Sentences with phrase «pejorative names»

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

Norse sagas mention slaves — «thralls» in Old Norse — who were often given pejorative names like Stinky, Stumpy, and Stupid.

This is the pejorative name given to «mechanically tenderized finely textured beef» an ingredient added to meat products.

Daesh, the prime minister's preferred term, is not an acronym of the group's full Arabic name, ad - Dawlah al - Islamiyah fi «l - «Iraq wa - sh - Sham, but a pejorative name given to it by its enemies.

They have a pejorative name for it: popcorn reading.

Not exact matches

For either to be arrogant in relationships, name - calling, making pejorative comments is hitting below the belt.

You misquote, misrepresent, use pejorative language, name calling, personal ad - hominem attacks, and other behavior unfit for Godly online dialogue.

«We feel it should be open to the people of the Earth to name exoplanets anything they like as long as it's not pejorative, prejudiced, insulting or profane,» Stern says.

You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance.

He puts up with the name - calling (Pee - Pee, Guido, and other racist pejoratives) until, through circumstances so contrived they qualify as science - fiction, he is shipwrecked with her on a deserted island.

Even if you want to avoid the pejorative, there's a name: Subsidy publishing, as in, the author subsidizes the so - called publisher, thus assuming all the risk.

I am non-responsive to: «righteous hindsight»; «whipping boy»; «overegg the ad superbiam»; using the name «David Rose» like it is an «a priori» pejorative term; your curious (to me) concern over me adding a word (auditability) to my own original thoughts as they take on an evolving context in a polite (well, up till a little while ago polite) conversation with you; your presumptive omniscient self - serving claim of knowledge of my «due diligence»; implying there is a problem endorsing parts of the IAC report but not others; etc, etc, etc...

And I'm using «consumer» in a pejorative sense here, namely one who passively (and happily) accepts programmatic decision - making in most aspects of his or her life, such as refrigerators (e.g., handling cooling systems), cars (e.g., protection algorithms to eco-driving), financial markets (e.g., the 2010 flash crash), movie preferences (e.g., the Netflix prize), and healthcare (e.g., knowing whether you are headed to the hospital), just to name a very few things.

I did not mean ignorant in the pejorative sense but in an objective sense that the member apparently does not understand the process by which domain names are registered on the Internet.

Pejorative [citation needed] names for the practice include janitor's insurance and dead peasants insurance.