Sentences with phrase «as a joke makes»

In a press statement yesterday, Public Relations Officer of the Tribunal, Ibrahim Alhassan, urged the public to regard the statement as a joke made in good faith and not to obstruct the practice of journalism in the country.

Sending sexual images as a joke makes up approximately a quarter of the participants.

Not exact matches

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

That feud included Hannity calling Kimmel a racist, pervert, and «Harvey Weinstein Jr.,» while Kimmel ultimately drew criticism and apologized for making what many saw as a homophobic joke about Hannity's apparent love for Trump.

First Lady Melania Trump dismissed Ivana Trump's comments joking that she really held the position of First Lady, as the former insinuated in a statement that her husband's ex-wife only made the comments to sell her new memoir.

You could just as easily question whether it ever made sense to archive a bunch of bad jokes, but now we know we don't need to save everything.

The same day as Kalanick's letter, Uber board member David Bonderman announced his resignation after coming under fire for a sexist joke he made during the all - hands meeting to go over the results of an internal investigation surrounding sexual harassment and discrimination.

For example, a campaign for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 might target fans already tweeting about the series, users who've tweeted aboutDivergent or, hypothetically, anybody making a joke about volunteering as tribute and having the odds ever in their favor.

And I'm very appreciative of having done that because it was something that my mother and I had with each other as a joke because she would tease me and ask me to let her know when I had made enough money for her to sue me for using her name.

Early last year, Trump retweeted an apparent joke that compared Hillary Clinton's ability to serve as President to her ability to sexually please her husband: «If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?»

These managers are as likely to terrorize a colleague for making an honest mistake as they are to drop politically incorrect jokes into pre-meeting small talk.

He anticipates that many employees will opt in to 2G Tuesdays — 2G Mondays just didn't sound nearly as catchy, he jokes — to get a better understanding of what the internet feels like for people in different parts of the world and to help report issues and make suggestions that his team might not have thought of.

You've probably heard cracks before that Twitter humor largely consists of jokes made on Tumblr being shared as screenshots on Facebook, but within this joke is a larger point about how all of these systems interconnect and interact.

They joke about not knowing the business as much as making an investment in the quality of the management.

The argument that can be made that having roots as a joke may not have been a good long - term strategy.

Another remarked that after an angry outburst, he'd suddenly make a joke as if nothing had happened, not realizing the destabilizing effect of his mood changes on those around him.

Curiously, founder / CEO / cult leader Elon Musk just tweeted an April Fool's joke yesterday that Tesla was declaring bankruptcy... making light of his company's dire financial condition as if he either doesn't understand or doesn't care.

When you make a generalization such as those believing in some sort of religion are the jokes in the intellectual world... I assure you that you are not conversing with the intellectual world.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

You are like my brother - in - law who can not help making grossly inappropriate jokes — we ignore him when we can, as this tends to be the most effective way of «moving on» past jokes like that.

Even those who are committed to the Church may tend to hide their piety inside several insulating layers, disguised as interest in history, architecture and nature, and a tendency to make jokes about blisters.

A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as «The women, God help us!»

As expected, Seth MacFarlane, who will be hosting the ceremony, announced the nominees with stunningly unfunny jokes and managed, somehow, to make a Hitler one.

And he wants us to be happy.so people just take it as a joke.He didn't make a joke of God he was just being funny.

Also without all the jokes about religion that make people laugh, the rate of depression would increase as well.

In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

Any «condemnations» made by the U.S. are viewed as they should be — a sick joke.

There is a dramatic word in Colossians that Christ «disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it [the cross]» (Col. 2:15).15 The astounding paradox, or we might even call it, reverently, God's practical joke, is that it is precisely in offering himself as Victim that Christ becomes Victor.

Flashing a picture of the patriarch in his liturgical robes, Colbert jokes that the vestments make Ignatius look like «Golden Snake Santa Pope,» a comic figure who would fit right in as King of Mardi Gras.

The DJ made a sneering joke as follows: «Europe has invented two narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, and I know which one I prefer».

Lowery also said he made clear at the time that the comments - at the event reportedly attended by hundreds of African Americans - were intended as a joke.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

Someone once told me they think of Rachel as the logical and rational teacher Jesus feminist, and I'm the soft squishy mama - heart Jesus Feminist — and so together we complement each other nicely (< insert joke about how we make wonderful complementarians >) in these discussions.

Do you have a position on stuff you will or won't make jokes about as a result of your faith?

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

They do not believe God is the same today, even though He says He is, they are now rejecting the Christ in us coming forth, and they say they are Christ - ians: They have made Christianity a Joke because of their unbelief, and that is why religion is hated, because they are not Christian's; to be a Christian is to have Christ in us grown up to be just as He; so we too can speak all the same things, Christ is not divided; even as is written:

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

Given my belief that communion wine can be validly consecrated into the Blood of Christ, and communion bread into the Body of Christ, we can now cue all the folks who will make jokes about cannibalism, etc. (just as the Romans did about early Christians — very little anti-Christian humor is original).

Their site even posted a list of «10 Things You Can Do Today» to promote dignity and protest destructive sexual paradigms, including simple tasks such as, «Challenge those who make sexist jokes.»

It doesn't rhyme with a body part, doesn't fit too easily into a fat joke, isn't a word for poop or fart, and, as of yet, has no ties to any gay jokes, so what makes people think that kids are going to jump all over it?

He described the «hand of God» reference as a «bad taste joke», adding: «These are light - hearted remarks made to a close colleague, it doesn't mean anything.

We just didn't have them often as kids but my husband had them and wanted to make them when we first got married and when I asked him to teach me how to make them he thought I was joking I just never knew they were so easy!

My brother and I always joke about how even though we follow her recipes exactly our food never tastes as good as when she makes it.

In my short but very intense baking career, I've come to think that whoever coined «Easy as pie,» was making a very cruel joke.

Since I can't see responses I had to make this correction only as a joke not as a mean and vicious troll.

Now, if this were back in the day and my blog was still called Making Love In The Kitchen, and I still got a kick out of referring to my nut milk bag as a My Nut Sack, I might be inclined to crack a few 12 - year - old - boy - jokes about nut cheese.

For future makers — she's not joking when she says this makes a lot so we'll definitely be having this as tacos tomorrow.

Harris added that he formerly made jokes about hot pepper diets, but now, «over the last couple of years, chile peppers have begun to emerge as the nutritional heroes of the future.»

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I find it incredibly short sighted to try and make blanket statements like saying «not gay» should never be used as a joke.