Sentences with phrase «in patronizing»

There are clearly lots of people who are very invested in making the law seem more complex and difficult than it really is, and these are often the same people who tend to infantilize the public and speak in patronizing tones about how we must protect people from poorly trained lawyers and that the best way to do that is to regulate legal education — hence, the ABA's ridiculous accreditation requirements.

In patronizing students and faculty — unbelievably enough — for «taking the high road,» the administration fails to acknowledge the reality of their failed charge.

But usually in a patronizing way.

Nevertheless, this doesn't imply that this company deals in patronizing the financial services provided by the lenders.

We have seen courses telling learners, in a patronizing tone, that they have got their responses wrong.

And yet it manages to play in the same obnoxious space as The Blind Side, only instead of a far right pat - on - the - back in is all lefty in its patronizing.

Indeed, even the governor has been accused of talking in a patronizing manner in December to a female reporter in Albany.

It also does no credit to whatever agenda the appointing authority which is also contesting this presidential election had in mind in patronizing her to the important and critical office of impartiality as Electoral Commissioner under the Constitution.

Doing bad research to glean a poor insight, and then executing it in a patronizing way is still bad marketing.

Ecclesia semper reformanda is neither a new discovery nor a passing phase: If we sometimes speak in patronizing tones of the Tridentine era, then our descendants will be equally justified in shaking their heads over the euphoric triumphalism of the present time, our happy self - congratulation, our certainty that we in this generation had broken through at last to true wisdom.

Someone who patted me on the head in a patronizing manner when I got angry because my poor little brain would never understand how great and mighty he was.

In his patronizing dismissal of abstinence programs, Saletan speaks of «mating» ¯ meaning sexual intimacy ¯ as an unstoppable force of nature.

Not exact matches

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

Above all else, encourage a program of patronizing your local bookstore, supermarket, shoe store, you name it, in the interest of maintaining the life of your community, even at some expense.

But, taking it a giant step forward, such leaders should especially prevail in male - dominated, female - patronizing work cultures that don't fully recognize or value the contributions of their female peers and colleagues.

Some customers patronize the store every two or three months; some of the very top spenders come in three to five times a week.

But, take a minute to think about this: What if you're coming off as that patronizing person in your office?

A few years ago, a pro-democracy legislator was arrested in Guangdong for «patronizing» a prostitute.

Her ever - present Moleskine notebook in her lap, she looked like a student taking notes in class and was sometimes shouted over and patronized by the older men on the panel.

This book laid the foundation of «servant leadership» that has had a major influence on the church but in many ways I found the book condescending and patronizing rather than empowering.

Their customers are eating out, traveling, investing in their homes with home and garden improvements, or otherwise actively patronizing the small businesses in their area.

A Westport man pleaded guilty Friday to patronizing a trafficked person in a case related to an alleged sex ring involving troubled young men.

No one wants to purchase a business on the assumption that current customers will continue to patronize the business only to have the previous owner immediately join a competitor or open a similar business in the same area.

Even if the governor is only patronizing downstate voters, he isn't doing Chicago — or Illinois — any good by saying he'll help Missouri land Amazon's second HQ in St. Louis.

Devoted to patronizing locally owned brick - and - mortar businesses, it's been growing in popularity over the last seven years.

In order to get client, you have to build a good reputation so that people will patronize you.

Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group's chief operating officer, said in a press conference last week that he hopes the 11.11 sale will become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years as Alibaba's e-commerce ecosystem, once largely confined within China's borders, continues to expand internationally through collaboration with more governments, banks and postal services in order to give shoppers everywhere a seamless, «local» e-commerce experience — no matter where the merchants they patronize are located.

By patronizing locally owned shops in your town, you keep those dollars — and your tax dollars — here.

But generalizing, patronizing, bragging and name calling is in itself uncivilized, ignorant, immature, and divisive... the very things you detest, right?

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

Because not only was he mostly unnoticed and thought a weirdo and a nerd in high school, he still goes through life that way; awkward, patronized, not the center of any group.

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

In a bold move, Jesus spurned the patronizing language of that crowd of hometown locals, and in response, they try to throw him off a clifIn a bold move, Jesus spurned the patronizing language of that crowd of hometown locals, and in response, they try to throw him off a clifin response, they try to throw him off a cliff!

In July the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) adopted a resolution asking members of the denomination not to patronize the directories, declaring that they are «divisive among Christians» and «discriminatory in relation to the Jewish community.&raquIn July the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) adopted a resolution asking members of the denomination not to patronize the directories, declaring that they are «divisive among Christians» and «discriminatory in relation to the Jewish community.&raquin the U.S. (Southern) adopted a resolution asking members of the denomination not to patronize the directories, declaring that they are «divisive among Christians» and «discriminatory in relation to the Jewish community.&raquin relation to the Jewish community.»

In the square, I am silenced; at school, mocked; in business, fined; at entertainment, derided; in the home, patronized; at work, muffleIn the square, I am silenced; at school, mocked; in business, fined; at entertainment, derided; in the home, patronized; at work, mufflein business, fined; at entertainment, derided; in the home, patronized; at work, mufflein the home, patronized; at work, muffled.

BAC termed integration a failure and viewed as «patronizing» any provisions for white representation in the spending of these funds, or any fiscal accountability.

I am disappointed in my generational peers who look back upon «the»60s» with patronizing scorn, as if we ought to be a little embarrassed for having dreamed those dreams.

Perhaps this show is indicative that it is much, MUCH easier to ignore the elephant in the room and just paint a pleasant, shallow, and very patronizing picture to show non-muslims.

The religious are infinitely patronizing in their attempts to control and brainwash others.

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

For example, in its November 1982 feature on «Living Longer, Living Better, Newsweek notes that «the wisdom of the elders is more often honored than consulted, and the patronizing compliments they are paid can betray a subtle bias.

I am a woman in a church and a society that patronize women with reminders of how far we have come and of how much we have been given.

As you say you have a degree in World Religions and the History of Science and a postgraduate degree in Representation and Modernity ---------- I just have an associates degree in Church leadership ------ so you misunderstand my lack of education and my ablities to present my views clearly, compared to your abilities, as patronizing -------------- No TIGGY, what I just said THAT IS PATROpatronizing -------------- No TIGGY, what I just said THAT IS PATRONIZINGPATRONIZING you.

Always at risk of patronizing (I'm an old guy, «presbyter»): I'm impressed with your experience and efforts in articulating and clarifying it.

The Pope's appeal to young people lies in a reluctance to patronize them, and in a reluctance to alter or compromise one iota of the Apostolic Faith handed down to us.

The dismissal of African objections to homosexuality as not indigenous but as «echoes of Western missionary positions» is rather symptomatic of the condescending and patronizing attitudes I pointed out in my article.

Except the term is used embraced by ex-catholics and we use it because the church and other catholics try and deal with us like Marines as in «once a Catholic, always a Catholic», a phrase that is patronizing and far more offensive.

I wasn't trying to be patronizing in any sense when I suggested that the community is growing in grace and maturity....

By the nineteenth century, however, patronized religious painting had become essentially trivialized, as John W. Dixon, Jr., indicates in his book, Nature and Grace in Art (University of North Carolina Press, 1964).

He unfairly patronizes the humble believers who believe in Indulgences for the Holy Souls.