Sentences with phrase «by apologists who»

Report authors, Prof Peterson, Eric Hanushek at Stanford University and Ludger Woessmann at the University of Munich, wrote in Education Next magazine: «Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.»

Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.

That BS was cooked up by apologists who were trying to explain away why things would have changed.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

Not exact matches

Are you insane or another one of these apologists for the Catholic church, who for DECADES did nothing to address the many issues reported to them by members of their congregations.

There was a long, long list of Christian apologists who were leaders of their congregations for the bombings and murders by Eric Robert Rudolph.

In the light of the fact that Jesus (or the apologist Justin, for that matter) was killed by Rome, we must ask, Who made the greatest compromise, the church or its new Roman patron?

In fact, the radical consequences for domestic issues of this growing black international consciousness — usually dubbed anti-Americanism by the vulgar right — frightens the new black conservatives, who find themselves viewed in many black communities as mere apologists for pernicious U.S. foreign policies.

As explained by my brother apologists in earlier comments here, it is a mistake to apply the passage in Mark to believers who are not direct witnesses to the risen Christ and not present at the time of Pentecost.

Hence we find the apologist Justin, for example, declaring» scarcely a century after Jesus» that «those who, before Christ, led a life accompanied by reason are Christians, even if they were known as atheists.

Imagine an American citizen who, bankrolled by millions of dollars from the Soviet Union, spent his entire life as an apologist for Communist oppression, including Stalin's murder of many millions by planned famine and the terror of the gulag archipelago.

Decisions are not made by Parliament but by «clowns pretending to be ministers» who are just «apologists for the quango state», whilst 7 out of 10 MPs effectively have a «job for life» because of an electoral system which allows the party hierarchy to award to the most supine and obedient of its members with safe seats.

The makers of this splendid film are also helped along by the fact that this is really an old - fashioned courtroom saga, a dramatisation of the real life legal battle between David Irving (the infamous Hitler apologist) and respected historian Deborah E. Lipstadt, who ripped Irving a new one and labeled him a «denier» in her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust.

The true - to - life story centers on the libel trial of American professor Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), who is sued by the British Hitler apologist David Irving (Timothy Spall) after she publishes a book that calls him a Holocaust denier.

The story is complex, but basically, Hale's piece describes how she felt harassed by a book reviewer named Blythe Harris, who was allegedly contacting positive reviewers of her book No One Else Can Have You to say that the novel promotes slut - shaming and rape apologists.

Fittingly, my comments section for the aforementioned post was visited by one such apologist who shared his thoughts and personal rationalization for the acceptance of pay - to - win.

An alternative label, «Action Painting», was coined in 1952 by Harold Rosenberg (1906 - 78) who, along with Clement Greenberg (1909 - 94), was the most influential critic and apologist of the new movement, which became known also as «The New York School.»