excuse

Excuses are ways to get out of owning up to something.

Such a widespread view is becoming the "escape goat" and one of the main self-excuses to such failures of their work.

If I worked harder, I probably could be where Tammy is now in terms of debt reduction and simple living. I have been giving myself excuses.

Though it was too late, their willingness to help was a dramatic contrast to the excuses I had been hearing from the Kidder people.

Dorothy Slaton. Mrs. Slaton was an uncompromising, demanding teacher with high standards and a low tolerance for excuses.

And then the police brought you back from the cemetery and you looked at us with those dull, indifferent eyes, and I stopped making excuses.

But after a while an hour and a half was not enough, and I began to think up excuses to miss dinner.

"Against Juventus it would be easy to find excuses, since they have so many champions, " revealed Brienza.

None of that excuses the mess it has made of its banking system.

She gave many excuses, but what they added up to was that she didn't want to be troubled.

She gave many excuses, but what they added up to was that she did not want to come.

From already we ask for excuses for the happened waiting be able to understand that the mistake has not been ours but of the customs agent.

It's a very selfish environment and that sense, because as you know, you can't make excuses afterwards.

You can build an online business that supports your lifestyle, if you're ready to stop making excuses and start taking action.

Not any more, I've discovered that some of those excuses are the result of the high voltage, electronic existence we live today.

"Smith! " the manager cried out in a voice like thunder "None of your excuses! Go start work at once! "

Not fulfilling these tasks may keep you from moving up to a higher position, due to your apparent undependability, instability, or excuses.

He made all sorts of excuses and frequently crossed himself as he spoke.

He added that the message could be more productive and actionable than just a list of excuses on why Agile would not work.

He kept on making up excuses for his failure to finish the task as if a thousand lies would add up to the truth.

As soon as you do that, you begin to see things that you had completely missed when you were busy blaming others and making excuses.

You can make sure you know a man well by dating him on weekends and vacations. If he's unsure about committing, DUMP him. No excuses.

Charles, if you think Bertha's position excuses her blasphemies, then I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

He constantly made up all kinds of excuses for failing to finish projects, as if they would add up to the truth.

I hope this isn't as big of a revelation to you as it was to me! That the only thing standing in your way is excuses.

Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.

While no one is daft enough to say poverty excuses looting, some insist that poverty has everything to do with what has happened.

But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.

Don't make up any excuses for your being late. What you have to do is to make up for the time you have lost.

You can expect all the "right" reasons & excuses to "take the easy way out" or to make lousy decisions you might later regret.

so Cindy and I have come up with a few sweet excuses for getting out of gym class. Check'em out!

I learned to avoid such a life, or even think that all is secular, such excuses do not know how much to deceive ourselves back.

say goodbye forever to excuses , indifference and regrets . stand up , claim what you want and get ready to do what it takes to get it.

It is so much easier to be tough via e-mail, or to get away with weak excuses, or to make things up, or to say no.

If you think after three years, that I always moan, always make excuses and always complain, then there is nothing I can do about that.

Martin did not deign to offer excuses, but called for whiskey, filling his own glass brimming before he passed the bottle.

After school, Edward and I were going to talk it out, I promised myself. I wasn't accepting any excuses.

"I'll have my " me " time when I go on vacation. " Do you know of any other excuses?

For whatever this may be, it is in thy power to do it or to say it, and do not make excuses that thou art hindered.

Mother saw through Johnny's excuses not to go to bed on Christmas Eve. She knew he wanted to stay up to see Santa Claus.

Stop making excuses. Just stop. No one wants to hear why you couldn't do something, so make a conscious decision to stop talking about it.

Can you think of any excuses for your abcence from class?

One day you might be writing excuses for your own children when they're late or absent or up to some devilment .

Researchers also found that men looked for excuses not to see the doctor when faced with symptoms that could indicate prostate problems.

He began to find various excuses for going out and later even did not want to explain.

Don't try to make any excuses for yourself, because nobody wants to hear these excuses in front of these faults.

