Sentences with phrase «pejorative terms»

The omission may well be down to the simple fact that the phrase «human rights» has passed into the lexicon of pejorative terms employed by the British media, alongside «political correctness», as shorthand for something that runs contrary to a deeply ingrained British sense of fair play.

Also repeated use of hoaxers, cranks and other pejorative terms certainly isn't going to win over minds of of those on the fence in this discussion.

There are enough pejorative terms being exchanged about this affair elsewhere.

Aren't you in danger of just giving the existing pejorative terms a PC makeover?

But I feel compelled to comment that your 8/17/12 summons used some highly pejorative terms in an attempt to smear my reputation as a veterinarian.

In many ways the changes in the publishing world means there has never been a better time for an author to become published and pejorative terms are not necessarily helpful.

Again, this may suggest that Madden and Lenhart's (2006) conclusions about societal views of online dating more accurately represent people's real attitudes toward finding romance on the Internet than do the conclusions of scholars such as Anderson (2005) and Wildermuth (2001, 2004) such that — for persons of any age — online daters are no longer viewed in the pejorative terms they once were.

All of them are committed to the same general principles - to make a bold nationwide rejection of racism and xenophobia and counter the ongoing hostility towards immigration that has transformed words like migrant and immigrant into pejorative terms.

The governing body is aware of three tweets the 21 - year - old apparently sent in 2012 and 2013 when he was a member of Barnsley's youth set - up, that contain pejorative terms for gay men.

It would be very good to have a ceasefire from insult and the use of pejorative terms about people at this time.

Justin Welby called for a «ceasefire» on the use of insults, «personalised attacks» and «pejorative terms» as the process of leaving the European Union continues.

Westerners and Asians with democratic convictions will, of course, characterize this model in morally pejorative terms.

The terms «whore» and «slut» are pejorative terms traditionally used to encourage women to live chastely, if not for love of virtue, then for fear of shame.

To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all.

This pejorative term means extracting income by placing tollbooths on the economy's key infrastructure.

Another pejorative term is «reductionistic» — again, said by people that do not understand the complex beauty of systems defined by a minimal of simple rules.

«Holy Rollers,» a popular but pejorative term for Pentecostals, has fallen into disuse.

«Exclusivists» (a somewhat pejorative term, to be sure, but one that may stick all the same) are people who insist on the finality and uniqueness of biblical revelation.

«The term atheism originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning «without god (s)», used as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the gods worshipped by the larger society.»

Knowing that the word «dogma» is a pejorative term for most Americans, O'Connor boldly capitalized it, confessing in the upper case that «My stories have been watered and fed by Dogma.»

The other front was known as Romanism, a pejorative term for Catholic Christianity.

It should not be regarded as a pejorative term, for the sects sometimes develop into mainline churches, as did the early Methodists.

In a time when «Cartesian» has almost become a pejorative term, Nagel invites us to have second thoughts.

The Masters is golf's Super Bowl, and I mean that as a pejorative term.

A pejorative term that's used with pride, hinting at a kind of arrogance that only winners can afford to display.

A: Pink slime is the pejorative term for «lean finely textured beef,» a product designed to recover useful bits from carcass trimmings.

«Shakabula» (Yoruba pejorative term for crude arms) versus AK - 47?

Thanks, On the Internazionale point, the intention was just to make the rhetorical point that «immigrants» only seems to get used generically as a pejorative term, eg in crime reporting, etc..

In the scope of politics, It's a pejorative term for a member of the «Tea Party» which is a movement which is known for it's fiscal conservatism.

POBRECITO «Man flu» is often used as a pejorative term for when men overstate their cold symptoms as flu symptoms.

Paul is mentally retarded — that's the medical diagnosis, this is not a pejorative term.

But with «mum» no longer a pejorative term («mom jeans» = Vogue - approved denim choice), planet film is catching on to the excellent - ness of mothers.

«Elitism» is the pejorative term lobbed around film criticism the most, and this kind of dismissive behavior is exactly why people hate the Oscar build - up.

I am determined that we stamp out the use of the word gay as a pejorative term.»

Not a pejorative term.

Recently the concept of a «gatekeeper» seems to have become a pejorative term for the agents, editors and other players in the traditional publishing world.

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

This pejorative term was originally coined to describe substandard commercial breeding facilities.

If it weren't so seemingly pejorative a term, we might be tempted to say that Jensen performs a generic form of abstraction.

When it comes to art, the word «event» is usually a pejorative term; but not, I think, in this instance.

«Women's work» (or «woman's work»), usually a pejorative term for women's gender - restricted domestic roles, was redefined by feminist artists.

Has «anthropocentric» become a pejorative term?

The painter Elizabeth Murray was known to take offense to having the cups in her paintings referred to as «teacups», a pejorative term to an artist who was doing plenty of heavy lifting and battling the gender dragons of the art world.

«Greed is just a pejorative term for the human condition of self - interest.

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...

In your article for instance, I could simply substitute the pejorative term CAGW, with Climate Denialism throughout..

The increasing use of this pejorative term — and its bedfellow qualifiers «chaotic», «irreversible», «rapid» — has altered the public discourse around climate change.

Please refrain from the pejorative term «skeptic» to apply to me.

Taking a pejorative term such as TreeHugger and twisting it around to create a cool new contemporary brand was all about «green marketing» in it's most positive sense - oh and of course good writing too!

«Those avian nervous systems are capable of far greater achievements than the pejorative term «bird brain» would suggest.»