Sentences with phrase «of ridicule at»

The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES as former President Mahama threw jabs at the Akufo - Addo administration.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoFormer President, John Dramani Mahama The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden...

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoFormer President, John Dramani Mahama The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES as former President Mahama threw jabs at the Akufo - Addo administration.

Not exact matches

Reaction to this news from the media world has tended to fall somewhere between shock and ridicule — unless the person in question is an investor in or former employee of Business Insider, of course, in which case they seem ecstatic at the possibility of a massive windfall.

As Donald Trump's position at the front of the Republican presidential race has become more and more unshakeable, the media's attitude towards him has changed gradually from a position of somewhat gleeful ridicule to concern that this man actually has a shot at becoming president of the United States — and that the media itself may have helped put him there.

At the time of the discovery, Marshall was ridiculed for his idea because «everyone» knew that bacteria couldn't survive in the acidic environment of the stomach.

A couple of months ago, an ad for a Woodside, California, group house called Startup Castle drew ridicule for demanding that applicants for its coveted spaces work out at least 15 hours a week, wear makeup no more than twice a week, have no more than one tattoo, and only rarely listen to songs with explicit lyrics.

After all, this is the place where legend has it that Google employees were warned prior to their IPO that showing up at work in a fancy car after the big day would likely get them a broken window, and where a Facebook employee once told The New York Times that if anyone working there bought such a car and posted a picture of it online, they could expect to be «ridiculed and berated.»

But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

This concept was ridiculed at first, but has since become the common description of how QE works.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Don't get mad at people ridiculing and making fun of you, instead, pray for them.

believers of God are ridiculed by the «rational» «free thinking» atheist for choosing # 2, while they are at peace with their highly «intellectual» conclusion of option # 1.

so we laugh at them, make fun of them, ridicule them because for a long time they had the power and imposed their bs will on the rest of us... guess what xties... payback's a biotch...

Ex-gay men are often closeted, fearing ridicule from gay advocates who accuse them of self - deception and, at the same time, fearing rejection by their church communities as tainted oddities.

Innocent women burned at the stake, gays ridiculed and denied rights, human beings turn themselves into living bombs: all in the name of some «god», undefined, unproven, undistinguished but always worth killing for.

Indeed, those who have argued that the figure of the emperor is a sustained concern of any part of the New Testament have often found themselves the object of ridicule and their interest regarded as, at best, somewhat eccentric (an example of this can be seen in R. P. Martin's remarks about Karl Bornhäuser's Jesus imperator mundi in the former's Carmen Christi).

Probably, if you don't mind your kid being ridiculed by all of her or his classmates and nobody sitting anywhere near you at the next PTA meeting.

We members of the Flat Earth Society get laughed at and ridiculed all the time too by all those smarty pants know it all types.

But look at what she and her supporters had to go through: threats; intimidation; ridicule; loss of friends; debt; years or months of sleeplessness, stress and anxiety; self - doubt; fear; demands for proof of medical records, police reports, emails, and court documents; then finally being believed not because you are a person but only because you produce authoritative authentication.

At school he is scolded by the teacher or ridiculed by his peers, and begins to crawl into a shell of secrecy.

If you believe in The Bible, as we do, being Christians, then this is true: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15:28-30&version=NIV or you can read it here also: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-cor/15.29?lang=eng#28 So, even though CNN wants to ridicule a Gospel principle, for us, LDS member, we have nothing to hide, it's in the Bible and at the time of Christ that was a practice that was in place as part of the Gospel of Christ.

I'm more interested in why Christians ridicule the guy at all — sure, he got the date wrong, but it's a central tenet of Christianity that it WILL happen any day now.

To be an apostle is to become expendable, low status, and exposed to ridicule and insecurity in this life: â $ œFor it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena.

He leveled a ridiculing swipe at the U.S. project: «It may seem unwise for one British pen to compete with the massed typewriters of the United States.»

Now today, these of so righteous beliefs step over the poor and down - trodden and ridicule those who can not chuck a dollar into the plate at their congregation.

But it reminded me of what one of the other speakers at the fishing training conference had said, about how we would get ridiculed, mocked, and persecuted for being a fisherman.

Nevertheless, in the midst of his reshaping still lies the central story at the heart of the (original) Book of Mormon — that a 19th century treasure hunter called Joseph Smith claimed to have discovered a new revelation of Jesus appearing to South American tribes inscribed on golden plates which only he could translate, and became the self - appointed prophet of a new religious movement (and yes, that whole story comes in for a lot of ridicule along the way).

Therefore they can not endure what even to them seems a contradiction, and which as reflected from the world around them appears much more glaring, that to be concerned for one's own soul and to want to be spirit is a waste of time, yes, an inexcusable waste of time, which ought if possible to be punishable by law, at all events is punished by contempt and ridicule as a sort of treason against men, as a froward madness which crazily fills up time with nothing.

Being on the receiving end of his ridicule is no pleasure as he is adept at making any position he dislikes appear ridiculous.

It still amazes me how many women share their very negative church experiences at the hands of its so - called leaders, only to have them ridiculed, dismissed, or silenced.

the back door Uninvited unwanted The first to arrive I was there at the beginning of time With Father Adam, Mother Eve Brother Cain I was at the Tower of Babel the Slaughter of the Innocents MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule,

At that stage of my life I would have joined the church on almost any condition, for I had this absurd idea that the gospel had marked me out for something, whether for reward, rebuke or ridicule I did not know; whatever it was, I felt inexorably driven toward it.

Whenever the elder members of Muhammad's clan were tired of ridiculing him they asked the younger ones to stand in his way, to call him bad names, to throw stones at him and even to hurt him physically.

That proposal, ridiculed by some at first, now reigns supreme in astrophysics and seems to have been verified by the astonishing work of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Italian Nobel prize - winning playwright Dario Fo, author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has traced Grillo's emergence to a tradition going back in Italian culture to medieval times — of the giullari, or «jugglers,» strolling comics who went around trading in sarcasm, irony, ridicule, and stories at the expense of the great and powerful.

Those listening to him would have had clear memories of injustice, ridicule, heavy taxation, and even genocide at the hands of the tyrannical Roman government.

This is the same prince of the Church who has called for the arrest of asylum - seeking dissidents in his churches, and in April of 2012, at Harvard University, ridiculed these persecuted Cubans as «former delinquents» and «people with psychological disturbances» who lacked «any cultural level.»

Opponents of the view that chance has any part to play in the order of nature tried to ridicule it in the famous analogy of the typewriting monkeys, asking if a million monkeys banging at random on a million typewriters could by chance produce one of Shakespeare's plays.

Thanks guys for all of your concerns of my post, gosh such love from you, this feels like family, well I guess people here are not that bad at all, now that that's said, I know some of you will resume the ridicule, but being one with the Creator YHWH is the only way from the truth, and righteousness that He left for us in the book of remembrance, the so called OT, the obvious truth, from Genesis - Malachi, the last prophet until this day.

It's wrong to ridicule such attitudes, at least in a culture that still assigns the work of raising kids mostly to women and allows men to continue their careers at full tilt.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Oh and Hugo do nt» forget Dr. Ben Carson who was ridiculed and almost denied speaking at Emory University because he doubted the theory of evolution.

This seems so preposterous and sad at the same time, it's a form of false nationalism as there should be liberty and justice in democratic society and this ban is an extreme ridicule.

Why are the foaming - at the mouth angry atheists coming out of woodworks to bash and mock and ridicule believers?

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

Straw man sets up a false picture or representation to attempt to ridicule atheists:» all the atheist having a panic attack at the thought of an atheist turning religous.

St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus as a sign of his undying love for his followers.