Religious faith and devotion have been used as excuses or pretexts for gaining power and land throughout history.

He is very clever at improving excuses when he fails to do what is expected of him .

Is there any excuses to say no to such a rich custom desktop which belongs to your own?

They would cause public outrage and may even be accused of trying to make excuses for the Holocaust.

None of this excuses Wall Street's behavior. Or makes it 'okay' for your tax money to be paid out as bonuses.

A decade later, Beijing is still offering excuses in the run-up to this week's WTO ministerial .

i ' ve had enough of your excuses . you pay what you owe by the end of this week or accept the consequences.

David Clark, chairman of the Wholesale Markets Brokers Association said banks would have fewer excuses not to help businesses.

Why do I always try to cover my small accomplishments under blankets of words that make light of my work or excuses for my lack of ability?

Mary: Don't make excuses, James. I know I was a burden on you. You must have hated me. That's why you got rid of me.

Sun Quan is unhappy and sends emissaries to ask Liu Bei for Jing Province, but Liu dismisses the envoys each time with different excuses.

Or else just do it to the best of your abilities, your talents, and then don't justify or make excuses.

I would prefer that you work steadily until the project is complete. No excuses. Excuses do not help meet deadlines.

He said he hadn't got time or made some such excuses.

Your mind might find several excuses to tell you what your heart wants is impractical, but that's just your conditioning speaking.

TYPICAL USE: The boy had an agile mind, and could come up with excuses as quickly as his mother asked for him.

You my little ones must abandon the excuses for they do not fit into the trajectory of My being and neither does it fit into yours.

They could be spotted sleeping in study hall, dashing to and from the parking lot, or inventing unique excuses to leave classes.

There's no point making excuses, Milan just about deserved it. But nobody remembers the runners-up, we know we did not do enough.

Whiners making excuses that they were never afforded a foot in the door in their lifetime, should look harder.

They were all convenient excuses to hide behind and in some way justify why the world owed me a favor.

make up He made up some excuses about his daughter being sick.

They refuse to make excuses or to blame people. Instead, they look for ways to overcome obstacles.

a person around, but because he did not want to attend the meeting, all the excuses are nonsense, are unwilling to cover the expense.

We've got no excuses. We know the job we've got to do - we've got to go and win the last game and that adds more pressure.

Don't put limits on yourself. Your dreams are waiting to be realized. Don't waste time making excuses. Reach for your peak, your goal!

The other tries to make excuses to get out of the phone, but can't.

But I always made excuses, like "I'm just a social drinker. "

You want this you need that but what you don't realize is that you're just making up excuses for yourself not to live to your fullest.

I don't want to be seen to be making cheap excuses. We lost to a strong team who out-battled us in certain occasions.

None of this excuses the conduct of individuals or professional service firms that may have failed in their duties.

Mr. Seymour tried in vain to make his wife change her mind. She offered a variety of excuses.

She was ready to find excuses for him.

"Silly old fool, " she said to herself aloud. "You are just making excuses to go up there. "

Remember when we used to chase you with your thousand excuses to get you to the shower?

There being no excuses to make up this time, the boy had to hang his head.

He started muttering excuses and even attempted to show me a picture on his phone of his erect penis.

So. . . no excuses. . . right now. . . download this simple goal sheet and fill it out.

No, I don't want to hear a word. She seems great, and she's certainly fine enough for your striking self. No excuses. Fix it.

One of its excuses for not pushing harder has been fear of precipitating a crisis in Zimbabwe that would adversely affect South Africa.

As excuses go, it was an unlikely one, considering Afghanistan's biblical poverty.

Please accept my excuses and tell also your colleagues that it was not my intention to play with you.

The human predicament: the fact that we're living in a nightmare that everyone is making excuses for and having to find ways to sugarcoat.

None of this excuses his egregious, almost maniacal, tactics and his total insensitiveness to our necessities.

As a result, he's trying to find excuses to her and send text messages, chat.

She was always fond of picking a hole in her husband's excuses.

When you stop looking for fall - back excuses on the off chance that you're going to screw up, you take control of your life.

