Sentences with phrase «disingenuous for»

It would be disingenuous for liberalizers like me to pretend this couldn't happen — of course it could.

That makes you disingenuous for pretending that she agrees with your preferences.

To me it was disingenuous for the Admiral to speak of the satellite program and data without acknowledging John Christy's presence and work.

It seems somewhat disingenuous for the book's authors to continue assert that there is an ongoing debate regarding whether global warming is caused by humans, and then use pre-1998 references to make this case.

The decision is surprising, and the case seems disingenuous for the credit bureaus.

And it's disingenuous for people in the publishing industry to criticize self - publishing when the big publishing houses offer huge sums of money for the rights to self - published books that they previously rejected but suddenly start making a ton of money as self - published books.

2) It's disingenuous for published authors to wash their hands off and claim that they can't do anything if Publishers price - gouge readers and make readers wait needlessly.

It would be disingenuous for us to use Facebook to promote those reports and other NEPC work.

«I can say that it is profoundly unfair and disingenuous for the unions to go to Albany every year asking for massive increases [in state funding for education] and for them to impose a freeze, which was scheduled to sunset this year.

I just wanted to point out that it's disingenuous for a group to call itself StudentsFirst when part of its platform now includes reducing teacher compensation, in this case, pensions.

While the Center for American Progress has supported weighted student funding, it is disingenuous for the Trump administration to frame this funding as a significant increase to Title I.

With all due respect, the title of this blog post is rather disingenuous for two reasons.

I think it's disingenuous for you to paint him as someone just looking to make a buck, whether or not you agree with him.

It may be better than the alternative, but it's entirely disingenuous for producers and consumers to justify eating grass - fed beef on the essentialist grounds that it was «meant to be» that way.

It would be disingenuous for these politicians to say they will figure out exactly what to do once they win.

It seems disingenuous for a candidate to ask voters to come out and vote for them when the candidate has never voted in a local election themselves.

«It is very disingenuous for Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur after having been a Deputy Minister of Finance, a governor of the Bank of Ghana and a Vice President of a country in charge of Economic Affairs to come and say he does not understand what the «Ghana Beyond Aid» agenda means,» he said.

Unhappy with the claims by the Majority Leader, Muntaka insisted that the motion was competent, adding that «it is most shocking and very disingenuous for the Majority Leader to even imagine that what was done was wrong.»

That's why people get round it, they talk about being disingenuous for instance.

We feel it's outright disingenuous for a blog of this caliber to promulgate such bullshit about how great Tony Avella and Paul Graziano are without so much as mentioning how many times Tony has been caught up in the universe of corruption: from allowing convicted Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin's to throw him lavish fundraisers, «Avella has served Assemblymember McLaughlin faithfully since he took office in 1992, according to City Limits,» to the favor trading with convicted felon Richard Lipsky, right down to supporting anti-Asian racist Sonny Carson not to mention his personal vendetta against young activists.

And it would have been disingenuous for her to change that message.

«While the Independence Party supports a bipartisan slate of candidates, it's disingenuous for divisive Democrats to rant about the IDC's relationship to the Independence Party when Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins not only runs on the line, but donates hundreds of dollars to the Independence Party.

And so I think it's very disingenuous for him to come here and say that this governor is foot dragging when he's only been the governor for 1,000 days.

It's disingenuous for him to make that statement.

It seems disingenuous for the NCAA to rebuke these I [hearts] L.A. practices while it profited from USC's visibility and high TV ratings.

Heidi, I hope you don't think me disingenuous for this, but I'm just off dinner and you came to mind.

While John Lennon and Oprah Winfrey would surely love this «statement of faith», isn't it somewhat disingenuous for someone with your theological education to suggest that this could in any way be considered a New Testament church or that starting an «Open Circle» is «church planting»?

It's disingenuous for Jim Prentice to criticize Rachel Notley for saying it's time to move on from Northern Gateway when he himself had the file for two years and couldn't make any headway.

Not exact matches

Added Dave Gorak, executive director of the Wisconsin - based Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration: «Gingrich's calling Romney's support for «self - deportation» a «fantasy» is disingenuous at best.»

The current board says Segal is the «the architect» of many of DavidsTea's current challenges and labelled his statements that his control would bring a new, objective vision for the company as «disingenuous.»

The takeaway is this, if you don't start with a passion for purpose, your brand will appear disingenuous and have an opposite affect on your growth.

Since the company obviously was aware of what was going on, it was unacceptable and disingenuous to keep people waiting for days.

But for those keeping score, Trump's 100th day arrives this Sunday, April 29, and it would be disingenuous to describe his tenure so far as smooth sailing.

Happily disingenuous T&C s are on borrowed time — at least for European tech users, thanks to a new European Union data protection framework that will come into force next month.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.&raqFor anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.&raqfor the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.&raqfor movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Some of the phrases used, for instance, imply that the people who hold certain beliefs are disingenuous, rather than simply wrong.

They have to be disingenuous in trying to put the cart before the horse; to put an alleged divine «truth» in front of proving the source for it.

Of course, Ms. Crandall adds, «there was probably something disingenuous even at the time in abortion advocates» concern for children.»

He plays his audience for fools, which they must be to listen to such hateful, disingenuous rhetoric.

He has to be disingenuous in trying to put the cart before the horse; to put an alleged divine «truth» in front of proving the source for it.

and bart shouldn't even be included because of his disingenuous book about the variants of the BIble... (he never really gets down to the explicit details of what they are... thus misleading people into thinking the Bible is full of errors - for example... a verse may say «Jesus said to give all your possessions» whereas a VARIANT says «And HE says, give all your possesssions») an extremely low number of variants in the Bibel even change a thing...

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.

I also think that, given that there is current, on - going litigation the call by some for mediation is at worst disingenuous and at best mis - guided as so much has to happen before I personally would feel comfortable sitting across from those that have hurt you and then make myself vulnerable to them once again.

I'm sure there is a case to be made for this type of vouchers, but trying to make historical claims and claims to limitation of educational choice is disingenuous.

But to approach the investigation with the ironclad presupposition that God does not exist, and to maintain that as inflexibly as atheists do despite the necessity of a transcendent cause for the universe, seems a bit disingenuous.

Drop the disingenuous rants and speak of the truth for a change.

Besides, don't you think this all knowing God of yours might see right through your disingenuous and selfish reason for believing?

(I must say, all of these warnings against boasting sound a little disingenuous coming from the guy who, at the end of his list, included an embed code for a «Top 200 Church Blogs» badge so listed bloggers can announce it on their sites.)

I think he is disingenuous in saying «Prime matter, for Aristotle as for Thomas, doesn't exist.»