Sentences with phrase «almost with disdain»

Lords Amendments, which are often very sensible, are dismissed peremptorily and almost with disdain, thus destroying the benefits of better scrutiny in the second chamber.

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Its only fault is that it has seen us through a tough time (if constantly finishing in the top 4 and getting to the latter stages of the Champions League are indeed tough times) and for that it is almost at times treated with disdain.

So after what will be another summer of hell, Brown's fate is almost certainly to continue at the helm, bashed about by the newspapers, nearly all of them dancing to the same tunes, and viewed with disdain by his colleagues.

With the fact that almost anything I could possibly ever want is available online, and that so much of my shopping inspiration comes from The Internet, combined with my disdain for Oxford Street, it is rare that I go into physical shops on a whim, or without a specific item in mWith the fact that almost anything I could possibly ever want is available online, and that so much of my shopping inspiration comes from The Internet, combined with my disdain for Oxford Street, it is rare that I go into physical shops on a whim, or without a specific item in mwith my disdain for Oxford Street, it is rare that I go into physical shops on a whim, or without a specific item in mind.

Filmed (with great political difficulty and necessitating much censorship) in China, it was an ambitious, large - scale production overseen by Raffaella de Laurentiis and directed by the Canadian Daryl Duke; but when it was finally released the film was met with almost universal critical disdain and proved to be a box office disaster.

Science fiction writers and readers have looked right back at literary writers with almost the same level of disdain.

Almost all asked us why we would visit Brasilia with great disdain.

They have the choice to either expose or suppress the truth, and such is their almost 100 % «progressive» groupthink, their obsession with the superficial «look» of things, and their disdain for their role in democracy, that they choose according to their ideological agenda.

That's fantastic news, since rumors of a rear - mounted scanner were met with almost universal disdain from iPhone devotees who have become accustomed to the front - mounted Touch ID.