Sentences with phrase «public scorn»

To avoid public scorn, many of those who can still afford those prices have been spotted on Manhattan streets discreetly hiding their purchases in anonymous brown - paper bags.

The legislation cleared the way for ISPs themselves to do exactly what Facebook has come under intense public scorn for — selling user data to advertisers.

The witnesses testifying claimed to have suffered public scorn as a result of being labelled «hate - mongers».

this Committee, authorized by Congress, do precisely that through exposure, obloquy and public scorn.

What did this lawyer do to earn his public scorn?

But to gain those freedoms she had to endure public scorn and wrestle with a sexual identity whose vocabulary had yet to be invented.

A May - December (or March - December) romance with the late Errol Flynn made her the subject of gossip and public scorn.

A legislature can not be effective while suffering from public scorn.

Mr. Krupski — a farmer himself — has focused most publicly on farmland preservation during his first 10 months in office, at one point earning the public scorn of some longtime environmentalists.

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.

If, as a disciple of Jesus Christ, you stand up under poverty, and hunger, and weeping and public scorn, congratulations, you are a great success.

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.

Not exact matches

Has the recent publication of names in Boston simply followed the popular path of demonizing the alleged wrongdoers» and this because those accused deserve public wrath and scorn?

Have you and your church, or any of the other christians heaping scorn upon the WBC in this blog, issued a public statement condemning your fellow christians at WBC for their behaviour, as many christians have demanded that muslims do when members of their tribe behave contrary to the declared principles of their myths and your expectations?

Then a noted preacher had come to town and had aroused such public interest that my friend, out of sheer curiosity mingled with scorn, went to hear him.

All these efforts to assist and regulate the poor were governed by a crucial distinction between the «worthy» and «unworthy» poor, between those who could not be blamed for their dire straits and those who could, between those who were redeemable and those who were not, between public neighbors entitled to support and those subject to scorn.

Things are seriously mixed up in our country if Tebow is seen as someone who should be scorned, when so many other pro athletes abuse drugs, abuse their wives, abuse animals, and commit crimes on a regular basis yet the public seems to be just fine with overlooking that behavior.

If you pray in public, in the United States you open yourself up to ridicule, scorn, mockery, the object of jokes, funny looks.

And I thank God for men and women who are willing to be strong in their faith and proclaim it in public regardless of ridicule or scorn.

No matter what we do, we can not win in the eyes of a public that has already decided to scorn us when they're not ignoring us.

In February this year she became deputy chairman of the party when Suzanne Evans was suspended — James subsequently described her to the BBC as a «woman scorned», the most public attack she has made on a Ukip colleague.

Thatcher scorned the Commonwealth, social cohesion, historical continuity and public Christianity.

The «Eagle Prophet» as he is popularly called, gained recognition for his famous prophecies that has caused a great stare among Ghanaians due to his unflinching ability to deliver prophesies amid several backlash from a section of the public who treat his prophesies with scorn rather than finding solutions to avert them.

When Dr. Nduom went for Miss Eva Lokko for Election 2012, we laughed him to scorn as a politically misguided «busy - body» because at the time, Miss Lokko had become so objectionable as a public figure that no serious politician would associate with to prevail over voters.

Beset by corruption, backroom deals and voter scorn, New York received a score of 61, a D -, placing it in 31st place nationwide in the State Integrity Investigation, a data - driven assessment of state government accountability and transparency conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.

Maude also scorned Whitehall courses based, he said, on how to get the best out of the public expenditure process or protect the permanent secretary's position rather than on thinking about the taxpayer.

Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, faced the scorn of the public, the National Democratic Congress Minority, and some civil society groups, for making ethnocentric comments, after saying northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of the damage from the army worm.

The incident sparked public outrage with some scorn being directed at the Gender Ministry for its perceived delay in taking action on the incident.

It boiled down to this: wearing eyewear sporting an obvious camera in public can trigger scorn, and sometimes even violence.

«But I believe that as (the evidence) becomes increasingly compelling, as the public continues to understand that climate change is already unfolding... we will look back with scorn at those who denied climate change.»

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson deserves more than a little scorn for the violations of graduation policies (and the underlying causes of them) that took place under her watch.

But officials with GLSEN, a national network that advises K - 12 school leaders on LGBT policy, tell Policy Watch that open scorn from public officials such as James can be particularly damaging to a community that's especially vulnerable.

She has never run, taught in, attended or sent a child to an American public school, and her confirmation hearings laid bare her ignorance of education policy and scorn for public education itself.

Our secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, has repeatedly signaled her support for school choice and privatization, as well as her scorn for public schools, describing them as a «dead end»...

And now, when he was sixty - five years of age, the very political class he'd so attacked and hounded and scorned from his redoubt, mocked without consideration or respect for the ties of family or friendship (and he'd lost quite a few friends as a result; even a few relatives no longer spoke to him), that very same political class had decided to put the gigantic Colombian machinery of sycophancy into action to create a public homage that, for the first time in history, and perhaps the last, would celebrate a cartoonist.

Without any warning or public disclosure they have just increased the cost of their audio package by over 50 % and have incurred the ire and scorn of thousands of users.

Without any warning or public disclosure they have just increased the cost of their audio package by over 50 % and have incurred the ire and scorn of thousands of... [Read more...]

While many county government employees receive the scorn of the public, Bailey is one of three animal control officers who recently have earned numerous letters of praise for their concern and courtesy.

Despite drawing in an annual 200,000 visitors, it has often been scorned by critics, particularly for its inclusion of works by members of the public alongside the RA academicians.

Artists were struggling themselves to find a sense of community away from the public eye and beneath the public's scorn.

It is terrible to be great alone, and the public had not yet recognized with its scorn the greatness of his American contemporaries.

He spent much of his life advocating for acceptance of an art form that was not understood and scorned by many critics, museums and the public.

Politics and the media have dragged themselves through the mud and the public openly scorn them both.

A large and determined fraction of the public were convinced that global warming worries deserved only scorn, and most of the rest gave the problem a far lower priority than the economic and political issues of the moment.

High Gas Prices Mean Fewer Traffic Fatalities High Gas Prices = Fewer Auto Deaths Americans Direct Scorn Over High Gas Prices Towards Washington Carrot 0, Stick 1: Gas Prices Cause Boom in Bikes, Transit High Gas Prices Changing Society More Motorists Running Out of Gas Public Transit Looking More Attractive in the Face of Record Gas Prices Auto Makers Demand Higher Gas Prices

Among the themes in the film that he finds particularly interesting is the public's «unanimously expressed scorn for Popov and Hayashi's decision to litigate the ball's ownership rather than informally settling the issue.»