Sentences with phrase «disingenuous when»

Sorry, but Jay Thompson of Zillow is being disingenuous when he tells brokers in effect to make lemonade from the lemons his Web site gives us («What's Your Data Source?»

I am more worried about appearing either a) overqualified when I apply to an appropriate job or b) disingenuous when more details come out later.

I think Mr. Grech is being a touch disingenuous when he dismisses ethical concerns with «managing conflicts was already routine for lawyers and no different than in other organisations.»

, but the health impact on the people of Porter Ranch demonstrates two important things: first, SoCalGas, whose response to the leak has been active but conservative, is disingenuous when it comes to the threat the leak creates to local residents; second, for those who still remain unconvinced that climate change is an issue that must be addressed, how do you feel about toxic gases in populated areas?

It's a bit disingenuous when the difference between how English Common Law is employed vs Sharia Law, we only kill you if you committed murder, as opposed to Sharia which doesn't, for instance.

The EU's support for a 1.5 C upper temperature rise limit is disingenuous when it is not committing to more action.

So the claim that «Scientists expect this [i.e., disingenuousness] and know that reviewers may need to be disingenuous when talking publicly about a paper they have reviewed» is nonsense.

Otherwise, you'll come across as disingenuous when you end up asking total strangers to buy / review your work.

Car - makers can be a bit disingenuous when it comes to entry - level models.

Jean, I really enjoyed seeing your work style / professional wear in the past, but isn't it sort of disingenuous when your blog isn't really focused on that anymore?

I think it's a little disingenuous when your guy makes it pretty clear over and over that he's a christian and believes in God and Jesus, to say he doesn't just because you'd have to admit that all the mocking you've done of republicans for their belief in God applies to your hero as well.

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».

Not exact matches

When tasked with translating someone whose words they find reprehensible, translators can feel inauthentic, disingenuous and duplicitous.

When a company is disingenuous or outright lies, it risks losing the trust of its followers.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

David — because it's seems disingenuous (to me at least) to say that this isn't about a divorce when the entire narrative context is in fact about a divorce.

But instead of supporting your views you cry persecution when confronted... just dishonest and disingenuous.

So, when I am in the presence of people who would have me believe that their whole life is puppy dog kisses and butterfly wings, that are all «Jesus» this & «glory» that, who would have me believe that there is not an ounce of doubt in their soul, I should know that they are being disingenuous because even Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, son of God had doubt.

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.

No one wants to take the whole thing down but to say some type of redistribution isn't necessary when you have a system that allows that type of greed to exist seems disingenuous at best,.

Also, isn't it a bit disingenuous to ridicule a religion because it's different from «mainstream Christianity» when the religions that make up «mainstream Christianity» differ from each other?

When the writings of Wallis and other evangelicals long associated with the Christian left (yes, there was an organization called «Evangelicals for McGovern») are offered up as a «radical biblical way that transcends the highly politicized agendas» of the Christian right and the PC left, one can't help but think that the whole thing is more than a little disingenuous.

@ 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.

So I have come to realize that most of the time when a a question is presented as an answer it is most likely disingenuous in masquerading as a question to begin with and the intent is really to stop questions rather than engage them.

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.

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).

That is why when you talk of «RVP Cesc Nasri Song Denilson Adebayor Diaby» and the inability to build a squad you are being a little disingenuous — you know the reason and you know it was AW having to juggle the minimal resources, qualify for UCL and all the time knowing he was not able to build off a solid foundation.

So yeah, I admit that I started off this season low key pulling for the kid to play well enough that some of those disingenuous folks would have to eat a big shut - the - fuck - up sandwich when it was all said and done.

When he tries to erase the page with a pencil completely lacking an eraser and inevitably rips the page, console him with a disingenuous «There, there.»

Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous, and makes mothers, mothers COMMITTED to breastfeeding, who are doing EVERYTHING they're told by the people who are supposed to be helping, feel like they are failures when they experience the TOTALLY NORMAL pain and are informed that if they were doing a better job, it wouldn't happen.

It seems disingenuous to be concerned about contamination of breastmilk, when it is well documented that artificial feeding carries significant risks for babies and that formula is often found to be contaminated with chemicals and pathogens.

Yes, it does matter when you make such comparisons especially when you are trying to make the case that someone else is being disingenuous with their statistics.

Now, most moms absolutely aren't like this, but I think it's disingenuous to pretend it doesn't happen and isn't challenging when trying to make new friends.

«I don't always see eye to eye with the Treasury, but it is disingenuous to blame them, when the problem was always in my experience at the very heart of the DWP.

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.

«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.

«For the governor to be so disingenuous to go for campaign finance reform when his average contribution is $ 25,000,» Astorino said.

... It is disingenuous to suggest that salary and benefit increases can't be covered within such an increase when state agencies have been absorbing such expenses within flat budgets since 2012.»

The trouble is when Cuomo comes off as disingenuous.

«I think it's disingenuous to some of those in the Democratic conference who had every opportunity when they were in the majority to pass this bill, to get 32 votes, and it would have been the law right now,» Klein said.

We will abide by all customs union and single market rules, with the government using it's disingenuous formulation of «full membership» to pretend something has changed there, when in fact it has not.

When Clinton told me during a CapTon interview that Sanders opposed the Paris climate change agreement, she was being disingenuous.

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.

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

Even when I key a short blog post, I still get pretty disingenuous comments, so I suppose the length of my posts matters not.

Peter Berg's Patriots Day earned solid reviews when it hit theaters last year, but the way that movie invented a single character who appeared at all of the major turning points of the 2013 Boston bombing struck me as disingenuous.

It would be disingenuous to say that Norman Jewison's sweat - dappled southern policier gains a chilling relevance at a time when then the White House is being populated with white supremacist yahoos, because the film's power was evident long prior to the world going very wrong indeed.