Sentences with phrase «pejorative at»
«My view is, frankly, that people in law schools know more about teaching and learning and training than most members of the law society, and I don't mean that to sound pejorative at all, but we all have our areas of expertise.»
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To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all.
At Iodine, my startup, I took the role of «nontechnical co-founder» — a Silicon Valley term I've always considered slightly pejorative, but whatever.
These comments appeared to me to be a bit pejorative as there was no attempt at biblical refutation or even explanation of the context of your statements.
If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.
Sandi, at the risk of sounding pejorative, it is for the same reason that doctors go to hospitals.
It would be very good to have a ceasefire from insult and the use of pejorative terms about people at this time.
All of this is true; yet in common parlance «to preach at someone,» «to give someone a sermon,» or «to sound preachy» are decidedly pejorative expressions.
If that pejorative phraseology does not give away the inclinations of the survey authors, a closer look at the data surely does.
A pejorative term that's used with pride, hinting at a kind of arrogance that only winners can afford to display.
Many fatherhood bloggers initiated a petition to change the ads, seeing this depiction of the inept father at home as pejorative.
Instead they settled on the phrase «at public expense» — which is implicitly pejorative and begs for a negative reaction.
The only real departure from PDK's approach is that government funding is described in some neutral way, without the pejorative «at public expense» — a phrase that no one but PDK is inclined to use.
The gap would likely have been bigger still if Gallup had retained the pejorative phrase «at public expense.»
Heroic, back then, was used as a pejorative; today, in art, it would be hard to use the word at all.
Mohaiemen seems to be intertwining these two historical moments — the moment of the inception of «bare life» in the camp's state of exception and the present moment of the so - called refugee crisis — so that his protagonist, this specific Muslim man, is able to at once reflect and inflect that terrifying pejorative, der Muselmann.
The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.
See Monckton's 2010 «Response to John Abrahams» e.g. you continue your pejorative allegation that Lord Monckton is a «denier of climate change» insinuating that he is denying science and hinting at the Holocaust.
Up until February, no one knew that Rick Frenkel, an in - house lawyer at Cisco by day, was also the anonymous blogger behind the controversial Patent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic.
One is that most law professors are very able at teaching the casuistic (in its original, not pejorative, meaning) process which is legal analysis (and many other types of logical analysis) which process, for whatever reason, the students» undergraduate professors weren't able to adequately explain.
This case involved the complaint arising from the notorious comments he made to a sexual assault complainant, and other pejorative comments about the law of sexual assault, during a trial when he was a judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta, at Calgary.
And the ACEDS opportunity came to me and I thought at this point in the legal profession, where we're thinking about multidisciplinary practice, where we're thinking about having different ownership structures like in England, and licensing other professionals — what they call the pejorative non lawyer folks to do legal functions — that this was an opportunity for me to contribute.
That is not intended to be pejorative, buy the reality is that a COO inevitably finds him or herself with a brand new boss while at the same time, some new Firm Leader realizes that they now have to work closely with an individual whom they may even know very well.