Sentences with phrase «invited ridicule»

Although the parents testified in Court that their choice of the name Spatule referred to a beautiful bird and not the kitchen instrument, the Court granted the Registrar's Motion, holding that most people would immediately think of a spatula in the usual sense, and therefore the name invited ridicule.

But since the link didn't contain any explanation, it failed to inform viewers and invited ridicule.

That he did not appear to do so invites ridicule and scorn.

leaving aside the judge's decision — why would any parent want to burden their child with a name that will invite ridicule for the rest of his life?

In Quebec, the Registrar of Civil Status can ask parents to change a child's name if they fear it might invite ridicule.

It's a divisive, difficult film that practically invites ridicule, but you get the feeling, triumphantly, that

People of all faiths should be able to agree that this is an insulting excuse for a contemporary film that invites ridicule above all else.

I think they would invite ridicule, but calling them ridiculous may have been too harsh.

Rule # 189 — Docketing «twittering» to client development is sure to invite ridicule.

Where the name chosen by the father and mother contains an odd compound surname or odd given names which clearly invite ridicule or may discredit the child, the registrar of civil status may suggest to the parents that they change the child's name.

Not exact matches

An evangelically centered Church, attuned to the Spirit and the times, will thus choose its bishops from among those men who have demonstrated a capacity to mount a countercultural witness by inviting people into friendship with the Lord Jesus — and it will do so knowing that it is calling these men to various forms of martyrdom, of which opprobrium and ridicule are often the least of what may be expected.

Johnny Miller, making his 2018 season debut Saturday on NBC's golf coverage, invited ire and ridicule when he trotted out his tired anti-workout rant during Rory McIlroy's third round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Sending your child to school with a ridiculous haircut is likely to invite public ridicule from peers.

It also means that poor attempts will invite even more ridicule than they already get (I'm talking to you, Kenneth Cole!).

As Jerry on NBC's «Parks & Recreation,» Jim O'Heir was the butt of every joke, a lumpen Midwesterner who absorbed ridicule with a genial earnestness that only invited more of it.

Sending your child to school with a ridiculous haircut is likely to invite public ridicule from peers.