Sentences with phrase «of ridiculing public»

But Dickson expressed concern over the controversy, saying it was capable of ridiculing public institutions by portraying the Senate and the police in bad light.

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Bloomberg Businessweek described the outbursts as a return to his «old strategy of ridiculing the competition»; the Associated Press, meanwhile, noted that he «thrives on... insulting rivals in public.»

It took a lot of guts to stand up for what he believed in knowing full well he was subjecting himself to public ridicule.

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

in a recent time article, it was revealed that the whitehouse's public show of support for faith - based groups was a cover for it's ridicule of them.

Teaching evolution and ridiculing creationism does not test the limits of academic freedom in public or private institutions.

If you pray in public, in the United States you open yourself up to ridicule, scorn, mockery, the object of jokes, funny looks.

The alarm felt by those of us still concerned about preaching is not a response solely to the noise outside in the street where public disfavor and ridicule have been heaped upon the pulpit.

Moreover, Isaiah moves and speaks, despite occasional public ridicule (28:9 f.), with the assurance of one who knows his position is fundamentally secure.

Typical of Liberal news to take someone's personal email and make it public, all in an effort to ridicule Mormons, and ultimately Romney.

And I thank God for men and women who are willing to be strong in their faith and proclaim it in public regardless of ridicule or scorn.

Calvin went so far as to treat acts of contempt or ridicule of the ministry as serious public offenses.

I would suggest to Jose that it is not very professional to ridicule one of your players in public (Pepe) for speaking about the respect that is due to Real's hero and club captain Iker Casillas.

If a compromising image of your teen goes public or gets sent to others, your teen could be at risk of humiliation, embarrassment, and public ridicule.

The fact that a mother has been ridiculed or bullied is made light of, particularly in the comments sections by the public.

The conditional provision states that matters that may bring the office of the President into public ridicule and even matters that subject the whole country to embarrassment are grounds for impeachment.

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, he was immediately written off and ridiculed by Conservative - supporting public affairs professionals, while the industry's hefty contingent of diehard Blairites were often even more scathing.

ASP Juliana Obeng stated emphatically that the decision to transfer the case to the headquarters is not intended to subject the Man of God to public ridicule.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

Explaining the motive for the petition, one of the petitioners Abigail Elorm Mensah said the former Attorney General has on several occasions conducted himself in a manner that has brought the party into disrepute and public ridicule and also weakened the unity and cohesion of the party in breach of articles 46 [8] and 45.

A lot of people, including Trump and some of his most avid supporters, were also held up to understandable public ridicule.

John Murphy, who had worked as a political organizer and lobbyist for the Public Employees Federation of white collar state workers, contends in court papers that he was «ridiculed, harassed and humiliated» after he had to cut back his duties and hours to attend physical therapy sessions following an August 2014 accident.

This is coupled with women's invisibility - there is very little coverage of women's issues or women's achievements, particularly for BME women, older women or women with disabilities, and an «almost visceral» ridiculing of women in power or in public life.

Speaking in an interview with the Punch on Thursday, the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, said Fayose had subjected himself to public ridicule with his comments.

The gravamen of their petition is that in exercise of my rights as a citizen of Ghana under the 1992 Constitution, I wrote four articles published on 2nd November 2016; on or about 15th November, 2016; on or about 29th July 2017; and on or about 7th August 2017 which were «carefully designed by to expose the Party to public hatred, ridicule and opprobrium and to lower its reputation in Ghana and elsewhere.»

Equally, if the majority of the shadow cabinet sought to defy Corbyn by enforcing a three - line whip to make MPs vote for intervention in Syria, public ridicule would ensue.

The two, Evans Amankwah and Abigail Elorm Mensah, argued that though Mr. Amidu is a leading member of the NDC, he has brought the party into disrepute and fueled public ridicule of the party.

The Commission wishes to state for the umpteenth time, that it believes in the rule of law and will not take extra-legal measures to ridicule or embarrass any member of the public that may or may not be under investigation.

The Nigerian Army has alerted the general public to be wary of imminent misinformation that may arise from the some elements both within its confines and outside, especially through the use of the social media circle to ridicule the Army and the person of the Chief of Army Staff for reasons best known to them.

The two, Evans Amankwah and Abigail Elorm Mensah, contended that, despite Mr. Amidu being a leading member of the NDC, he has brought the party into disrepute and fueled public ridicule of the party.

For its poor record of conviction of high - profile treasury looters since its creation in 2003, the EFCC has remained the butt of public ridicule, and the agency's current acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, prefers to blame lawyers for the agency's failure.

He tells us that for five years from 1903, the claims of Wilbur and Orville Wright to have flown a machine that was heavier than air were derided and dismissed by Scientific American, in spite of «scores of public demonstrations, affidavits from local dignitaries, and photographs...» Apparently, what the Wrights had done was considered scientifically impossible and so all their evidence was ridiculed.

«Some research on sex - related and substance abuse behavior is easy to ridicule if it is taken out of its public health context.

This is usually to avoid public glare and ridicule on what the society thinks of in negative terms.

There was a time when courtships when courtships mixed dating occurred secretly because the couple was afraid of the public ridicule, ostracism by their families and the wider community.

The culmination of all of this is his work on an airborne battleship the Hercules, a plane the public ridicules as «The Spruce Goose.»

Tell deliberate lies: Ridicule public education advocates as «defenders of the status quo» who want money thrown at stale ideas, even though those ideas are backed by solid evidence.

Malloy's unwavering commitment to the Common Core, the absurd Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system has rightfully earned him the ridicule of parents, teachers and public education advocates across the state.

He pledged to take control of the city's public schools, then under the supervision of the Board of Education, which had been ridiculed for budget troubles and stagnant academic performance.

She cited a ruling that says the privilege allows people in government agencies to offer «uninhibited opinions and recommendations without fear of later being subject to public ridicule or criticism,» and «to protect against confusing the issues and misleading the public by dissemination of documents suggesting reasons and rationales for a course of action which were not in fact the ultimate reasons for the agency's action.»

That media silence was due in large part to a calculated strategy among Common Core supporters: Advocates took pains to stay under the radar, avoid public debate, tightly coordinate their messaging, ridicule skeptics rather than respond to them, and ride the wave of support provided by the Obama administration in those years.

There is, obviously, something to be said for being able to walk around with the complete works of Tolstoy on your person at all times without fear of collapsed vertebrae or public ridicule.

And the reading public will weed them out without pompous fools who like to hear the sound of their own voice ridicule the whole lot as crap.

Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of artists.

This year's Turner Prize contenders drew broad praise for being more accessible to the public than some past nominees, although the nomination of Assemble drew sharp scrutiny and some ridicule in the British news media.

In 1954, Ad Reinhardt engaged in a public ridiculing of Rothko, Newman, de Kooning, Gottlieb and Still, resulting in Newman suing him for libel.

Perhaps because so many shortlisted artists are involved in unconventional or avant - garde forms of installation art, contemporary sculpture, video art or other types of conceptual art, they tend to attract considerable criticism (even ridicule) from some art critics and members of the public.

«There's a concern that if it turns out that CO2 is not a major cause of climate change, NASA will have put the reputation of NASA, NASA's current and former employees, and even the very reputation of science itself at risk of public ridicule and distrust.»

This reaction is substantially reinforced when, as often happens, the message is put across by public communicators who are unmistakably associated with particular cultural outlooks or styles — the more so if such advocates indulge in partisan rhetoric, ridiculing opponents as corrupt or devoid of reason.

PM Abbott has employed Maurice Newman as the chairman of his business advisory council and Mr Newman is making public statements ridiculing climate science and blaming climate change action for slowing the economy.