Sentences with word «odious»

One of the principles of odious debt is similar to what's called fraudulent conveyance in the United States.

Singer identified this idea as a form of discrimination, as odious as racism and sexism.

One would have thought that some of the issues that became talking points during the campaigning would have played a part on the voting day, but instead the voters ignored and gave this great country the most odious of leadership, since independence.

A third ground for annulling Russia's foreign debt is the doctrine of odious debts.

A momentary taste of power from 1979 to 1983 shows a democratically elected political lot that had learnt nothing from its 13 years of wandering in the wilderness, engaging in odious corruption which the military seized by the barrel as an excuse to seize power again till 1999.

[440] Writing in The Guardian, journalist Polly Toynbee for instance referred to him as «jester, toff, self - absorbed sociopath and serial liar», [441] while Labour politician Hazel Blears called him «a nasty right - wing elitist, with odious views and criminal friends».

It's wait and see time re.transfers but I would prefer not to do any business with the Lesser Portuguese Gob thank you very much.Though a winner I can't think of a more odious person in football.

To think we can is a prideful and thoroughly un-Christian idea that becomes particularly odious when joined to self - flattering but empty gestures.

The proposal Mintz now finds so odious is to roll back the federal rate to 18 %.

Classic creations like skeletons and the undead are flanked by Dr. Odious» mechanical Killbots, automated turrets and even his zombie accountants.

A political victory achieved by such odious tactics is at best an unstable tyranny spawned by an unscrupulous and unprincipled minority.

THINKS Odious little tick.

Page by page, Sebastian grows from odious pol to memorable monster.

The year is 1815, and Victor Frankenstein has come to England to perform the most odious task of his life.

Without doubt The Greater Portuguese Gob is the most odious person in world football.He is also so thick he would treat that as a compliment.

Hartford Public Schools should be used as an example to students, parents, school administrators, school boards, and communities of outside of Hartford as an example of how odious things get when a district's leadership and school board sells out to corporate school reform.

For a film whose epigraph is «My life was a comedy; I just had to laugh», this is lamentably short of humour (running gags about odious mourners and computers capable of storing 700 kilobytes just grate).

Because she said that «Human capital is one of the more odious terms in the capitalist lexicon».

For a less odious example closer to our own time, Smith points to the Netherlands of today, where the courts have made a habit of looking the other way as doctors dispatch patients - with and without their consent.

True, one of the flaws in the analogy might be that that wasn't about science, but it's also true that a junk - science tradition already existed for justifying odious racial beliefs.

This, however, merely results in Christianity becoming odious.

Few elements of Fallen are completely odious unto themselves, but rolled together it becomes a wave of inescapable proportions.

But when it comes to sex and sexual «identity,» our culture finds regulation suspect, even odious.

Thus one of the more odious characters in the novel, a regime stooge whose job is to break the will of «thought criminals,» explains that if Big Brother and the omnipotent Party say so, two plus two doesn't necessarily equal four: «Sometimes they are five.

Two doctors, Creinin and Vitinghoff, carried out a similar and equally odious experiment on pregnant women using methotrexate and misoprostol at the San Francisco General Hospital and reported their results in the Journal of the American Medical Association in October 1994.

Certainly some evangelical groups — the Signpost Research Centre, for example — have engaged the political debate in South Africa in such a way as advertently or inadvertently to lend support to the morally odious system of apartheid.

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On a continent plagued with endless guerilla warfare, where war crimes are standard fighting fare, the LRA stands apart as an especially odious group.

To the people of Hampton, Va., the case of Allen Iverson — one of the greatest high school basketball stars the state has produced — comes down to one odious word: Nigger.

Still, Lussier and Soisson are clearly at ease with one another and offer the unsuspecting viewer the unwelcome news that they're working on a sequel, though it occurs to me that if you're actually watching the film a second time with the commentary track on, the prospect of a sequel will probably not strike you as a particularly odious one.

In the LA Times today, Max Boot identifies a real problem: oil revenue goes disproportionately to some pretty odious regimes.

The most odious aspect — the suppression of the previous peak near mid-century — is illustrated nicely by the cumulative graph.

I hated the main character, Claudia, and was just over it as she lied, connived, endangered others, and generally slithered her way from one self - absorbed, odious act to the next.

-- Meanwhile Cliff is rejecting the professional work of a myriad of career researchers and instead is attaching his wagon to an amateur climate dilettante of odious reputation, one well known for delivering unwarranted insults to various scientists.

The Boston Review called Vanessa Place «the spokesperson for the new cynical avant - garde,» the Huffington Post characterized her work as «ethically odious,» while philosopher and critic Avital Ronell said she is «a leading voice in contemporary thought.»

So, once again, McIntyre and McKitrick have made odious and unfounded accusations, based on non-existent evidence.

It makes a pleasant change, even if I find Blears to be odious at the best of times.

They caught flak because they were donating money to odious groups devoted to fighting marriage equality for gays.

Among the holdings is Boeing Co., whose CEO was among the few executives not to resign from Trump's manufacturing council earlier this year after the president's odious moral equivocating on the violence in Charlottesville, Va..

Others found those celebrations not only inappropriate but morbid - fit for Mardi Gras, perhaps, but not for the demise of a fellow human being, however odious.

But, SCOTUS has made the claim that they can not overturn Korematsu because nobody has presented an equivalent legal case to them and as a result it remains the law of the land, odious though it may be.

Gove delirious - «we gave an optimistic and positive vision» - the most vile and odious fear and hate mongering campaign #BBCDebate

As Marina endures endless attempts to invalidate her identity — one cop insistently addresses her as «he» and Orlando's odious son spits «I don't know what you are» — she wears a mask of calm that slowly becomes alive with defiance.

But Exorcist: The Beginning, in unwisely taking on a few big issues (genocide, female fertility, colonialism), becomes in that presumption something odious and noxious.