Sentences with phrase «as abhorrent»

In fact, not surprisingly, it found that most Aboriginal men who the inquiry spoke with regarded sexual abuse as abhorrent.

According to a Nikkei profile released in August, which described Konami as an abhorrent workplace, The Phantom Pain was the final project before the company would shift to mobile games.

Jasmine is a horrible person, as demonstrated by every condescending interaction she has with every character she meets, but in Blanchett's hand she is a wounded flower that you can't help with empathize with even as abhorrent as her behavior often is.

We see, perhaps, that our society has conditioned us to view an act as abhorrent which we now realize need not appear objectionable at all.

Seems a bit too close to implying that the only god people should really believe in is the Almighty Dollar... an idea I believe to be just as abhorrent as religion.

We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»

I had often heard «God's ways are not like ours» to describe the problem of eternal torture for temporal sins, but I didn't understand how hell was indicative of a higher way when it was something that struck me as abhorrent.

President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton, has long viewed peace and diplomacy as an abhorrent sign of weakness.

Not exact matches

Harassment is as bad for business as it is morally abhorrent.

Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a CNN interview that he can no longer support Trump, calling his comments «abhorrent» and criticizing his apology as insufficient.

For his part, Travis Kalanick responded by calling the actions Fowler described as «abhorrent & against everything we believe in,» adding that any Uber employee condoning such behaviour would be fired.

You could easily describe any or all of the above as uncivil: beneath us, beneath this place, silly at best, abhorrent at worst.

@TTOO — If you want to see «cheap and mean» you should hear any of fred's various and uniformly abhorrent defenses of child slaughter as depicted in 1 Sam 15:3.

Based upon you description of humanity, we should cease to exist as a species as I doubt the history is clean of any abhorrent act in any surviving family.

Why would he choose something so abhorrent as beating a slave and not even express distaste for the practice, unless he had no issue with the practice.

Both actions are abhorrent, as are you.

Similarly, apologists who would defend such abhorrent depictions of deity behaviors as justifiable deserve the disdain of any reasonable person who accepts empathy as the principal component of any viable moral framework.

As a Child, and then as a parent, this powerful story was abhorrent to mAs a Child, and then as a parent, this powerful story was abhorrent to mas a parent, this powerful story was abhorrent to me.

On the other hand what you say is equally abhorrent if a woman has been sexually assaulted and an institution regards her reporting it as petty.

In deciding what food can be eaten and what is forbidden Muslim jurisprudence accepts as guides the Qur» an, the Hadith, what the Prophet ordered to be killed and what he forbade killing, and the foods which are abhorrent to human feeling.

Since I had, from my initial article, emphasized the element of divine judgment over the nation, quoting the great lines from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address as my central text, I could not but find such an interpretation abhorrent.

However, peddling them to all and sundry as if they were the only possible true option is somewhat abhorrent.

The fact is that * both * religious texts have passages that can be read as justification for abhorrent acts, and so * both * religious traditions have a responsibility to examine and deal with those issues.

You are the poster boy for what I fear with the rise of a group of people who see religious beliefs as idiotic and abhorrent.

This idea would have been abhorrent to the biblical writers if they had thought of it, as of course they could not before — the idea of a universal system of natural law had emerged.

Some religions have historically involved practices, such as ritual prostitution and human sacrifice, which are deeply abhorrent to the Abrahamic faiths.

As a Catholic theologian, I find this situation abhorrent and unworthy of the richness of the Roman Catholic traditions that have nourished me.

«The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me,» Pell told reporters last month as he denied the allegations.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with Grunfeld's abhorrent performance as a GM and the toxic, zero accountability culture that Grunfeld has built and fostered over the last 15 years.

Society seems to be saying that such an abhorrent crime as rape should be shunned and held in contempt rather than be rewarded with the riches and fame that football brings.

Never mind the fact that it's completely abhorrent for a side's future to be indexed to as to how much debt they can run up: so there is a lot to be said for being the only Championship side to have had no debt last season — a position I wouldn't have traded for all the tea in china.

The winner will be the one that doesn't play awfully for the least amount of games, as we have seen main competitors Napoli, Inter, Milan and Fiorentina all have abhorrent performances this season.

So it wasn't to be, as United put in an abhorrent display and continued their nine game winless streak away from home in European Competitions.

Brooks takes this as an opportunity to express her «abhorrent» feelings about the Dowlers.

Recent events in eastern Ukraine, Palestine, and Syria should remind us that there is such a thing as the International Law of Armed Conflict or the International Humanitarian Law, which aims to limit the effects of conflict and protect civilians against the abhorrent nature and terrors of war.

«It is abhorrent that a movement that emerged as a demand to tell the truth is used to obfuscate, divide and attempt to denigrate New York City's progressive agenda».

When my insistence finally overrode his denials, he echoed his online essay that I should deny who I am rather than to engage in an act so abhorrent as to love another man... To me, though, it is undeniable that removing him from the team for reasons unrelated to his scientific knowledge, academic credentials or intellectual capacity was a mistake.»

Jacobs called Maragos» positions «abhorrent» and said Democrats «will reject him the same whether he runs alone or as a part of a ticket.»

The minister for crime prevention told the Guardian: «As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women.

As man became more enlightened, the idea of owning another person became more and more abhorrent.

Ironically, there's been a bit of a backlash in recent days relating to what some regard as Jim's abhorrent decision to manipulate someone else's fate.

These movies are abhorrent and there's a great reason why you won't find them on any classic movie lists; they contribute nothing to the spirit of the season and are about as good as a recent Adam Sandler movie is «good.»

It's a PG - rated film, so nothing gory or truly abhorrent occurs, and you never truly sense that anyone is in real danger for even a moment, which makes it suitable all but the most squeamish of children as a mildly scary and generally amusing escapist adventure.

The movie doesn't so much wallow in the abhorrent side of humanity as it showers, bathes, and dresses in it before heading off to work at MTV.

I didn't think that I'd find a film in 2006 that could actually be as bad as The Benchwarmers, but Little Man manages to deliver an equally abhorrent assault on our senses blow for blow.

The beautifully abhorrent details of the creatures become more and more familiar as the story wears on.

The Board has written that the game was refused classification as one that depicts «matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.»

Observe and Report ranks as one of those kinds of movies that I think will hit only a very small fraction of the viewing audience, and the majority of those who see it will find increasingly abhorrent.

My opinion may come across as biased but the atrocities that these young men faced in the fight for freedom is abhorrent.

The plot's crux involves a loving suburban father (Gerard Butler) who waits 10 years to wage violent retribution against the legal - system players (led by Jamie Foxx as a hotshot assistant district attorney) that let a murderer — the greasy, abhorrent deviant who killed the father's wife and daughter — walk free.