Sentences with phrase «disingenuous on»

To be purposely excluded from a tax measure intended to benefit all public school students is disingenuous on behalf of the board, as it is in essence treating the almost 9,500 students who attend charters schools as second - class citizens and putting their needs on the back burner.

Chris Grayling was disingenuous on today's Any Questions when supporting Kitty Usher and Menzies Campbell in wanting to tamper with one of the cornerstones of the Post Civil war Settlement - he did not tell the audience he was a Catholic in favour of a measure to benefit Catholics - one with constitutional implications (it is the basis of the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland)... that was very disappointing and makes Chris Grayling suspect in a way David Davis was not

Not exact matches

She tends to say little about her marriage beyond that (and after her interview with GQ, which she complained on her Facebook page was an example of the «dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting,» she is not likely to change that practice.)

Social media companies» disingenuous Captain Renault act — he was the character in Casablanca who declared, «I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on here» — must stop.

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.

You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)

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.

Claims by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that NAFTA trade has created millions of jobs «are based on disingenuous accounting, which counts only jobs gained by exports but ignores jobs lost due to growing imports,» he adds.

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.

I believe, based on the way the system was designed and developed by Satoshi, that it would be disingenuous to expect instant transaction confirmation from the Bitcoin network — it is simply not wired that way.

On a 5 p.m. EST conference call with financial analysts and investors to discuss the company's first quarter earnings results, which showed a $ 6 million net loss year over year, Dearborn said that claims by Gannett that Tribune wasn't seriously considering the offer were «misleading and disingenuous.»

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.

First they try to discredit the Gospels and Christian doctrine with a never ending parade of disingenuous books on the bestseller lists, and now they try to pull stunts like this.

is to steamroll over their disingenuous nonsense and carry on with what you are demanding from the U.S. govt.

I am sure they asked the gay members of their association before they put the flag on the billboards... I find this as a reason to take down the billboards disingenuous.

But, as you see, night after night, this disingenuous game is started: «on atheism...» It's ridiculous.

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

Now please stop being disingenuous and let the general populace in on your dirty little secret of math / 2.

To say that, and then on the very next page begin talking about the «influential filmmaker» (p. 127) seems disingenuous.

I realize that on some level you believed that statement would bolster your posiition, it's just that, well, it's simply non factual and disingenuous

Danielle is being disingenuous in part, and she knows that but has put on a good show.

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.

Claiming some sort of super faith which you declare is based on sight is disingenuous at best.

And patting homosexuals on the back acting like nothing is wrong is disingenuous.

Its disingenuous to state you love these people and then ignore the major economic stress it will put on your social services.

The lis de verbis can verge on the self - serving and spurious when it is claimed that advertising serves producers while marketing serves consumers, on the disingenuous grounds that marketing gives people what they already want.

(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.)

By wearing his religion on his sleeve, it seem artificial and disingenuous and ironically making it all about him, not about God.

To focus on one while pretending the other doesn't exist is dishonest and disingenuous.

That might point to compromise on this debt ceiling thing — over which the president is cleverly disingenuous and the Republicans seem confused.

But it's a shaky assumption that just because poor and working - class women are exposed to the lifestyles and tastes of the wealthy they are also susceptible to the neuroses of the wealthy interviewed for the Mothers Movement Online, clinical psychologist Daphne de Marneffe suggests that it's disingenuous to focus so narrowly on wealthy women's «obsession with externals and appearances and competition» and then turn around and ask «Does anyone have an inner life?»

One email chain focused on a man we all assumed was a graduate student who had a habit of walking around mumbling what we assumed to be racist epithets under his breath before flashing a disingenuous smile and skulking away.

I have conversed with many people of faith on many issues but he is the most disingenuous.

This opposition is a low and disingenuous attack on America's loyal muslims by persons with hate in their hearts and an anti-Islamic agenda.

[Voice over announcer] On his quest to always, always be thought of as right, Dalahast has merely succeeds at being thought of as silly and deliberately disingenuous.

One suspects that this is largely because they recognise, on some level, that the sexual anthropology of our culture collapses into incoherence as soon as a little analytical pressure is applied, and so they resist genuine intellectual engagement,short - circuiting the debate by retreating into insults, relativism and disingenuous blather about Catholics wanting a theocracy.

Possibly the most disingenuous and illogical post ever — and that's saying something, on these threads.

To harp that the burden of proof is on the atheist (even though it's foolish in of itself) and then refuse to accept proof provided is super disingenuous, even for you.

@ 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.

About Pete's take on the Benghazi matter: I think is fairly clear in testimony that the Obama Administration did lie, did cover - up what had happened, and was totally disingenuous about the whole thing.

But the film stoops to its lowest level by ending with a disingenuous attack on Benedict XVI: «Months after associating Islam with «things only evil and inhuman,» Benedict XVI reversed reforms of Vatican II to authorize a Good Friday Mass that includes a previous disavowed prayer ¯ for the conversion of Jews.»

why are most of the self - professed xians on this board so obnoxious, incredulous, disingenuous and downright dishonest?

For someone on the science committee, it is disingenuous and pandering to say:

No, momoya, it's about out of control insurance costs going ever higher because more and more is mandated to be covered, it's about tax exempt groups being in effect taxed via mandates and indeed mandated to pay things that go directly contrary to their philosophy, it's about disingenuous mumblers on the left talking incoherently about people being «forced» not to use contraception when (a) no one is forcing them to affiliate with the organization balking at the mandate, (b) no one is preventing them from buying contraception on their own dime and (c) no one is preventing them from buying their own health insurance plans, something MANY will have to do when Obamacare kicks in for real.

The typical response, relying on an erroneous demand that all pieces come together in an immediate «grand paroxyism» is ignorant at best; hopelessly disingenuous at worst (just in case Chad is reading...).

His statement, «Obama won't stop the war on Christianity» is disingenuous, and he's a smart man.

Completely dismissing the harm the British Empire wrought on the world is disingenuous, at best.

the AnViL ™ why are most of the self - professed xians on this board so obnoxious, incredulous, disingenuous and downright dishonest?

If so, any argument about him needing more work on something is disingenuous.