Sentences with phrase «people scorned»

Religion is something people scorned like to attack because it's attackable.

And we watch non-religious people scorn those who are religious.

I have a feeling this device will incur peoples scorn, mothers will shield their babies eyes, and you might get involved in some choice words with the 2 old men playing checkers.

While some people scorn the central role of television in our lives, she recognizes that a TV is often the centerpiece of a family gathering space.

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The US has just elected a candidate who openly embraces racism, sexism, and anti-Islamic rhetoric, mocks disabled people, denies climate change, and scorns the economically disadvantaged.

God in heaven does indeed laugh to scorn the furious raging of the people (Psalm 2: 1ff.).

In resisting Communist advances in Greece and Turkey, a much - scorned and widely underestimated American president announced in 1947 that it now «must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures....

This is EXACTLY why so few people come forward, when they are met with silence, disbelief, or outright scorn.

We'll even gripe about the people who finally do show up en masse on Christmas Eve and then scorn them for not being there every Sunday.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Anti-Semitism is fear, scorn and hatred of the Jewish race or people, and a desire to subject them to discriminative measures.

People truly at peace with their beliefs don't feel the need to gain validation from others through criticizing them or scorning them not do they feel the need to bark and howl from the highest tower to be heard.

Oh God of Earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry, our Earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die, the walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide, take not thy thunder from us, take away our pride.

I have heard of many reasons for leaving, have faced the scorn of people that deride Catholics.

Because of this, they were despised, hated, and scorned by the other Jewish people.

A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.

It is this kind of thinking that cause «biblical» people to be scorned by others... rather than forgive like the message of Jesus was all about, you want to divide and condemn.

As Gentiles, you used to be in a position where another group of people looked down upon you, and scorned you, and judged you, and thought that God hated you.

The only thing they will get with those billboards is more scorn from people.

I do not look with scorn on the person who feels that his or her meditations and prayers can have a positive effect on the world as a whole.

Additionally, I wouldn't trust someone who chose to attend a college that looked down on gay people to work with gay comrades any more than I would trust someone who chose to attend a racist college to work with people of the scorned race.

But here is the plot of the enemy of human souls, the Deceiver of this age: he has numbed the hearts and consciences of so many people of this generation, so that they have lost their abilities to experience this divine love and longing... And so, because they have lost this divine ability given to them by God, they scorn and ridicule those who have it, making themselves into to blind beggarly fools......

The Pharisee only did one thing wrong: he passed judgment on the whole person of the tax collector and with scorn dismissed him and his whole life as worthless.

Both are concerned with environmental deterioration, with the attitude that scorns future consequences of today «s selfishness, with the failings of the technocratic world and instrumental values, with the disaster that follows treating everything as a commodity and people as things.

Jesus didn't respond to the Pharisees public scorning of him as a bastard son, or a devil, but rather, he taught the people to heed the words they taught while not copying their actions.

I am pledged to help heap whatever scorn and pressure to leave upon these «people» who have infected and are ruining our club.

It is disspiriting to find people with intelligent comments fearlessly written but then stupidly scorned by many of the thickos and one eyed» all is right in Wenger world» low IQ OAFS.

and the author who frequently displays these sentiments, though this is definitely the very lowest demonstration, then you are defending division and bigotry: targeting a whole class of people for scorn being one symptom.

He's totally comfortable being a heel, and indeed the hormones and emotions stirred by the scorn of 20,000 people might energize his game.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

To say that people who choose to try something are silly and old fashioned - referencing 1500's moon measuring - really made me feel like you weren't presenting facts but was a scorned shopper.

«It used to be a matter of scorning people who did n`t use cloth.

People were discouraging and telling me not to bother and even scorned me for trying so hard.

Most people agree that nursing mothers should be afforded some privacy, but lame attempts to accommodate nursing moms like the airport that converted a bathroom stall into a «Nursing Lounge» are generally met with public scorn.

So when the shadow chancellor tells the New Statesman that he «understands» why the Lib Dems went into coalition with the Tories, expresses the view that Nick Clegg is a person of «integrity» and volunteers that the two of them recently had a «very friendly and warm chat», when he blows these kisses in the direction of a man he used to scorn, people are going to sit up and take notice.

The founder and leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has scorned a statement by the party declaring support for leader of the largest opposition party, Nana Akufo - Addo.

The founder and leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has scorned a statement by the party declaring...

Yes, it's a simple and seemingly effortless technique used by people in yoga classes, and often scorned and neglected by bodybuilders.

I've seen those who scorn any meal that doesn't contain carbs as disordered eating, those who unfollow people in social media who are doing Whole 30 or giving up sugar or trying out veganism for the month of January, and those who look down at meal planning as unnecessarily restrictive.

Make a clean break in person, via phone, anything except disappearing into the arms of another, as your soon - to - be ex will see new photos on Instagram and Facebook and you can expect some nasty texts to appear on your smart phone from someone scorned and publicly humiliated.

It is there that Bobby — one of the scorned «summer people,» in the eyes of some resentful locals — encounters bullying in the form of a sullen townie named Willie (Beau Knapp).

Because if people see me dressed like that they will make fun of me... To be honest, when I see people without designer clothes I look at them with scorn.

Mike Antonucci scrutinizes the teachers» unions, sparking praise from some people and scorn from others.

Indeed, the more people praise digital play, the more they scorn traditional schooling.

This approach has drawn scorn from such commentators as the New Republic «s Mickey Kaus and Johns Hopkins professor George Graham, who said of these numbers, «A lot of what the activists are calling hunger is just absolute rubbish... irresponsible people making irresponsible claims.»

In today's absurdly polarized politics, where everyone gets dubbed an ally or an enemy and either embraced or scorned 24/7, regardless of the issue, where we inhabit echo chambers, and where collaboration and comradeship seem possible only within them, a major reason we don't get much done is because we don't have enough people like Al..

The rapist, the teachers who stand by him and the union that is trying to finagle funds for him deserve the scorn of good people everywhere.

This year, in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King's «Letter from a Birmingham Jail,» we will explore actions that create stress — actions that foster such a tension that the people who scorn us will have to listen and will have to negotiate.»

That's kind of a weird obsession to express on an automotive website, where engaging in demented rants against the world's preeminent engineering superpower will only draw scorn and ridicule from people who aren't ignorant children.

Reisman drew scorn several years ago «by ditching sofas to stop people from loitering, replacing them with hard chairs.»