I wince with every gulp and beg off after the sixth shot.
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I beg off drinks because I'm still not feeling great, and head home.
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Since Peterson had no desire to make a vice bust, he started to beg off.
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But the White House isn't really in the mood to let Sessions beg off this obligation.
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Beg off of the family celebration and invite like-minded friends to celebrate or commiserate with you.
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TARA DEMOSS I tried to beg off seeing "The Greatest Showman," and I reluctantly went with my husband.
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He invited me to the block party, but I had to beg off because of a work assignment.
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You've been driving for five hours, you want to shower, but faced with a cheese plate you cannot beg off.
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Usually I can get someone to come with me for a laugh, but many people beg off saying they're too shy.
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Last fall, when I needed to beg off from a commitment, I didn't fabricate some physical ailment, as I had in the past.
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I had one host beg off answering a question because she needed to greet Elijah Wood, who had casually dropped by the installation.
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But having to beg off, duck out, or provide a suitable explanation that good middle-class kids, parents, and teachers could even hear, that's hard.
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I explain how I feel and beg off, but he shows up with lemons, ginger, and honey to make tea, and basically babies me until I fall asleep.
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After all, you never know when they may want to video chat, and you don't want to beg off because you look unkempt or aren't wearing a shirt.
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Scott Pruitt, for his part, insisted that climate change is "subject to continuing debate and dialogue" (a meaningless truism that's often used to beg off any further discussion).
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The New York Times reported that Trump had ordered Mueller to be fired in June, only to beg off after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign in protest.
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Masnick spoke today at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City, and while most people at public events will beg off commenting directly on ongoing litigation, Masnick made the lawsuit his central topic.
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He had been invited to the Vanity Fair party that night, one of the biggest see-and-be-seen soirees of the festival, but decided to beg off another night of flashbulbs and schmoozing.
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Thus, a cycle of tradeoffs is established that's hard to get out of: Women who choose less time-intensive jobs can't beg off washing the dishes, doing the laundry, and cleaning the house, when they've made way for their partners to be out in the world making money.
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That second image in particular functions as a bit of a dual metaphor, as our intrepid spies have been busy little bees of late, to the point where they're feeling stretched so thin that they try to beg off their Kansas honeypot mission (holy crap, there's a THIRD nod to the bees) when Gabriel presents it to them.
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The film was first announced in January 2014 and production began that same month. The film was based on a concept by Coco Martin who drew from his experiences as an OFW in Canada. Nora Aunor was the first and original choice to play the lead actress alongside Martin. She initially had to beg off the project due to being busy with other projects.
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I suddenly > remembered my career was supposed to be fun by itself. It would probably be > better if I focused on my main sources of income and made those as good as I > could possibly make them. It felt as if all of my projects were suffering in > that I couldn't give them the time and attention that I wanted. I had to > make some tough decisions and really pare it down, which would also leave > room to participate in other people's things and not be having to beg off > because I've over-committed myself to projects that I have created.
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Air21 also had talks with former Senator and the PBA's Living Legend Robert Jaworski to either accept a capacity within the team or as a head coach before he beg off prior to the start of the Fiesta Conference. Still, the Express finished with a 10–8 record for fifth place in the standings with Shawn Daniels as import. At one point, Air21 was 7–3 before losing five of their last eight games, before beating San Miguel in a one-game playoff for the third outright quarterfinals berth. The Talk 'N Text Phone Pals defeated them in the quarters in a full three-game series, despite the Express' Game 1 victory.
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Having known of Jackson's background, Truman added a short note to the letter and sent it to his White House aide, Donald S. Dawson, saying "...Don: Let's look into this. Tell Mr. [Averell] Harriman what we are doing. If this works out, we'll forget Gen. Smith."Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum; official file 1285-Nominations - Co-authored letter: SecDef Louis A. Johnson and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley to President Truman, dated July 18, 1950. White House, March 1, 1956: William Harding Jackson, U.S. National Security Advisor and President Dwight D. Eisenhower General Walter Bedell Smith did not want the job of DCI and tried to beg off on health issues, repeatedly.
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Jack Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) and Gil Turner (Ed Begley Jr.) are writers for The Sensation, a supermarket-grade tabloid run by Turner's father, Mac Turner (Norman Fell). Jack is a more serious journalist, using The Sensation as a stepping stone to a better career and aspires to work for Time Magazine, while Gil is a gangling yes-man, ever ready to win his father's approval. When Mac receives a homemade videotape of two panicked men running from a creature they believe to be Frankenstein's monster, along with a waist-down shot of the suspected monster, he dispatches his son and Jack to Transylvania to follow the lead. Jack tries unsuccessfully to beg off, but is told by Mac that if they both again come back with nothing, they are both fired.
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