Sentences with phrase «disingenuous attempts»

Instead of his condescending attitude and disingenuous attempts to paper over the cracks later, he would do well to reassess his own capabilities and check his work before going public with it.

What comes through loud and clear (despite his disingenuous attempts to suggest otherwise: «I know killing cats is not for everyone.

The statement described the act as «disingenuous attempts to...

The BBC has dismissed alleged government proposals that could force it to disclose the pay packages of all presenters and performers earning more than # 150,000 a year, describing it as a disingenuous attempts to «satisfy public intrigue».

Or was it a disingenuous attempt to lump one modern thing (clinic bombings) with a bunch of others century old things, and consider them all equivalent.

It's a disingenuous attempt to score points on a highly polarized scientific issue.

Again this is a disingenuous attempt at deflection.

More likely it is a knowing and disingenuous attempt to impede the regulatory process.

Not exact matches

When you attempt to sweep real issues under a rug of disingenuous and delusional positive thinking to create a Utopian version of reality, it keeps you from accurately assessing situations, making smart decisions and taking effective action.

But to suggest that PE is evolution's attempt to address some wholesale absence of transitional fossils is nothing more than a disingenuous misrepresentation as was the clear attempt in Strobel's book.

Your call for grace in this instance bears a striking resemblance to Doug Pagitt's call for generosity, and both smack of disingenuous concern for the greater good meant to disguise your attempts to cover your friend's ass.

Your attempt to discredit by referencing Monsignor Lemaître is disingenuous, who was a devoted Roman Catholic but he was against mixing science with religion... One must wonder why the Monsignor could not reconcile the two...

It is not a trial nor a witch hunt and any attempt to paint is as such is disingenuous at best.

Even in the less used or secondary definitions that refer to atheism as an absence of belief... it is quite disingenuous to attempt to include ignorance of the concept of god into the intent of the definition.

In their attempts to explain the Silence of God during this age, they have fed their own bellies and explained a disingenuous christianity at best, and at worst have techniqued their way into the wallets of a generous but misled public.

@ observer: 1) if saying «i disagree with your position» means a group of people are going to attempt to get you fired, it is disingenuous to claim one is «free to speak» — especially when the company for which one works supposedly has NO stance on the issue.

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

The attempt therefore by Eugene Arhin to create the impression of scarcity and use same as a pretext to justify the unwarranted falsehood about missing vehicles belonging to the Presidency is disingenuous and unbecoming of a public official whose actions must be guided by integrity and candour.

«To suggest that because the transfer of ownership from the federal government to Mr. Banire is yet to be finalized makes him a mere tenant on the property he has acquired is not only disingenuous but is an attempt that is subtly fraudulent.

It would be disingenuous to pretend the reforms aren't based on election politics — an attempt to woo disillusioned baby boomers or those leaning towards Ukip back into the Tory fold.

Their petty attempts to get publicity two days before the Primary are disingenuous, as is their overt politicking on September 11th.»

The Feb. 11 resolution went on to say that the legislators felt that part of the SAFE Act was «thoughtful,» in its attempt to «reduce instances of gun violence involving New Yorkers,» but that they believed other aspects of the act were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.»

Naturally it will all resolve itself in a flurry of tears, hugs and revelations — perhaps an attempt, as disingenuous as it is unsuccessful, to reinstate the sweet, reconciliatory spirit of Beatrix Potter after an hour - and - a-half's worth of «Looney Tunes» - style pratfalls and incongruous pop songs.

Another ill - conceived mish - mash of puerile humor and disingenuous sap from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company, «Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star» features David Spade as a Hollywood has - been trying to recapture the childhood he never had in an attempt to win a comeback role as a «normal guy.»

Teachers who attempt to manufacture enthusiasm out of a limited energy store can appear to be disingenuous in their enthusiasm, which can breed some cynicism in the students.

In a stinging rebuke, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's «disingenuous» attempt to use a decades - old desegregation lawsuit to curb or control Louisiana's voucher program for low - income students assigned to failing district schools.

Foreign maker press releases, like this one from Toyota, attempt to generate US pre-release «green buzz» a year ahead of US introduction with disingenuous translations.

The entire staff at Skylight Books in California weighed in, «This offer seems clearly disingenuous and is obviously a Trojan Horse style attempt to gain access to our customers.

While their decision to attempt to become «No Kill» is the correct one to suggest it is easy and can happen over night is disingenuous and an insult to all the hard working people who are where the rubber meets the road everyday.

But now there's so many literal copycat accounts out there, doesn't it say something disingenuous about human owners who attempt to turn their cats into social media stars — especially if it seems like the goal is to make money off them?

What has gone wrong is that a small group of disingenuous individuals have attempted to subvert the scientific process, some may argue as a result of political influence and funding from vested interests (renewables).

Of course, it's somewhat disingenuous of you to attempt to compare your disagreement with Monckton to your ongoing disagreements with actual mainstream climate scientists or their supporters.

When you use disingenuous methods to attempt to show that 97 % of people believe the world has warmed — of which I find Very few people who do not agree with this.

Rather, the report's comment was directed at an overly simplified and artistic depiction of the hockey stick that was reproduced on the frontispiece of the World Meteorological Organization's Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 1999.41 Dr. Mann did not create this depiction, and the attempt to suggest that this report suggested an effort by Dr. Mann to mislead is disingenuous.

To cover up this major failure of the AGW hypothesis, they usually attempt excited hand - waving to distract the gullible, including: the disingenuous, circular logic claim that it must exist because the models predict it, thus the measurements must be wrong; or the amazing claim that the hotspot exists but it just doesn't reveal itself to humans (really, trust us, it's hiding).

Any attempt to ascribe certainty is either ignorant or disingenuous.

Oh Zeke, your attempts to justify your «adjustments» but completely ignoring the most obvious bias, UHI effect, tells me you are being rather disingenuous with your protestations that everything is OK with the data.

This is totally transparent, and attempts to make it appear otherwise are disingenuous.

But if you're going to attempt to explain away the continued slide in iPhone sales, not mentioning Apple's three - year - old iPhone 7 design is oblivious at best and disingenuous at worst.

One of the issues that comes with simply saying «I'm sorry» or any other phrase that becomes common within a relationship, is that, in its commonality, we begin to experience it as disingenuous and an attempt to appease rather than nurture.