you straight Eat the food I put upon your plate Get an A, get the door, don't get smart with me Get a grip, get in here, I'll count to three Get a job, get a life, get a PHD Get a dose of, «I don't care who started it!

For instance, early Christian apologists couldn't come up with any better excuse for the gospel stories appearing like older stories other than to say the only the newer stories were true and Satan had set up the older ones in advance to throw people oFor instance, early Christian apologists couldn't come up with any better excuse for the gospel stories appearing like older stories other than to say the only the newer stories were true and Satan had set up the older ones in advance to throw people ofor the gospel stories appearing like older stories other than to say the only the newer stories were true and Satan had set up the older ones in advance to throw people off.

I'm waiting for my sister to visit, as an excuse for making the King Arthur, old - fashioned and my fave, Lalee's.

And the 44 - year - old's success has been the perfect excuse for cameramen to point their lenses in the direction of his lovely missus.

All of the losing has conditioned them to understand football, the NFL version, for what it really should be: an excuse to have a blast with your oldest friends on a weekend afternoon.

waiting for last minute buys make the selling club to not have enough time to buy replacements, after more than 20 years as a manager one would think this old man is experienced in such matters but alas, excuses after excuses just to justify the failure to buy

Hey guys search for Vincent Janssen on youtube 21 year old Dutch striker from AZ Alkmaar no excuse for not signing him.

I need a double win in our next two games and not excuses because the window is a provision for competing team to address their various needs but Wenger is busy experiment is old fashioned tactics in a modern day.

It's the same old pace excuse, but yet somehow whatever opposition we face rarely gets in behind... It's funny, it's almost as if him and Kos playing together for so long have developed an understanding together and use the high - line to good effect??

started watching arsenal in 2005 but thus far this has been my most disappointing season, ok other seasons have been disappointing but this one is my worst, arsenal fans have been too patient and forgiving for too long, zero planning for games, lack of proper tactics before and during matches, same old excuses every season, lack of proper transfers, poor replacements for great players who have departed, favouritism of certain players eg ramsey, OG, TW who perform poorly but still play while campbell, coq are benched..

The 35 year old Brazilian star enjoyed a glittering career in Europe and has proven a big success since moving to Mexico but there is simply no excuse for this.

It is unlikely that the 46 - year - old will get too much time to settle in, and it won't be an excuse for long if he isn't able to secure positive results on a regular basis.

Come October 5th at approx 4 pm after the away game at the Chavs when we have been humiliated again Wenger will use the same old excuses, why do the media not ask him about his poor transfer policy and his lack of tactical awareness.time for le fraud at 8m a year to be put into retirement.

Arrogant fool has lost most of the fans with obvious bad tactics, excuses and lack of activity spending fans money (should never be as split as it is now AKB / AOB) the fans is what makes Arsenal, who i may add pay all the big bucks to watch The Arsenal in a fancy stadium that they paid for and what did they get in return... an old delusional stubborn man who runs their club the way he thinks its should be... 200m in the bank and nobody available??

It's not about money and resources, Leicester have disproven that hoary old excuse long used by Arsene the dope to cover up for his repeated mistakes.

i can, t believe that this post had been allowed to be posted on this site!anyone connected with arsenal does know that despite his flaws and he has a few WENGER does what he thinks is best for the club, fans and aslo thinks he is still the right man to lead us something im sure many will disagree with but to go as far as calling him an old man, deluded, a sorry excuse of a manager, calling for him to be booted out of the club and not be allowed near it again is out of order, and also shows how clueless & ignorant you are!!

For someone who has been around for more than twenty years, the Frenchman does not seem to have learned from his mistakes and continues to make the same old excusFor someone who has been around for more than twenty years, the Frenchman does not seem to have learned from his mistakes and continues to make the same old excusfor more than twenty years, the Frenchman does not seem to have learned from his mistakes and continues to make the same old excuses.

Can't wait for us to sign someone like Rubén Castro or someone even more average and old as an excuse that we've tried everything to sign top players.

Hill wood is another deluded old fool who we need to get rid of, the board needs some fresh young blood with a passion for football not for making money or making excuses for Wenger.

Wenger the fraud knows rlly good that most talented players are being watched nowdays from as young as 12 year old, so he should spare us with his excuses and lies coz such things he can only tell to his die hard wengerits who would mistake even trashcan for a striker if Wenger would have said so

Moureeno and Pellegrini came and found team assembled by others, so they could be excused for needing time to adapt to what they find but they assessed the problems and solve them as soon as possible.Your old idol of a coach supported by a greedy ignorant board leaving him all the power just want to win on the cheap.Guess what, that not possible, you can not pay peanuts and get quality players and hope to win trophies with the like of Wilsher, Arteta, Flamini, Monreal and co You bunch of propagandist Wenger sbire will leave Arsenal ship as soon as he leaves or is kick out.

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

those injured are always the same and we will not want to have same old story like Diaby years and years in the waiting and nothing came out of it.those coming back from long injuries should play with the reserves or loan them out to smaller teams in the EPL until they re-discover their mental - physical strength and then get them back but we need 2 platyers (Carvalho as DM and Huntelaar ST) to be able to challenge for the last 4 months the EPL title.If fellow gooners have some names bring them out but we do not have more excuses..

After Match interview: Wenger had no answers just the same old excuses the man has nothing more to offer and if he had any respect for the Arsenal Fan's he would step down as Arsenal manager right away.

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Oh this is classic Wenger, getting his ready made excuses in for the old repetitive post match interview!

Will not be getting my hopes up this transfer window, regardless of what Wenger says, for every quote us fans want to hear, there's a tired old excuse of why he didn't.

Your «old chestnut,» go to excuses for doubting are just as drab as the ones for believing.

This shows wenger's ambition no need to sign required players for CB, DM that's why we lose games and fall to 4th every season and then Old man makes excuses every time we are building a team and win the league in 2 - 3 years because he has just about 2 and half years left on his contract so he decieves and blackmails fans and his aim is to only complete his last 3 year contract by saying he will win league in 3 years but in real he will never ever win he is stubborn and master in making lame excuses..

Stop making excuses for that old bag of bones.

For with the superior intellect that comes from being a follower of Arsenal, I have out - manoeuvred him, putting in all the old excuses using exactly the same words as last time.

Chelsea will only excuse Costa from returning for pre-season if a move to Atletico is agreed or negotiations are advanced, which the 28 - year - old clearly hopes is the case.

While Wenger, of course, denies that Alexis is going anywhere, the «sick» post on Instagram has managed to wind Gooners up, since it sounds as if the 28 - year - old is already trying to line up excuses for not showing up to training this weekend.

My 4 - year old is asking to be excused now and my 2 year old uses his napkin (s) for his own spills... so cute!

We would argue about that often; I told him it wasn't right for me to be over there because I was interfering with their bonding time but his excuse was:» They are older children, they're ok, they do their own thing.»

So come up with some super-polite excuse about why you can't (18 - month molars coming in are a likely story) and then plan another visit for when she's older.