Sentence examples for cop out on from inspiring English sources

It's our feline-loving coadge's first battle, and while, for the most part, it seems that the coadges have been playing fairly in the Battle Rounds rather than using them to weed out their not-so-strong singers, this one kind of seemed like a cop out on Cee Lo's part.

"Who wouldn't be happier to know there was another good cop out on the street?" she said.

It's a bit of a cop out on the author's part, because how challenging is it to imagine a world that's empty?

It's a cynical cop out on the institution's part, really, taking a pass on the difficult job of evaluating talent and capitulating to the reality of big-time biomedical research: It's all about the cash.

It's a cop out on the part of IT departments, just as it should be, in that it allows them to sit on tested – but old – software while updating their junky old hardware.

Update: Prominent member of the Flickr community Thomas Hawke writes that disingenuously chalking it up to Guidelines issues is a "giant cop out" on Flickr's part as, "Flickr knows that Flickr is *full* of photos that are "not a member's work".

It only put corrupt cops out on the street to engage in crime full time".

I'm disappointed that Mr. Crouch cops out on something that really matters in his otherwise accurate appreciation of Louis Armstrong.

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"You're going to put cops out on the street, you're going to have to sort of give them the benefit of the doubt, unless there's evidence to the contrary, that they're acting in good faith," he said.

"But without traffic cops out on the road to enforce this new approach it will have little impact on road safety".