Aditi Kur with Child Line India said the Supreme Court's ruling shuts down such excuses.

He made up excuses for his being late.

Tommy hated school and was always looking for excuses not to go.

"This is nothing new, he has said this before. Terrorists always look for absurd excuses for their despicable deeds, " he said.

He's always making excuses, he has no common sense, and he lacks responsibility.

Not at all. . . I am a guy that never used excuses, and the fact that we played lots of matches is not one of them.

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.

Jeff suggested that blaming everything on remote customers and remote developers is just a way to find excuses.

His comfortable majority means that he has no more excuses for putting off reforms.

Excuses will only make the matter worst.

Many are the paths the heart will tread, and many the excuses its finds, that it may reach what it desires!

He wants us to respond with a positive answer. I have to ask what kind of excuses are we giving?

If you make a mistake, don't make excuses and don't be afraid to ask for help.

This is not the moment to arm him with excuses for inaction.

You are always telling lies and I have had enough of your excuses .

A quick note: excuses and reasons are not the same thing. Let's talk about reasons for a moment.

All this has been done as excuses for their continued pursuance of a policy of aggression and expansion.

Both of these facts are convenient excuses to skip the exercise routine we developed over the summer.

His mother complains that he makes excuses to chicken out of family occasions such as weddings.

Still, as the decades roll by the excuses wear thin. Islam has not prevented democracy from taking root in the Muslim countries of Asia.

Some of the excuses I've used are truly pathetic: I've just got some chicken out of the freezer, there's a documentary on TV I want to see.

The bar is set high for this exam but they have had plenty of class time to prepare, there should be no excuses for failure this time.

Jose Mourinho, to be fair, refused to make excuses afterwards and acknowledged that the team had played badly.

The rest of the mobile marketplace has taken notice and is using WebKit, contemplating it, or making excuses.

I've heard all these excuses before. I'm not falling for your cute act this time. I know you were out last night until 4 am.

Frustrated staff made all kinds of excuses, including an old favourite of the British railways, the "wrong kind of snow" .

If you are looking for the excuses not to exercise or ways to stop exercising, then here I can provide you with the whole list of them.

I found myself making excuses for cutting, hoping that others would believe me; the only person who really believed me was me.

Eventually the price came down and I ran out of excuses not to buy one.

I know, you will have many excuses not to prepare yourself for the last hour of your life.

However, all of these viewpoints are not good excuses of discrimination against the homosexual people.

When it comes to excuses for getting out of unpleasant tasks, "I don't have time" is one of my favorites.

To lessen or attempt to lessen the magnitude or seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses.

And, of course, there is a stream of excuses why there was never any transfer of funds to your account.

Regardless of the correct answer, this suggests that your kids are probably not just making excuses when they tell you they forgot.

They're elaborate excuses we use to take a look at our lives, our successes and failures, and to spend quality time with our loved ones.

It is easy to find excuses to do nothing, but someone who has witnessed misconduct has an unmistakable obligation to act.

Maybe you will say they are all my excuses , and you know I am looking forward to changing this situation already too long times .

Ready to release the need to live in your perfectionism, low self esteem and excuses? Then ask yourself this question.

The boy had an agile mind, and could come up with excuses as quickly as his mother asked for them.

Please I beg u all, dun give any excuses to cover your mistake, b4 you think of doing it, or b4 u being caught doing it, stop it!

I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.

If one really cares for you, he is able to squeeze time for you. No excuses, no lies, no undeliverable promises.

Psychological research backs up the everyday intuition that excuses and denials just irritate others.

He now excuses that as hyperbole; but he has stripped the Liberals of any credible stand on the issue.

You don't need any excuses to make yourself happy, this 'little smile trick' is just one of the many ways.

Do not quiet your dreams . When the twilight comes to us , let there be no excuses , no explanations , no regrets !

Fine feathers and scarlet cloaks would not be excuses for baseness and deception.

I'm as competent as you are with often more compelling excuses for our bosses as to why we missed the completion of project deadlines!

Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

"There are no more excuses left this time around, " she said.

But, he said, 'I'm not here to make excuses right now. '

After all this time it's time to start walking the talk, with the excuses stopping now.

Any additional excuses they muster forth will not be believed, as what is about to unfold will take them by surprise!

Alyssa: So you're just going to make up excuses not to help him?

made some excuses and quickly introduced his three colleagues. Miss Sun had not yet come down.

We should stop pointing fingers and making excuses that seem to confuse and anger more than unite our community.

Monitor any excuses you might be making in relation to your goal.

Said to myself: through, and what I put on the airs of excuses, I was not imprisoned by aircraft, the figures may have seen more money.

I have seen managers who made up excuses to avoid business trips, because their frequent absences were causing so much marital tension.

He made excuses to linger on the stairs.

Widespread economic uncertainty and fiscal austerity should not be excuses to do less.

The experiments involved a game that eliminated the excuses we usually have for refusing to let go.

Nobody believes him regardless of any excuses.

But researchers said this made it easier to blame technological faults. However, teachers are still seeing through many excuses.

He launched into a long series of excuses for his behaviour.

One friend sometimes excuses himself to use the restroom at cocktail parties, then flees without saying good- bye .

No matter what the excuses are, the only thing usually limiting them is their own self-perception.

I'm not prepared to listen to your weak excuses.

I'm not making excuses for him, but maybe he lost his head.

Ireland, at least, has some excuses for its fiscal mess .

For all the excuses you and I can make Jesus shows us time and time again in the Gospels that we are to be compassionate people.

While I could probably write a book filled with those excuses, let's tackle some of the most common.

But as he comes from a village, the headmaster who was born in a rich family is bad to him and does his best to make excuses to punish him.

They may have chosen to ignore "that part of your life" , perhaps inventing their own excuses.

The research found that bogus meetings, over-running lunches and doctor's appointments were the top three excuses.

I'd make excuses for him, you know?

You can always make excuses but the truth is that you can always do something, so begin with that.

He made excuses for being late.

Do not bid on this project if you make excuses for delays.

U. S. firms undertook massive investment in Europe after about 1955 for a variety of reasons or excuses.

Second, policymakers are fast running out of excuses for not raising interest rates.

But when we focus on God and His ability and willingness to help us in every way -- all our excuses become insignificant.

When Alona Fromberg-Elkayam, the branding agency's president, approached the employee, she says she was met with flimsy excuses.

I'm not prepared to listen to all your excuses.

i make no excuses for my desires as a man. i make no excuses for myself. i move through the world without apology.

And of course, passion keeps us from not finding excuses to do nothing.

NAUGHTY and tiresome children like insults (both overt and needling) as well as implausible and elaborate excuses.

Under Vladimir Putin, the archives stayed sealed, judicial rehabilitation of the victims stalled and the excuses and deceits crept back.

Like Jakarta, one of the primary excuses being used is that heavy buildings are pushing the land down!

We have to remember that our political leaders are absolutely shameless in creating excuses for bad economic outcomes.

If the same person arrives late to a date, however busy the schedule, excuses do need to be made.

Patience, passion and persistence are the key in language acquisition. Never let excuses stop you from learning.

Don't think: he is drunk, it is only accident which occurs occasionally, he is careless. . . . Betray without excuses.

Don't find excuses to stop you from writing by telling yourself the subject is too boring.

But neither that, nor the likelihood that some food aid would be stolen, are excuses for giving nothing.

I know it was a bad penalty kick, I'm not making excuses for it.

Yet despite making savings, they still feel guilty and use excuses to try to justify their purchase to their husband or boyfriend.

On usual days, they would not like to take their time to visit their parents with the excuses of busyness.

He demanded that Congress confront the president over Iraq: "No timeline, no funding. No excuses. "

Mr. Frank: I really don't need to hear any excuses. We run a tight ship here. Keep up.

It places, so that the psychological hate to weave lies is always looking for excuses.

