Sentences with phrase «taken as an excuse»

Play the game and take it as an excuse.

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..

Surely we shall not use the suffering of the others whose side we take as an excuse for evading the only way that is open for faith.

Some have taken this as an excuse to do nothing.

I'm not suggesting his performances this pre-season warrant an automatic place, pretty far from it, and please, please, please don't any take this as me excusing not pursuing another forward in any way because I will as livid as any fan out there if we don't nab a class one.

All this being said, this study should not be taken as an excuse to overindulge in white bread, sugary breakfast cereals, and other refined carbs.

Not taking this as an excuse though, Cougar Town never fails to bring the laughs, always aiming for 100 percent.

This feels somewhat inevitable given the inherent difficulty in translating something from the page to the screen, but it can't be taken as an excuse.

Though Kitten's repeated aversion to seriousness could be taken as an excuse for the story's somewhat unfocused fancy, the curiously affecting trip is still well - worth taking.

«Our decision today should... not be taken as excusing the school district's actions, or as condemning Myisha for being a poor student,» Gorsuch wrote.

A second is that school districts should adopt formal policies making it clear that accountability systems and established practices should not be taken as an excuse to short - change students whose families have helped them master basic skills.

No, he could not anticipate every possible crisis, but he did not take that as an excuse for inaction.

Since British Columbia MP Russell Hiebert tabled the union dues disclosure bill, every politician and commentator with an opinion on Canada's unique labour structure has taken it as an excuse to air their views.

Don't take that as an excuse to skimp on prep in other areas, but play to your strengths and you'll stand out.

Not exact matches

You take personal responsibility for your actions and outcomes in every situation, and avoid making excuses when things don't go as planned.

«Lots of folks get cold feet when it comes to taking that needed three - day weekend,» Baer writes before offering common excuses we give ourselves for not taking the time we need to maintain our mental balance — such as fears it will hold back our careers or misguided notions that those with a bit of scheduling flexibility (aka freelancers and entrepreneurs) don't need to take time to themselves in the same way regular employees do.

As in business, entrepreneurs must take a no - excuses policy for their health.

But Vance describes his neighbors using those external forces as an excuse to give up — coworkers who were routinely late to jobs they desperately needed to support their families, and an acquaintance quitting his job because he didn't like getting up early and then taking to Facebook to bemoan the «Obama economy.»

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.

So don't use this tip as an excuse to take on less.

«They are just using this as an excuse to round up people indiscriminately in the hope they can then convince Vietnam to take them back,» said Laboni Hoq, litigation director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Los Angeles.

The markets used that as an excuse to take profits with the Dow off 150 heading into the...

The $ 1.2 trillion high - yield debt market could face a double whammy as spreads tighten and investors use the corporate earnings season starting in the second week of October as an excuse to take even more profits.

«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.»

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

If the US went insane like this anytime Christianity, Catholicism or any of the major US religions was insulted, our country would never get anything accomplished and still be in the dark ages... so maybe these nations that apparently haven't evolved to the point of being able to tolerate an insult like the rest of us have had to should take a lesson and use their energy to better their own country instead of using any insult as an excuse to violence... grow up already and get over yourselves, everyone else has had to.

But when you use that book of myths as an excuse to harm others, rational human beings are understandably upset and will take acton.

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.

The response of the Republican elites is to take these challenges as an excuse not to change.

I have to put my hand up and confess I've taken that verse and used it as an excuse for political apathy.

Balanced as a Beemer, and as refreshing as a power shower, have you ever thought about reviewing «The Shack» and telling us if it is pagan or not, also could you expand a bit on your «take» on tithing, excusing the pun.

However, «waiting on the Lord» — a process that is meant to reassure us of God's presence in our lives — is sometimes used as an excuse to be fearful of taking risks and avoiding failure.

The New York Times is taking a friendly interest in Rick Perry (please excuse the crude linking as I am away from home.)

