Sentences with phrase «years of excuses»

Then, after years of excuses, I found myself accompanying a friend to the gym.

Years of excuses and not being wanted by my wife has led me to begin to not want her.

In a time when Manchester United have their weakest team for a decade, Chelsea are «in transition», Citeh are still restricted by the inabilities of Mancini / Platt / Kidd, Liverpool flatter to deceiver - this Arsenal team are incapable of winning any trophy whatsoever.The squad is paper thin as far as real talent is concerned.There are far too many passengers and «dead wood» abounds.Who on earth could do a better job as a manager of a team who are outclassed by Swansea and outplayed by Fulham, cant beat Wolves when almost every other team can!I don't know but sooner rather than later i believe we will find out!But one thing is certain he won't get 7 years of excuses before receiving his marching orders.

Oh goody Two more years of excuses «it was the ref ect ect» Two more years of not getting the players we need and selling the ones we have And two more years of bombing get out of CL in the last 16 Also two more years of highest season ticket prices and EVERYONE else in the footballing world either la7gjing at us or shaking Thier heads in utter astonishment Oh goody

As a matter of fact some Kempesque Manchester United fans wanted Ferguson fired in the 1989 - 90 season, when banners with the following message were commonplace at Manchester United games «Three years of excuses and it's still crap... ta - ra Fergie».

12 years of promises 12 years of excuses.

Not exact matches

The so - called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark of the eight - year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.

After years of riding the «buy the dip» strategy to success, investors seem to have flipped the switch and are now «selling the rip» — or using periods of strength as an excuse to offload holdings.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

I think New Year's resolutions should be thought of as a good excuse to put the year you've just had into perspective and to explicitly declare what you want for the futYear's resolutions should be thought of as a good excuse to put the year you've just had into perspective and to explicitly declare what you want for the futyear you've just had into perspective and to explicitly declare what you want for the future.

And I'll be honest, I still made my fair share of excuses this year.

One of our goals this year is around increasing engagement and making sure consumers keep coming, have an excuse to keep coming back to the app all the time.»

This approach of letting excuses come to mind has an antithesis: «We have enough to win» is a favorite phrase of Tom Thibodeau, the 2010 - 11 NBA Coach of the Year and expresses the fact that the team will find a way to win with what it has.

The last time it disappointed, in the third quarter of last year, when it failed to meet its own prediction for new subscriber adds, it gave a strange excuse: the transition from mag - stripe to chip - based credit cards.

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.

Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).

Faith has always been used as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity for the last 6000 years of recorded history, and it has always been a delusion.

After a string of half - hearted excuses offered to The Washington Examiner, including saying that Moore never had «intercourse» with any of the girls and that it all happened «40 years ago,» Ziegler moved on to a defense so abhorrent it'll make your teeth fall out to read it:

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.

But over the years, as I have personally engaged in hypocritical and sinful behavior, and as I have watched other Christians do the same, I have found that there are several excuses we give for our poor treatment of other people, and for sin in our own lives.

The responsibility of a Mother is Huge, There are consequences, ask any women who has aborted a child, ask her years later and she can tell you how old the child would have been if she had kept it, how much she regrets it, Abortion is murder, we all know it we just like to hide it under lots of little excuses.

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.»

The excuses of the friar's age and car accident seven years ago are no excuse.

The fact is that a lot of people use «thoughts and prayers» as an excuse for not really doing much of anything, as we've seen in recent years regarding mass shootings in America.

«In the handful of instances during the John Paul years in which local bishops tried to formally expel abusers from the priesthood, in a process known as laicization, the Vatican often urged caution — not to excuse abuse, but to defend the priesthood.».

I'm so glad i left this moldy, rotting, sickened excuse of a cult over 10 years ago.

I have encountered but one Christian (naked pastor) in the 8 years of my life as a non believer, who actually listened to what I said without immediately coming up with an excuse for why Jesus seems to be a no - show.

Of course, things could dip throughout the rest of December, but Crouch says the odds of this being the nation's hottest year on record are at 99.7 percent, so you can be excused for celebrating a little early.Of course, things could dip throughout the rest of December, but Crouch says the odds of this being the nation's hottest year on record are at 99.7 percent, so you can be excused for celebrating a little early.of December, but Crouch says the odds of this being the nation's hottest year on record are at 99.7 percent, so you can be excused for celebrating a little early.of this being the nation's hottest year on record are at 99.7 percent, so you can be excused for celebrating a little early...

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

But that in no way excuses people from questioning that they may have been lied to for hundreds of years.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

There is no excuse for this, as vegetables of all kinds can be grown the year round in most parts of Mexico.

This time of year I find any excuse I can to invite people over.

Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday, and I use the cold weather as an excuse the bake 24/7 this time of year.

Hey, any excuse to get a special treat one more day out of the year!

I love that I can walk into my butcher and say, «Excuse me, but I had a dish at the Crocodile in Vancouver a few years ago and I have been dreaming of making roasted bone marrow ever since.

I hope that if you're celebrating the new year, that you have a sweet one and even if you're not, that you will find excuse to make one of these anyway.

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.

In America, it's the last excuse of the year for us to get together and enjoy a great Monday off work, eat BBQ, drink beer, and annoy our neighbors with sparkly explosives.

When I was a kid, New Year's Eve was always a good excuse to stay up passed bedtime and make an obscene amount of noise when the clock struck 12.

I have been hinting for years about starting our own garden, we always had an excuse, no time, too much work and the best of all with all the veggies my mother - in - law plants she could feed half the town.

The first thing I noticed in the pic was the sunburn then the sweat:) I'm jealous of your weather right now won't be so much later this year in the winter... Have never tried any kind of pepper jelly I guess I grew up in a deprived southern family... LOL Trying to get back to working out this week feeling much better so no excuses: -LRB-

Not that anyone needs an excuse to hold on to a couple of extra caramel eggs but this year tuck a few aside to make this ultra fudgy and chocolatey Cadbury Caramel Egg Brownies.

«We have worked very hard, but thanks to my team, we've been able to have a positive number of sales year after year, so we don't have an excuse not to grow.

Switch out the sprinkles and you have an excuse to make these any time of year!

But whether you're interested in the tennis or not (and I'm not, quite honestly) then this time of year is a great excuse to enjoy some strawberries with cream!

Usually this time of year I find myself using football as an excuse to go crazy with the Buffalo recipes (So probably more to come.).

And look for any excuse to make mashed potatoes throughout the rest of the year?

Henry may not be eating solids quite yet, but I rarely need an excuse to make chocolate cupcakes, and it feels right to mark this milestone with fanfare, because I can't believe that half a year has already passed with this sweet little human of mine.

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year simply because it's a time when the leaves are changing, the weather is getting cooler, and you have an excuse to stay inside to watch football with friends and family and gather around the table with some delicious party food!