Sentences with phrase «held in disdain»

Using the old - fashioned method — one that is held in disdain because it uses rote memorization and is not discovered by the student — the boy delivered the correct answer.

It is characteristic of our day that when normative social influence is brought to our attention we generally hold it in disdain.

To hold it in disdain, to set it over against realism, to stigmatize it as incompatible with true Christianity, to proclaim its bankruptcy, is hardly less than a wanton act.

You can disavow and hold in disdain that practice all you want, but you are just as close in relation to the slaughter of millions as most Western Christians are to the Crusades.

We continually allow the Competition Bureau, and the general public to hold us in disdain because of our own actions.

Not exact matches

It has long been thought that Xi and Kim hold each other in disdain.

Just last year, he showed a similar disdain for the award, although he did hold onto it for a bit longer than in the clip above.

The reason for such unanimity is primarily the substantial economic costs associated with taxes on corporations, although the uncertainty as to who really pays such taxes no doubt also contributes to the disdain in which they are generally held by economists.»

We hold no disdain towards those who disagree, but only battle against the trend or reality in area's of the Globe where sharing the Gospel, or living out our Faith publicly is being restricted, or is currently very restricted or illegal.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

The world holds these criminals in utter disdain.

The old - school wrestler detested the direction of theatrical wrestling in the late - 1980s, but moreover he held huge disdain for a culture of steroid and illicit drug use that he saw perverting the sport.

The President said the judiciary was his problem, while the legislature holds the judiciary in disdain, even as lawyers who lose their cases condemn the Bench.

In the pursuit of the gleefully sadistic yet cowardly Scorpio killer, played to perfection by Andy Robinson, Detective Inspector Harry Callahan manages to step on the toes of every one of the bureaucratic superiors he holds in so much disdaiIn the pursuit of the gleefully sadistic yet cowardly Scorpio killer, played to perfection by Andy Robinson, Detective Inspector Harry Callahan manages to step on the toes of every one of the bureaucratic superiors he holds in so much disdaiin so much disdain.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

The long - standing Authors Guild, often scoffed as a proud member of the gatekeepers club and a rather irrelevant entity that has yet to embrace the current publishing climate, released an open letter from one of its board members that holds nothing back in its disdain for the newly formed Authors Alliance.

Though many people hold oatmeal raisin cookies in deep disdain, they remain among the most popular forms of dried fruit.

Obviously, the ZERO isn't going to hold up for long gaming sessions, but for your twitch gaming needs, this is a great little - make that littlest - gamepad, sure to elicit delight rather than disdain from your fellow coffee house customers when you get your game on in public.

And yet, Krebber's disdain for painting could equally be interpreted as a sign of overvaluation of the medium — he holds it in such high esteem that he's afraid of besmirching it through excessive contact.

I do not «hold the readership here in complete disdain».

Some of the world's most powerful belief systems are at odds, some of which openly seek the dissolution of the material world and all things in it, while others hold the exact opposite view; some place a divine premium on achieving the overarching ambitions of the faithful to the extent of utterly disdaining truth or fact, while others hold no regard for the ambitions of any person or people so long as fact is held supreme.

Do you really think that Desmog Blog and «The Borehole Gang» can possibly hold Heartland in greater disdain than they already do??

Though disdaining Wikipedia, the Lawson court itself relied on a private internet website as of 2011, noting it had been «updated June 2010,» for a factual foundation for its legal holding of a rational basis for the federal statute on animal fighting activities.40 Likewise, in the body of its opinion in State v. D.C., 41 the Fifth District cited various websites addressing how HIV can be transmitted.

In terms of the motivation, the alienating parent holds no value at all for the other parent (whether motivated by fears, emptiness, helplessness) and the hatred and disdain are completely overt.

The court stated that in order to demonstrate «stigmatization,» the Challenger must show that his inclusion in the registry held him up to public disdain and damaged his reputation.

James Comey's highly anticipated book A Higher Loyalty reportedly makes no secret of the disdain in which the former FBI director holds the president.