Sentences with phrase «ridicule as»

I agree with Angela that it is time for the judiciary to act responsibly in these matters rather than indulge themselves at the expense of families who are made the objects of ridicule as a result.

Ms. Iannelli's Pennsylvania injury attorney claims that she suffered severe emotional distress, embarrassment, and ridicule as a result of the bank's actions.

To explain the universally acknowledged lack of warming over the last 17 years in defiance of all UN climate theories, government - funded «climate scientists» and the UN have increasingly touted what critics ridicule as «The Theory of The Ocean Ate My Global Warming.»

The three concurrent exhibitions opening as follows: Homage: respectful ridicule as art by Mike Caplanis, Small Works group exhibition, and Life I knew, Life Anew a group exhibition.

The videos prompt ridicule as they are circulated around the school and internet, the lawsuit says.

The ambitious and esteemed Dr. Blalock is met with ridicule as his colleagues deem his methods radical and unorthodox.

For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater.

But then, gays and lesbians are a subject of ridicule as homosexuality is not an accepted mode of life for straight men and women.

It was not the first time the health secretary has been the subject of ridicule as a result of his NHS reforms.

Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short - term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule as he repeatedly shifted his explanation for firing Comey.

Living in Toronto, surrounded by Leafs fans (However I say «Leaves» as that's the correct plural form) has put me on the end of so much ridicule as a die - heart NJ fan.

So take ridicule as your medicine til you do learn what reason is.

Since we must face each other now and then we do not have the luxury of being smarmy and using ridicule as weapons.

Therefore they can not endure what even to them seems a contradiction, and which as reflected from the world around them appears much more glaring, that to be concerned for one's own soul and to want to be spirit is a waste of time, yes, an inexcusable waste of time, which ought if possible to be punishable by law, at all events is punished by contempt and ridicule as a sort of treason against men, as a froward madness which crazily fills up time with nothing.

The part about how some Atheist, just like some Faithful find themselves unable to debate find themselves throwing insults and ridicule as the last tool in their toolbox... yes on that.

If so, and they were apart or worked at that place, then I guess they were just as guilty and deserved just as much punishment and ridicule as the person actually committing the offense..

U.S. President Donald Trump has stunned the world by agreeing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a man he's ridiculed as «Little Rocket Man» and whose regime only months ago he threatened with «fire and fury.»

Yet he's quick to cite some prolific exceptions to the rule: Alexandre Dumas (teasingly ridiculed as Alexander «Dumb - Ass» in King's The Shawshank Redemption) is best known for «The Count of Monte Cristo» and «The Three Musketeers.»

From simple things like the so - called «earth heartbeat» predicted by multiple theories — some better than others, but most ridiculed as a bunch of hippies — to activity which is perfectly analogous to neuro - networks along cosmic filaments, and many others.

The tea partiers are consistently ridiculed as washed - up old white people, as the defunct humans of the lingering, but not much longer lingering, past.

Those who believe that the global economy as such should be abandoned are typically ridiculed as wanting to turn the clock back in impossible ways.

Those of us who believe, for instance, that surgical intervention might not be an appropriate remedy in the case of those experiencing confusion about their sex are ridiculed as intolerant or bigoted, rather than offered the opportunity to debate.

Anyone holding to a different view or belief (especially religious) is ridiculed as possessing a sub-standard intellect by the Atheistic - run world status quo.

The theological dogma of the human soul being a spiritual creation of God is often ridiculed as a concept that has been rendered unnecessary by science.

Theresa May used her first PMQs to tear into the Labour leader for the turmoil in his party, and ridiculed him as an «unscrupulous boss».

He's written a blog in which he reveals his final poll got very close to the final result, but he «chickened out» of publishing it because he feared it would be ridiculed as an outlier.

New York's Penn Station, long ridiculed as outdated, crowded and miserable for travelers, would undergo a major overhaul under a plan expected to be announced as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.

«I remembered the alienation of disability, being ridiculed as a child, that kind of thing, being left out of things,» Paterson says.

During his three terms, Mario became infamous for intellectualizing, and he was ridiculed as «Hamlet on the Hudson» for his tortured deliberations; Andrew burns to «operationalize,» to be considered decisive and substantive.

The highest estimate of the cost of the bill was 24 million per year (and that figure was ridiculed as exaggerated)... somehow Cuomo conjured that into «$ 229.7 million in near - term costs and $ 607 million in projected costs for the long term.»

She ridiculed as a «gimmick» the governor's budget proposal to let municipalities reduce current pension payments and make up the difference in the future.

Ridiculing him as insincere doesn't seem to have worked.

De Blasio ridiculed as a «pipe dream» President Donald Trump's the tax plan, which would reduce taxes on the highest earners and eliminate the deductibility of state and local taxes.

i posted about geoengineering which I have been following since the nineties and as many people ridiculed as posted positively.

These people never imagined that they would be dug up, their religion ridiculed as silly, and put on display in a glass case, so people can gawk at their shriveled bodies.

The culmination of all of this is his work on an airborne battleship the Hercules, a plane the public ridicules as «The Spruce Goose.»

It was remade as a science - fiction film, writer / director Peter Hyams» Outland (1981) with Sean Connery, with the adapted plot transferred to interstellar space (and ridiculed as «High Moon»).

My biggest gripe with the comments and the reasons why many won't be getting it is that: For the entire Wii lifespan, it was ridiculed as a kid's platform.

Just as screwtops regularly get the (Thunder) bird from wine snobs, Beaujolais Nouveau are routinely ridiculed as the $ 10 version of, well, screwtop wines definitely dernier cru.

They are found not guilty and the prosecution is widely ridiculed as being out of touch with changing social norms when the chief prosecutor asks if it were the kind of book «you would wish your wife or servants to read».

Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown Why Dan Brown shouldn't be ridiculed as the hack writer he might not be.

If we take Manet's Olympia (1863) as a critical - yet - still - problematic exemplar of the patriarchal tradition, we might imagine that Thomas reclaims the marginalized positions of both the recumbent white sex worker (ridiculed as corpse - like and revolting in contemporaneous criticism) and her black attendant (offensively disparaged by 19th - century critics as a «hideous Negress»).

The piece completely ignores that the views of those he labels «modernists» and «pragmatists» come wholly out of the research demanded by those he ignores in the old movement, whom he unfairly ridicules as hippies.

A person that may have ridiculed you as a tree hugger just 10 years ago is very likely hanging on the tree next to yours right now.

Speaking to an audience in Germany five years ago, Gore — sometimes ridiculed as «The Goracle» — alleged that «the entire North Polarized [sic] cap will disappear in 5 years.»

These days any skeptic, or even «lukewarmists» like Tom Fuller, knows that the discussions on RealClimate are not in good faith, that heterodox comments will be censored, deleted, ignored, distorted or ridiculed as a matter of course and regardless of merit.

For most of his political career, Gingrich championed the virtues of science, but last year, while campaigning in the Republican presidential primaries, he dropped Hayhoe's chapter after Rush Limbaugh discovered her contribution and ridiculed her as a «climate babe.»

This gets pretty childish: Mr Littlejohn ridicules it as the «yuman rites act».

Unfortunately, that case made headlines for the wrong reasons and was wrongly ridiculed as being frivolous.

Lau explains that it's a win - win situation really, despite being ridiculed as blatantly copying Apple.