Sentences with phrase «anathema to someone»

It does, however, potentially provide for outcomes that today's speakers may regret as the bankruptcy court has the power to approve austerity - driven spending cuts anathema to many of the people now seeking bankruptcy court access for Puerto Rico.

As a culture, we're squeamish about «bathroom stuff,» and the idea that someone would purposefully subject themselves to helping others clear the constipation seems anathema to most people, even people who understand how colonics can support physical health.

I do like that Valve and Steam seem to care about backwards compatibility and modding in a way that seems anathema to most other console or even OS makers.

At other times, your emotional investment in the characters actually proves counter-productive — for example, when you can choose between multiple courses of action, yet all are complete anathema to what you would do if you were him or her.

Bankruptcy, as I have stated herein (seemingly interminably) is the only way to rid yourselves of this bureaucratically run bunch whose ideas are anathema to good business sense in favour of its PAYING membership.

The arbitration of consumer disputes is not anathema to consumer advocates.

But if you're one of many politicians who claims to support the working poor in this city, a Republican - aligned conference should be anathema to everything you hold dear.

First, seat - time funding is totally anathema to virtual education — far more so than for brick - and - mortar schools that have been funded based on seat time for generations.

In 2011, Carvalho helped implement a merit pay system — considered anathema to most teachers union officials, including Weingarten — that tied raises to teachers» evaluation scores and provided bonuses for highly effective teachers.

Although the idea of a publisher for a platform that encourages such free self - publishing may seem like anathema to indie developers, Chillingo's efforts have helped turn Cut the Rope into a big cultural hit for iOS.

It was invented, or «revealed» according to mormons, 150 years ago to a New Yorker, and the religious beliefs of mormons are completely anathema to Christianity AND mormons do not conside any of the actual Christian denomonations to be «Christians» because they don't beleive that Joe Smith was guided by Moron - i to translate magic tablets using a magic breastplate and hat in New York, thus revealing the truth that Indians are Jews and Jesus was in North America.

Anathema to environmentalists because it creates so much pollution, coal still has the undeniable advantages of being widely available and easy to ship and burn.

Or is it an elitist fad at best — and perhaps anathema to American values, as some critics contend?

The liberal Democrat said he expects Trump's tax plan «to be met with a huge backlash,» asserting many of its provisions would reap a windfall for high earners at the expense of domestic programs, and would involve an «immense amount of deficit spending» — supposedly anathema to conservative Republicans.

The thrust of Bredesen's thesis is that as powerful as natural therapies are, they are even more powerful when individualized to the patient, an idea which is complete anathema to the drug companies and their allies at the FDA.

Where once family was the main safety net that built and held you, that concept is slowly becoming anathema to newer generations who want to be free of the ties that bind, of all that «ghachar ghochar.»

Criticism feels anathema to these impulses, especially when it stirs emotional reactions (including tears).

A third possibility is that Labour have reached a ceiling in their support — Jeremy Corbyn may be very popular among Labour supporters, but he is anathema to others and the alternative of Corbyn's Labour is propping up Conservative support that might otherwise be faltering.

What this says is that though these policies are anathema to New Labour, they fit perfectly with traditional Labour policy.

This term was anathema to scientists.

And he backed Bush's Troubled Asset Relief Program, to bail out the financial industry during the last recession, an initiative that was anathema to Tea Party supporters, including many in his district.

The Aldrich plan, ostensibly the fruit of the National Monetary Commission's extensive deliberations, but really a scheme secretly cobbled together by Aldrich and his banker friends at Jekyll Island, was (according to Paolo Coletta) «particularly anathema to Bryan... because it called for a single, privately controlled central bank located in New York.»

They are anathema to civilized humanity and should be isolated from it entirely.

Methane leaks are also anathema to Americans who pride themselves as efficient managers of natural resources, said Jon Goldstein, senior policy manager at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

It is in fact neither — although its championing of tolerance and humanism will be anathema to fundamentalists of any faith, while its open condemnation of religious hypocrisy ought to shame those who use the name of God to justify greedy campaigns for land, resources and power.

The idea of gluten - free pasta was once anathema to top Italian chefs, but now, in many of the finest and most expensive Italian restaurants in the country, including New York City's Del Posto, diners can find gluten - free pastas on the menus.

«They are anathema to Indian cooking,» wrote Dharamjit Singh, author of Indian Cookery, «prepared for imaginary palates, having neither the delicacy nor the perfume of flowers...

In my understanding, there's nothing more anathema to RWA's stated mission than to financially underwrite advertisements for a vanity press.

Abstract painting is in many ways anathema to the society and culture in which we live.

«Part of what came out of the turbulence of the last day or so is a realisation there are people around Jeremy who are prepared to see the Labour party split rather than for him to go, and that is anathema to everybody who thinks that we need to get rid of this government and the damage that they are doing and the further damage that a rightwing — even more rightwing — Tory government would do,» she said.

Because a lot of the things that he stands for, people outside the city of New York find anathema to their own interests.»

Heaney's people are quick to point to Faso's tenure at Manatt, Phelps as proof that he is an «Albany insider,» which is anathema to Republican primary voters.

The EPP, or the European People's party, advocates a federal Europe, something anathema to most Conservatives.

Far from being anathema to progressive values, high - quality charter schools demonstrate how to translate these educational values into practice by committing to college success, increasing teacher diversity, rethinking school discipline, and supporting vulnerable populations.

Minimaps in the corner of the screen are crucial for situational awareness and anathema to immersion.

But as much as we hear about how essential it is to change jobs every two to four years, the bottom line is that — subconsciously — this concept remains anathema to many people.

Low pay, excessive bureaucracy and ineffective colleagues are all attributable to CB contracts and anathema to great teachers.

There is no strong lobby trying to decrease pet ownership in Britain where declawing is anathema to cat lovers.

The whole notion of binding arbitration of consumer claims is anathema to consumer advocates in many countries, including Canada.

To Jefferson, Protestant denominations were no better than the Roman Catholic Church: all stood as enemies of mental freedom, and all were therefore anathema to lovers of liberty and - the true Supreme Being for Jefferson - «Reason.»

These concepts were anathema to fans of the character depth and humor of the Sierra and LucasArts adventures.

I grew up in England; I went to school as a young boy in England and I grew up at a time in England when homosexuality was banned there, it was illegal and I lived in the period when British politicians thought it was anathema to think about changing the law and suddenly the activities of individuals, of groups, a certain awareness, a certain development grew and grew and grew stronger and it forced a change in law.

Even though Donald Trump is no fan of Jeff Bezos, regulation appears anathema to him and his base at the moment.