While this is certainly true to some extent, it may also be a cop out.
"I always felt that in a lot of ways that was a cop out, " he says.
Who's the cat who won't cop out when there's danger all around?
In July 2007, just as our financial crisis was getting underway, NASD changed its name to FINRA. Today many everyday investors think of FINRA as an important cop out there policing the investment landscape and protecting us from financial evil doers.
Last Tuesday she declared that she opposed censure--which she later called a "cop-out"--and was leaning toward impeachment.
As a substitute for an account of what happened, it is a cop-out.
Occasionally, however, it results in an obvious cop-out, as when Rudy Giuliani rather than Osama bin Laden was chosen for 2001.
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Allowing selection within mixed-ability schools is what used to be called a cop-out, and is now known as the third way.
Yet they also feel that passively turning over billions to a foundation of the sort left behind by Rockefeller or Ford is a cop-out.
Any hard decisions have been given to a commission a cop-out that condemns workers and firms to more crippling uncertainty about how the country's fiscal mess will be tackled.
"There's only one description of a constitutional-amendment approach--cop-out, " says McCain.
"This is a cop-out by a significant number of European governments, including the UK - it means yet more dither and delay while our bee populations plummet, " he added.
Unfortunately, his explanation of skinhead hatred as mere insanity feels like a cop-out, and protracted stock-footage sequences strain to connect a wider view of British unrest to the intimate story.
The first is a cop-out, since not making estimates is not going to make uncertainty go away, and the second will leave you on the sidelines with any young, growth company.
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"Black is a cop-out, " Ms. Cosgrave says definitively.
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Leaving the Scottish boundary commissioners to decide the right number is a cop-out: their task is to draw lines on maps according to instructions given them by politicians, not to make highly charged political decisions.
Then, as soon as the cop car is out of sight, the music gets turned back on and the party goes harder.
He wrote dispatch software for ambulances and cop cars, dropped out of college (twice), took up botanical drawing, became a certified masseur and, later, dabbled in fashion design.
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The new tale stars Jim Carrey as Steven Russell, who starts out as a married cop with children and finishes as a gay con man in a maximum-security prison.
Days later, when the businessman sent an assistant to get the license, the cop called the youth - who turned out to be none other than Kyaw Ne Win, one of the ex-dictator's grandsons.
But film critic Elvis Mitchell tells Scott Simon that he thinks another performer really stands out: Mark Wahlberg, playing a cop from his native South Boston.
The two deputies were "on the edge, " they said, monitoring the police radio and the latest news about the rogue ex-cop who has pledged to kill officers in and out of uniform.
None of them gave me a ticket since I became a cop in 1979, but I should also point out that the violations in question were pretty mild (window tint from Nevada the first day the car was registered in Wisconsin, 7 mph above the speed limit).
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