Sentences with phrase «after derision»

The election of Boykin comes after derision from other progressive county Democrats, particularly from the political activism group Indivisible Westchester, who argued that Boykin's apparent alignment with board Republicans ran counter to the progressive movement.

Not exact matches

Fifty years after its first publication, Herberg's critique of pluralism is still impressive, as are his ideas about the importance of group identities and his derision of «the melting pot.»

So, after a lot of reading, and much to the derision / disgust / questioning from my friends and family, I decided to embark on an entirely plant based diet.

They are the subject of much derision in the US this morning after posting this cringe - worthy text on their website!

David Cameron faced mockery and derision in the Commons this lunchtime, after Ed Miliband used the government's alcohol pricing U-turn to pour scorn on his rival's leadership.

Following the 2005 election, Johnson was initially announced on 6 May 2005 as being «Secretary of State for Productivity, Energy and Industry», but after just a week, on 13 May, it was declared that the new title would not be used, after widespread derision of the new name, because the abbreviation for Johnson's title, Productivity, Energy and Industry Secretary, would have been «PENIS».

After decades of being the subject of derision, mom jeans are now a thing.

The mother of the lovechild bastard is hippie Maureen (Juliette Lewis), made the object of absolute derision in the only way Grant (Ever After, Erin Brockovich, 28 Days) is apparently capable of conceiving a mistress.

After being the subject of fans» derision for months and critics» barbs for hours, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun - Li finally hit movie theaters last Friday.

NANTWICH, England — After 80 - some odd years, Ettore Bugatti's derision of Bentley as producing «the fastest lorries in the world» has been rendered literal.

That is what it's like to be a writer, to be that hopeful soul chasing his or her dream regardless of the scorn, the derision, the laughter... and the torrent of rain that comes in the form of rejection after rejection.

In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists (YBAs) after the 1988 Freeze show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of the group by the Saatchi Gallery during the 1990s, generated a media backlash, where the phrase «conceptual art» came to be a term of derision applied to much contemporary art.

Michael Mann, an IPCC colleague of Weaver's, is currently the object of much derision after claiming in a court document that he, too, is similarly a Nobel laureate.

After a decade in which sane commentators have been angered and frustrated by the purblind adherence to the warmist superstition by followers of the Al Gore cult — prominent among them our own esteemed First Minister and President for Life Designate — the whole climate change scam has finally degenerated into a joke, provoking widespread derision.

These days, after a couple of years in a BigLaw firm doing the lowest level possible of quasi legal work, not so much., Sad to say, but I think that proposal to market such a person, perhaps with a PhD in the «intersection between the law and basket weaving» or some other risible contrivance of the new academia, would be met with derision by the business community (in general, exceptions, of course, notwithstanding).