Every self-respecting horse handicapper has a litany of reasons ready so as not to take the blame.
Mr. Bush has always been careful to have multiple reasons ready for his major policy proposals, and his administration has deployed them deftly to adapt to changing circumstances.
Have about five major reasons ready to tell people as to why your cosmetics line is amazing and worth trying.
Have several good reasons ready for why you are wearing them, should others come over to see you in your house.
For example, if you need money to go to a movie, you might have a few reasons ready, like, "Nicole wants to see a movie for her birthday, and I promised her I would come to this birthday since I missed the last one".
The University administration, for some reason, was ready to give us carte blanche on the design.
(The owner-sellers, the Doolittles, who're currently in Boca Grande, put their fingers into the millennial economic breezes earlier this fall and detected a cooling slowdown, and for that reason are ready to shift into municipal bonds and, conceivably, gold).
And as 2016 careers on – like a stolen car driven by drunk teenagers - it is starting to feel as if the forces of reason are ready to throw in the towel.
The other reasons – not ready yet, independence, and other reasons – were mentioned far less often.
