Sentences with phrase «from patronizing»

The well - meaning but entitled white knight may be alive and well in plenty of places, from patronizing politicians to your average rom - com hero; but in a wide - ranging crop of recent movies, he's being thoroughly, effectively knocked off his high horse.

Also, please stick to facts, and refrain from patronizing groups on my posts, no matter what political orientation.

And more than 80 percent said elected officials should not try to discourage people from patronizing such businesses — including the hugely popular chicken chain — the poll found.

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What would entice you to patronize a company, aside from a great product or service?

Ron Cordes used to get patronizing pats on the head from the traditional financial advisors he once worked with.

One of the reasons employees deride internal marketing materials is that they are usually developed from on high and therefore seem out of touch with day - to - day business realities or, even worse, patronizing.

How will you feel if you receive a gift without premonition from a company you patronize?

We know from records that Pell continued to patronize the surf club in the years after 1986 - 87.

Jesus got a version of a patronizing pinch on the cheek and a tussle of the hair from his hometown family, right after sharing His God - given mission with his home community.

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

In a lower pitch, now patronizing Johan, Marianne lectures him to free himself from the past and make a fresh start as she has.

But when you are a business that will take money from anyone who chooses to patronize your restaurant, you may wish to consider the consequences of how you act on those beliefs.

But the patronizing nature of this article, from one lunatic condemning another for having different lunatic beliefs, is just beyond the pale.

So, in short, you can choose to patronize Chick - fil - A without 1) rubbing it in people's faces, 2) crying persecution, and 3) closing your ears to the concerns of others, particularly those from the LGBT community.

Even to propose it as the solution to the racial morass raises derisive hoots in the black community and patronizing shrugs and smiles from whites.»

The group patronized outstanding preachers like Bernard Ochino and Peter Martyr Vermigli who later seceded to Protestantism, and was responsible for the distribution of tens of thousands of copies of the notorious tract Beneficio di Cristo, written by a Cassinese protégé of Pole's, and which incorporated without acknowledgment swathes from the first version of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.

But in all you have as well given more Christians a good reason to support these businesses because they are owned by Christians, and at least those who patronize them before may not change from doing so.

Frankfort also is conscious that he is innovating, and he states the point almost in the terms of my present argument: «Erman... gave... a masterly but patronizing account of weird myth, doctrines, and usages, while the peculiarly religious values which these contained remained hidden from his lucid rationalism....

It is a sport so cruel that its popularity is anything but a credit to those that patronize it, / a number of plump ganders, whose necks are well - greased, are suspended at the regulation height, in much the same manner as rings arranged at ordinary tournaments The «knights» who enlist from the prizes dash out on their horses in courtly fashion and grab each of those down - hanging necks in succession as they pass, the most skillful rider and «puller» winning the prizes.

Try to patronize your local grass - fed and grass - finished meat producers, or order meat on line from high quality companies such as Belcampo Meat Co..

Furthermore, a lot of our clients who patronized our store regularly were purchasing, predominantly, our prepared foods, juices, and smoothies made from these conventional coconuts.

But most of theses are animals are bred for sport which isn't different from owning an abattoir where we all are happy to patronize, I really doubt animals are happy to be killed in any case, field or slaughterhouse.

It's the deepest field of the year, with no large chunks reserved for open qualifiers or teaching pros, and whether it's the money or its import to the Tour, the best players from all over the world continue to patronize the event.

The fact that he is passionate and comes from South America had nothing to do with it and yet our highly educated, grossly overpaid manager assumed we would buy such condescending and patronizing crap!

The most thing that hurts is its coming from our beloved manager, who we adore and have always supported... I'm not an expert in football but this is just getting to the point of patronizing us loyal supporters.

Maternity Store — Mothercare Stops A Mom From Public Breastfeeding In an unbelievable but true and unfortunately quite common incident, UK's famous store for moms, babies and kids stopped a mom from publicly breastfeeding her baby in their store.The mother in question, Zoe Frangou was disgusted by the treatment meted out to her in a store at Bluewater, Kent and was afterwards patronized by the complaints department.Zoe Frangou posted on Mothercare's Facebook page about the incident, which occurred in SeptemberFrom Public Breastfeeding In an unbelievable but true and unfortunately quite common incident, UK's famous store for moms, babies and kids stopped a mom from publicly breastfeeding her baby in their store.The mother in question, Zoe Frangou was disgusted by the treatment meted out to her in a store at Bluewater, Kent and was afterwards patronized by the complaints department.Zoe Frangou posted on Mothercare's Facebook page about the incident, which occurred in Septemberfrom publicly breastfeeding her baby in their store.The mother in question, Zoe Frangou was disgusted by the treatment meted out to her in a store at Bluewater, Kent and was afterwards patronized by the complaints department.Zoe Frangou posted on Mothercare's Facebook page about the incident, which occurred in September....