A list of the typical excuses for not being done on time: *note (These work for reports or even homework from school) My dog ate the report.

A: Did you see him fall all over himself making excuses?

Excuses range from a claimed need for confidentiality to the cost of photocopying.

At times teams that are going through a difficult period start making excuses, but that didn't happen here.

Please do not use various excuses to avoid your payment.

Give my excuses to your mother for having caused her so much trouble.

All his friends and relatives declined with the flimsiest of excuses.

The one thing I did have was a rich dad who taught me to use my mind to make money . . . and not to make excuses.

But this year, we have such a strong line-up , if not beat, it does not have any excuses.

And, I mean, OK, I'm not actually saying that these excuses are completely valueless.

We cannot afford to go on giving excuses that we didn't get that because of that.

I certainly do not want to sound like looking for excuses for the dilemma I tried to describe.

The Fed needs to stop making excuses, while the president needs to come up with real job-creation proposals.

The boy had and agile mind, and could come up with excuses as quickly as his mother asked for them.

His many fans certainly do; they appreciate his no-nonsense approach to racing and his refusal to complain or make excuses.

Life is what happens while you're busy making your excuses. Another day, another casualty . But that won't happen to me.

Every time you say these words I have deliberately let himself believe you for what you find excuses to miss all to themselves Lan.

No more excuses! I'm fed up with your excuses. You have to apologize for it.

a lame attempt to apologize; lame excuses for not arriving on time.

He never made me such excuses.

For me there's no excuses sitting here at all, the simple message is that we have to show how sorry we are by our performances on the pitch.

You see the truth in this and try to find excuses one by one.

Life is the most innocent thing, It is undoubtedly the most equitable, but it was made excuses for doing evils by countless people.

Unh unh. Don't make excuses for her.

I was the good EX without any excuses! ! without anything like we were just good friends! !

Few predicted the severity of this crisis, yet once Bear Stearns collapsed there could be no excuses.

He had excuses, but the group challenged him to once again call his brother.

Life is to be lived. No excuses. No reservations. No holding back.

One of excuses that were given by the lazy students sounds strange.

"I don't want to hear any excuses, " the doctor said.

I am not prepared to listen to all your weak excuses.

No more excuses for your being late, behave yourself.

Happiness doesn't need a reason, missing find excuses, how does not possess, just silently silent in the tears when wet with the sunset.

Living in denial is not an option and rest assured knowing that hiding behind foolish excuses will get you nowhere.

You are married to a batterer and you are typically codependent in making excuses for him, rather than thinking about your own welfare.

There are no excuses for mediocrity and you pay a very high price for a little safety in life.

She got up and made her excuses to Mrs. West.

I am not going to sit here and bring out excuses but there are a lot of new players here, new ideas and a new manager.

Don't make excuses, beat yourself up, or overcompensate for your error.

Ignorance of fact excuses, ignorance of the law does not excuse.

Of course, none of this excuses the riots.

Daniel was always making excuses for forgetting to do things.

None of your excuses will be accepted.

Really good salesperson will not complain, make excuses, because pride will not allow them to do so.

Excuses are poison to your dreams. Never let yourself make any excuses about why you cannot go after your dreams.

Many people found excuses to refuse to join this naked chat with Lao Liu and me. So let me make a short summary.

The little boy tried to justify his actions with lame excuses.

Professor Fine tells Clark that he should come work for him, even though Clark shows up late for his class and fumbles with excuses.

a: i really don't want to hear your excuses. we're running a busy Office here.

And voters will blame politicians who, when they had a chance to do something, made excuses instead.

Do these people not realize the immorality that comes from humanizing (aka: finding excuses) for rapists and mass murderers?

Now, me and my mates, we didn't want to admit we were scared, so after we ran out of excuses to avoid it, we made our way inside.

Unfortunately, for too many of my fellow citizens, life has become a catalogue of excuses, idleness, entitlements and cowardice.

Over the past decade, dozens of charter and independent schools, like Promise Academy, have become no excuses schools.

They claim that the dog is being stubborn and that the owner is just making excuses.