Sentences with phrase «rates as an excuse»

It's also important because some Americans like to point to our supposedly high poverty rate as an excuse for our lackluster international performance on a variety of social indicators, from health - care outcomes to test scores and beyond.

So a lot of people today are using the ultra-low interest rates as an excuse to not worry about their debt level.

Don't use low interest rates as an excuse to borrow more.

I've heard a lot of stories of people simply transferring balances over and over again, or transferring once and using the new lower interest rate as an excuse to get into more debt.

Not exact matches

Now there are many talking heads on the mainstream media saying that due to the outcome of Brexit, the Federal Reserve or specifically Janet Yellen would use it as a perfect excuse to cut rates back to zero.

1) Overpaid players on high salaries 2) Leave selling players at the very end of transfer window 3) Club not knowing what their priorities are during a transfer window by planning beforehand 4) Being too greedy for wanting higher valuation price on average players or selling players bellow their market rate 5) Letting players hold the club to ransom by giving them game time just to make them happy 6) Using the lack of players leaving as an excuse for not signing more players

Exactly, so sick of the stadium debt being used as an excuse, nonsense, around 34 million from day one and still at that rate for some years to come, no debt is cleared, payments are the same!

The bizarre excuses have been made public as part of a # 1.7 million campaign to raise awareness around the increase in the minimum wage coming into force in April that will take the rate up to # 7.50 per hour.

He also pushed the Board of Regents to reverse a proposal allowing educators to use their districts» slow implementation of Common Core as an excuse for poor ratings.

But even the celebrities give the same excuse to avoid the gym or eating healthy as everybody else...» I don't have enough time» Most workouts take up too much time in your day and include too many rest periods that lower your heart rate and consequently slow down your fat burning hormones.

I, Tonya, rated R, neither condemns Harding nor treats her harsh upbringing as an excuse for questionable decisions.

As Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al show, a bunch of charter schools with large achievement test gains, including Boston «no - excuses» schools, Harlem Promise Academy, and KIPP, have produced little or nothing in terms of high school graduation and college - attendance rates.

I had the opportunity to write about this issue in The Times recently, where I focused on recent research that reports how some «high performing charter schools» have disproportionately high suspension rates as a result of some of the «no excuses» philosophy they practice.

Factors such as selective teacher referrals, high attrition rates, and an overrepresentation of girls and siblings mean that the students at no - excuses schools are more capable and determined than poor students generally.

But EL advocates should worry that many states are using this as an excuse to delay development of a system for calculating ELP or for removing the ELP indicator from schools» accountability ratings entirely.

The BASIS charter schools are self - acclaimed «no - excuse» schools, as attrition rates exceed 50 %.

Use them as an excuse to get the debt paid down so that when interest rates go up, it's not an issue.

I believe that my company is conveniently using this as an excuse to avoid having to give back the rate deduction to all of the employees it previously took it from but I can't find any references to this part of the law that I can take to my company's HR department to argue with.

Now there are many talking heads on the mainstream media saying that due to the outcome of Brexit, the Federal Reserve or specifically Janet Yellen would use it as a perfect excuse to cut rates back to zero.

As a person who qualifies for Diamond status on stays, not points, short trips are the perfect excuse to book an eligible rate even if it costs a little more.

Add to this that the characters are actually smart and the whole thing is delivered with perfect tongue - in - cheek timing and I'm almost ready to excuse the drops in frame rate as part of the whole «crappy movie» feeling.

It isnt an excuse but at the same time when xbox live marketplace just started getting popular parents werent as aware of their kids ability to download a full M - rated game.

Now, EDF 2025 has a reputation as a B - grade game, so that's supposed to excuse the shoddy graphics, the frame rate drop off and sound problems throughout.