Sentences with phrase «often out of ignorance»

Not to point any fingers but I think we can look around and see that there is a lot of this going on (although often out of ignorance rather than hubris.)

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Too often we encounter anger or ignorance that would lash out, out of all proportion to a criminal's moral blameworthiness.

Fred Schrumpf, the district's restorative practices director, said often in harassment cases students say things impulsively or out of ignorance.

,, and truly laugh out loud (most often at the rapier - like, dry wit which the major displays in the face of his son's absurdities - or the equally insightful comments of Mrs. Ali as she so gracefully negotiates bias and ignorance, not only from British villagers, but from her own family).

A gambler who rejected statistics and played dice or cards out of ignorance of probability distributions will lose more often, all other things being equal.

Alice Woolley has written thoughtfully about the questionable claims often contained in these letters and the important ethical questions raised by the practice of some «lawyers sending out demand letters based on spurious claims in the hope of extracting funds because of the fear and ignorance of those who receive them» (see, e.g., here, here and here).

Many changes also function as a patronizing statement to the public that they think most of us are too stupid to understand anything beyond the most generic of terms, and I actually get a kick out of how often even the most erudite profession [al] s reveal their own ignorance when they try to express themselves for general public consumption.