cop-out

* PM, Birchgrove LINDA SAYS: Working full-time, and, therefore, being unable to partake in any "domestic stuff" sounds like the mother of cop-outs to me.

I'm a socialist but feel blaming disgustingly rich footballers for all of society's ills has become the easiest of cop-outs.

These actions can only be criticized as ''cop-outs'' and neglecting the party's duty.

Back in the day, they were called cop-outs. In my reading of the Good Book, they are simply called intolerable."

BBC2's Horizon programme alone brought us half a dozen cop-outs including the "survival of the fattest" notion that claims it is all down to evolution because in times of famine in prehistory only the lardy would have lived through the shortages.

'We are not looking for cop-outs. After that comes the top four.'

We were the victim of BBC One's success and local audiences then don't care much for cop-outs. ``Five episodes went network, unadvertised and unpromoted during afternoon schedules.

Since September 11, the cop-outs have continued to proliferate.

These are cop-outs. Japan should modernize now, not in three years or 40 years, when it's easier.

How often we meet with such cop-outs. Much better to curse the darkness than to light a candle.

Most arguments against getting a license are cop-outs by people too lazy or too scared to take the test.

Dershowitz, The Abuse Excuse: And Other Cop-Outs, Sob Stories, and Evasions of Responsibility (Boston, 1994); and James Q.

Result is an evenhanded movie that is free of both traditional Hollywood cop-outs and antiwar preachiness.

Now comes "Growing Together," a powerful analysis by a socially attuned, mulitracial Los Angeles-based academic team that argues both attitudes are dangerous cop-outs.