For the sake of your own sanity, though, let me tell you that the Go Diaper Free handbook remains one of my favorite baby gear purchases I have ever made - and I'm so crunchy that I never buy books if I can help it, as I prefer to patronize my local library — so take it from me that it's a worthy purchase!

But what I am suggesting is that whether you're out and about today on «Black Friday» or cruising the Net on «Cyber Monday,» you can choose to make a difference with your purchases by patronizing those companies that help us to go green — either by saving energy, using organic farming methods, or insisting on recycled paper from well managed forests.

«America decided to flood Japanese markets with their rice but the Japanese never banned them rather expressed their disapproval by not patronizing the products from the US.

This is expected to be patronized by some 7000 plus persons from all walks of life and would commence from noon to sunset.

Ferraro, who represented Forest Hills and parts of western Queens for six years in the House, lived in the same Forest Hills Gardens house from the beginning of her congressional career in 1978 until the early 2000s, and patronized the restaurant belonging to lifelong friends the Abbracciamento family.

Wall Spitzer famously stood beside her husband in 2008 when he admitted to patronizing prostitutes and resigned from office.

A local group of activists called «Save North Cove» issued a statement Tuesday saying authority chairman Dennis Mehiel should recuse himself from the vote because he has patronized marinas run by Farkas's company.

Comprised of interviews with finance types, individuals involved in the escort business, as well as Spitzer himself, Gibney's film traces the former New York Governor's career from his start as an attorney general determined to take down corruption on Wall Street, to his status as a political joke after he was forced to resign for patronizing the Emperor's Club VIP escort service.

In this excerpt from Scott Stringer's availability he answers questions from Josh Robin of NY1 and Marcia Kramer of WCBS - TV concerning Stringer's initial pledge to not discuss Spitzer's «personal life» and his more recent move to focus on Spitzer's patronizing of prostitutes five years ago.

If you vacation at a reef resort, patronize businesses that manage the reefs responsibly (ask about the groups» eco policies), and don't buy souvenirs plundered from the reef ecosystem.

«The fact that an opinion is religiously based is no reason to exclude it from policy discussions,» he said, «but neither is it reason to patronize it.»

This was understandable from his perspective because he paid me out of his grant, but I felt patronized given the level of independence I had experienced during my Ph.D..

Try to patronize your local grass - fed and grass - finished meat producers, or order meat on line from high quality companies such as Belcampo Meat Co..

Of course, it has had its share of protests as well, from people who find this type of thing completely wrong; but, if you do not approve of the online dating website, then don't join it, or patronize their business.Ashley Madisonis for people who are serious in having an «extra-marital affair» with their partner.

«Brimstone & Glory's» greatest grace comes from its subjects, whom Jakovleski neither patronizes nor fetishizes.

It's up to individual viewers to decide the present - day relevance of a story in which a touchy, overweening president can be heard going after a newspaper he deems a personal enemy — «The Post» includes snippets from the actual Nixon tapes — or in which a working woman encounters endless, patronizing slights and condescension, only to come into her own with admirable, self - effacing resolve.

It's a shame, because the subject of our literally and figuratively eating shit to maintain a certain lifestyle deserves to find articulation from mouthpieces more articulate than Linklater, Linklater favourite son Ethan Hawke, Bruce Willis, and Kris Kristofferson (performing the same function as Sam Elliot in the ultimately - as - useless but at least wry Thank You For Smoking), oozing onto the screen and slinking off to the beat of Linklater's patronizing compositions and interpolated cross-cutting of burger exec Don (Greg Kinnear) watching porn in his posh hotel room and a dozen Mexican nationals sharing a motor - inn bunk while waiting to perform their ten - dollar - an - hour dream jobs.

That expectation is blind and patronizing when coming from racist and bigoted sources.

Shot in the northern state of Rajasthan, it's not even that the film is patronizing to the Indian locations and culture — it just sort of ignores them, aside from background colors, boisterous parties and funny cab rides.

From the group's parting of ways at various pubs to their dodgy encounters with blanks, not to mention the clever titling of the pubs the five friends patronize, all of this informs viewers what they are going to see, even if they don't know it yet.

Parker doesn't approach his films from a level place, in other words, either being condescending towards the United States that he hates or being patronizing and disingenuous towards the European ghettos that he loves.

Movie stars have tamed sassy kids in movies from «The Blackboard Jungle» to «Stand and Deliver,» but it's hard to remember an example more patronizing or sentimentalized than this one.

The interplay between Coogan and Dench makes the film, as their rapport can swing from funny to patronizing to standoffish in a matter of seconds.

The Vanishing), what emerges from this studio remake is a frightened, sometimes patronizing, and ultimately ineffectual thriller that transforms all the controversy and introspection of the original into something rote and predictable.