We take issue with believers using their belief as an excuse to push their ideas onto people who don't share their god - belief and claim superiority over other «infidels.»

Of course, this scripture can also be bent into as an excuse to abdicate responsibility: «The earth is the Lord's, so let Him take care of it!»

Sometimes this may be used as an excuse for the pastor's own reluctance to take on the challenge.

The hip - hop that really took a stand against those sorts of sicknesses, such as you heard with De La Soul's «Ghetto Thang,» and which did not footsy with the b.s. «reality - reporting» excuse, was losing the popularity contest.

Indeed, he does not shrink from taking a criminal as an example, perhaps one well known at the time, since the children of light can learn even from the children of darkness: that unjust steward who is put out of his office does not think of using excuses in order to hold onto his position; he thinks only how, with one final deceit, he can make his future secure while he still has the ability to do so (Luke 16:1 — 8).

Any time there is an offering taken up at work, a freind is in need, someone's moving and needs a couple buddies to go over and help out, potluck luncheons, anything... be it actual money or just time / food, every single time without exception those freinds who are conservative and / or religious are the ones who show up to contribute and every single time the liberal and / or non-believer friends just show up with an excuse as to why they're not giving or didn't bring something or couldn't help that weekend.

Its taken years as I have been reading for longer than I can remember and now I have the excuse to drop you a comment!

Let's use this milestone as an excuse to take an afternoon coffee and cake break (like I need an excuse...) and spend a moment looking back on some of the best recipes and my favorite posts of the year.

You're very welcome Rachelle It only takes 5 minutes to make, so you might not have much of an excuse I'm afraid... As for the advertising, I can block people, but everyone sees different ads depending on their location etc. so it's very difficult to catch all the bad ones!

I love to use my chocolate chip cookie cravings as an excuse to take a work break and go down to Silver Spoon Bake Shop for their epic salted chocolate chip cookie.

We had one last weekend, so we used it as an excuse to take family photos.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Commenting on what takes place in front of my eyes or finding an external influence as an excuse for every shortfall?

By far the best article I have ever read on this site, there was no bias or empty statements, just cold hard facts, the writer even respected wengers budget but still pointed to where he should've improved, there are no excuses, what you read is literrally all u get with arsene, if you gave him a budget of 9m or 1 billion, he will ALWAYS take the risk cause he doesn't give a fk about the consequences as if he was a teenager raging through puberty, his stubborn is absolutely pathetic, can you believe he turned down signing a keeper when almunia was shocking, can you believe he didn't sign a CB when squillaci was awful, can you believe that he REFUSED to sign a CDM for almost 8 years, CAN you believe on one of the most important transfer windows of arsenals history, arsene decided to go host charity matches in rome, that's right instead of trying hard for the fans that have respected him and pay him one of the highest managerial wages in the world, he decided to do what he pleased as usual, cause he doesn't answer to anyone, nor does he giving a flying fk, gazidis a man i thought was also a crook went and did arsene's job for him and at least got us a striker (which cost us the title in january last season) and arsene foolishly proclaims that «if i was here we wouldn't of signed danny» meaning we wouldn't of had ANY recognised cf till giroud recovered, arsene wenger is a joke of the highest order, lack of respect, lack of shame and lack order, i despise him

he had to take it and start making every excuse he can get, every dictionary word so as to justify that failure is really a very gr8 after all, fourth place is like a trophy?

seriously, what is wrong with you, you're making excuses for man united on why they lost to MK DONS for god sake, and not just lost, but were destroyed 4 - 0; had it been us we would have never heard the end of this from you, you would have been all doom and gloom probably telling everyone how we would be lucky to take 4th this season despite taking 4th + for the last 15 years and being just as close to the title as 5th last season and improving or squad (as much as you would like to claim that we have only really signed Sanchez, Campbell is an upgrade and Chambers is an upgrade and we will get another player for sure.)

He'll soon be coming up with his usual excuses as to why we couldn't take 4 last minute deals across the line.