Sentences with phrase «fig leaf used»

Like you've said, science is the fig leaf used to justify whatever the person [s] is / are using it for.

The problem, of course, is that such folly clothes us no better than the fig leaves used in Eden.

Not exact matches

Sorrell said: «Privacy is used as a fig leaf not to do things.

First, make sure the «when in Rome» argument isn't just being used as a fig leaf to cover up what is really an appeal to convenience.

«It's still sad because you're trying to market this bill as something that's going to help families, using the child tax credit as a fig leaf, and even within the fig leaf you're hurting children.»

If they found that organizing «used» the churches or put a religious fig leaf over a secular political agenda, they would desert the organizing projects.

FWIW, with apologies to Mary Ellen Mayo... Adam and Eve, when they disobeyed God and lost their covering, used fig leaves to cover themselves.

Was able to use the toasted almonds and leave out the parmesan and figs.

I couldn't fit all of the roasted almond butter into the tupperware I'd planned to use, so I left it in the vitamix and added a few of the dates and figs you sent back with me, unsweetened cocoa powder, oats, unsweetened coconut shreds, vanilla and walnuts.

They use national debt as a fig - leaf for shrink - the - state fundaments.

You write that Scott used science as a «moralistic fig leaf».

If you use an unripened banana and still crave a touch more sweetness, add a few dates, figs or even two stevia leaves from the garden!

Conventional treatment uses medicines and insulin shots as a way to bring high blood sugar «under control», but researchers from Spain suggest fig leaves as a natural remedy.

Keep in mind, that people with diabetes need to use fig leaves strictly under a doctor's supervision.

One evening at work, Adam spies another student preparing to deface a statue — Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), a beautiful art major who is offended by a fig leaf that's been used to «censor» a statue of a nude male, and is prepared to replace the disguised member with spray paint.

It is, of course, the judo - like practice of using terms that are appealing to an audience as fig leaves for practices that the same audience would find repugnant — turning one's own language against one's interests, you might say.

But it would examine each case based on its own facts, rather than using the fig leaf of «civil rights» as an excuse for Washington to micromanage America's 100,000 public schools.

On Australian TV, 3 days ago, Michael Mann stated that:» 1000 y ago, the PLANET was warmer by 1C» He is using what the Fake Skeptics promote, to cover up his shame = that makes half of the commenters on this blog (the fake Skeptics) to be» Mann's fig leafs»....

As, however, the extent of Government cuts becomes apparent, the same activists are worried that their involvement is being used as a fig leaf for gutting essential services.

Renewables should be used to reduce our fossil fuel consumption, not to provide a green fig leaf for new fossil capacity.

Use a fig leaf instead if you can find one.

-LSB-...] our fiddle leaf fig hasn't been used for «target practice» yet We made the one in our hallway, (see how we made it by clicking here) but this one was a lucky Homegoods find.