Sentences with phrase «emasculated at»

And the ACA isn't really that helpful in that regard, because it was so emasculated at the outset.

This is one of those common phrases that manages to be both sexist and emasculating at the same time.

Not exact matches

In the face of an obstructionist opposition, the Obama administration is practically emasculated until at least the election next November.

Yet the fact of his skin color emasculates him before lesser men, who can deny him a room, a meal at a restaurant, a place on the field.

A pathetic emasculated display against Germany has left the country bewildered and angry at the limp - wristed performance that undersold all that we love about the Premiership.

Not one man felt slighted or taken aback or indicated in any way that he felt emasculated or that I was too forward or unladylike (I can be, but let's not go there...) And in my recent romantic relationships, I always paid my half unless I was being treated or I did the treating because that's what we wanted to do at the time,

«We know that the unrelenting assault is aimed at silencing strong dissenting voices, emasculate the legislature and prevent it from playing its constitutional duties of checking the excesses and impunity of the executive arm.

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

And so into the wilds of the Midwest they go — which, as shown here, really is a wilderness, where the best job Tom can find is sandwich maker at a local deli and, aided and abetted by a similarly emasculated «faculty husband,» he regresses into a neo-primitive, hunter - gatherer state, complete with mutton chops and crossbow.

The result is either a wonderfully Expressionistic, abstract look at the nature of the rapidly emasculating man set against the road - trip atmosphere of the American 70s, or a sweet horror movie about man vs. truck, however you want to look at it!

Carl's getting squeezed at work as well, where his boss Bob (Michael Douglas), who also happens to be Molly's father, systematically emasculates Carl in every imaginable way.

Emasculated teachers» unions can still play a major role in negotiating work rules and personnel practices at the local level, as well as influencing local school board elections where voter turnout is often low.

The interpretation at first instance both «emasculated» and «rewrote» the right granted.

To forbid this most rudimentary inquiry at the threshold is effectively to emasculate the right of cross-examination itself.»

Whether this is viewed as a backward step, emasculating the social goal behind DDA 1995 or as (in the economists» language at a time of recession and falling share values) a necessary «correction» to a situation that had got out of hand depends on one's viewpoint.

Not one man felt slighted or taken aback or indicated in any way that he felt emasculated or that I was too forward or unladylike (I can be, but let's not go there...) And in my recent romantic relationships, I always paid my half unless I was being treated or I did the treating because that's what we wanted to do at the time,