Sentences with phrase «looks with suspicion»

The law does not prohibit such transactions, but it looks with suspicion on them based on the inherent conflicts of interest.

They look with suspicion on those colleagues who stray too far outside their speciality.

Israel's sense of the wonder of nature as interfused with a presence is well illustrated in a passage that portrays the might and majesty of the sea, that enemy on which the Hebrew characteristically looked with suspicion and fear, but which is here sublimated into an expression of the power of God:

For many years the several churches of the Reformation tended to look with suspicion on this practice; more recently, some of them have recognized its value and have urged their ordained clergy to commend it to their people in whatever form may seem suitable.

Given this level of deception and Whittingdale's stated views towards the BBC, we might look with some suspicion at the daily drip - feed of anonymous briefings against it from government officials.

Americans tend to look with suspicion on the Puritans because of the Salem witch trials without realizing that this type of scapegoating was endemic earlier all across Europe and not peculiar to the Puritans.

Not exact matches

Headlines about Zika, West Nile or any other mosquito - borne virus might have you looking at the mosquitoes buzzing around your backyard with some suspicion.

Many people have attempted this and the IRS looks at it with suspicion.

In these days when «organised religion» is looked upon with suspicion we are losing sight of this most wonderful truth about God's work.

Thus the caring and nurturing response to the situation of the elderly woman would be euthanasia, which has generally been looked on with moral suspicion.

In fact, to suggest that good works are of central importance to the Christian faith is often considered heretical in the world of conservative evangelicalism, where advocating any form of «works - based salvation» is looked upon with suspicion.

In most circles, we mostly hear a version of American church history that features European colonialists and settlers (often evangelicals) as the heroes of the story — and then looks at other groups with suspicion.

The great hermeneuts of suspicion taught us to look upon truth with this posture, and it is difficult to free ourselves from it — to abandon ourselves to the possibility that truth might be more basic to our lives than the will to power.

He was reinstated to the bench for Monday's loss at Selhurst Park, but with City's underwhelming season fizzling towards its end and suspicions having long been held over his temperament, things suddenly look ominous.

Being out and about with my kids on a weekday I still get «the looks»: a mixture of pity and suspicion when dealing with the daily toddler struggles in a public domain or entering a playgroup.

Truly, whilst one lives in a very Midwestern and traditional area, these things are quite out of place and are looked at with the lens of high suspicion.

When Governor Cuomo's tax commissioner authorized 62 members of the Inspector General's staff to look at state employees tax returns, in the context of an investigation, it was viewed with suspicion by members of the state legislature.

Police arrested a 52 year old man from Batley on suspicion of murder and are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.

But never having seen Europeans before, they looked on us with great suspicion.

«Back in the 1960s and 1970s, 12 - step programs were looked at with some suspicion by the research community,» says Edward Lichtenstein, PhD, a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute who has observed and written about Nicotine Anonymous.

As a result of your input, I am looking at that bag of apricot kernals in my pantry with a little suspicion.

Is it because it is a chemical created in a laboratory that gives it acceptance among the medical community, while coconut oil being a product of nature is looked upon with suspicion?

Because potatoes were not mentioned in the Bible, many people looked at them with suspicion.

We all know that society at large looks at herpes with fear and suspicion, most of which is due to ignorance about the disease.

The relationships with a large age gap have traditionally been looked at with suspicion.

Although many individuals still look at gaps in a Western - Ukrainian relationship with suspicion, there is nothing wrong with two people of different age brackets who simply enjoy spending time together.

On top of that looking at every average looking guy with suspicion (molester, rapist) is a problem.

And you will never again look at the likeness of Colonel Sanders with anything less than hyper - vigilant suspicion.

When scanning a room, a street, or a river, he has a look of confident suspicion about what make be lurking with malevolent intent, and when he spots a butterfly, his particular weakness, there is something remarkable in how his face becomes gentle, even if the voice doesn't.

Moll has her own history — the reason she was expelled, the reason her mother felt the need to keep her daughter close at hand, the reason that she's looked upon with suspicion by certain folks in the area.

But «Ex Machina» also looks at technology as it now exists, the changes it has already wrought - changes that Garland views with a healthy degree of suspicion.

When Phil finally confronts Camilla about his suspicions, with Kate looking on in disbelief, the scene stands out because it's at least modestly satisfying to see somebody actually asserting himself.

Similarly, the lead performers who inhabit the characters in their somewhat hermetically sealed environs generally deliver competent performances: In particular Cooke, looking somewhat like a hybrid of Christina Ricci and Chloe Grace Moretz concocted in a Tim Burton lab experiment, fares well shifting gears effectively between the vulnerable, victimized Jane and the menacing, malevolent Evey; Richards gives her otherwise = underdeveloped role real pop, as smartly sex - kittenish as they come; and Harris utterly dominates the proceedings with his intuitive ability to shift Coupland from sympathetic to suspicion on a dime.

plot point is introduced you start to look at each of them with distrustful eyes, sure one minute that a certain character is the mole before another does something out of sorts and your suspicions turn to them.

The plane is broken and stuck in the middle of the searing desert, leaving the crew with nowhere to go, a limited supply of food and drink, and a sneaking suspicion that no one will come looking for them.

There's the suspicion that Penner (adapting a short story by Robert Damon Schneck) and director Stacy Title are simply assembling ideas and images that they have seen in other horror movies, hoping that we have been so inundated with certain clichés that we'll just look at this as another, regular - old horror movie — not the on - the - cheap job that it obviously is.

Urging greater civic engagement and purposefulness in the public realm might in many communities be looked upon with suspicion.

Any decision they make will be looked at with suspicion in case they are just lining themselves up for a big pay packet somewhere.

We met with much suspicion from the African - American community who feared the school would set admissions criteria that would result in a public school that looked like the local private school.

After what happened in DC, how could AFT officers look at continued delinquent dues payments from Dade with anything but suspicion?

«There's not exactly a formula, and sometimes we're looked upon with suspicion» by outside organizations and pundits.

Digitimes» numbers (always to be looked at with some suspicion) show a drop of about 80 % in E-Ink orders between October and December of 2011.

Kat's suspicions only increase when her great - aunt Margaret hands over her odd - looking chatelaine, an antique belt with charms attached — each supposed to be suffused with magic should Kat need it.

I have long been fascinated with the Puritans, their strange relationship with God, where everything pleasurable is a considered a sin, and woman on the fringes are looked on with suspicion.

This is a careful, close look not only at gender identity but at what it is to possess a body — for Sam, of course, but also for Miel (whose roses are viewed with suspicion) and for the almost mythical, red - haired Bonner girls as well.

We work achingly hard for our reputations; we have first rate distribution, can handle very large print runs, and promote the heck out of our books, so it singes the soul to be looked at with suspicion.

And, he observes, «Amazon, is being looked on with increasing suspicion... referred to euphemistically as «Our Friends in Seattle».

While it's virtually impossible to prove, those with low credit are often looked at with suspicion by those with higher scores.

The suspicion of credit troubles travels fast, and all of the companies where investors waved their hands at problems now get a fresh look with a different set of eyes.

Although not all plastics do this, some consumers started to look at all plastic bottles with suspicion.