Sentences with phrase «ridiculed at»

Although ridiculed at the time, Hubbert's predictions proved correct.

The focus on CO2 is absolutely ridiculous and should be ridiculed at every turn.

Sadly Dr Snow was dead before it became accepted that his scientific evidence, ridiculed at the time, was absolutely right.

The warnings have been ignored or ridiculed at the international, national, state and even local level, thanks in part to a well - funded, right - wing campaign representing the short - term interests of heavy industry, mining and fossil fuel corporations.

U-1 is a dork on Earth, and he is often ridiculed at school, while also going unnoticed by the girl he admires.

Predictably, the very idea was ridiculed at first — «Who would want average returns?»

At 14 years of age, Dai Manuel looked in the mirror after having been ridiculed at school and decided that enough was enough.

But while Osborne's mantric use of the phrase may have been ridiculed at the time, in hindsight it was brilliantly effective.

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.

Every school going Indian vegetarian kid gets ridiculed at school.

This concept was ridiculed at first, but has since become the common description of how QE works.

St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus as a sign of his undying love for his followers.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoFormer President, John Dramani Mahama The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES as former President Mahama threw jabs at the Akufo - Addo administration.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoFormer President, John Dramani Mahama The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden...

The New Patriotic Party government was the object of ridicule at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES as former President Mahama threw jabs at the Akufo - Addo administration.

Both met with considerable skepticism and even ridicule at the outset.

I went along with my friend the Fighter Pilot (a name which I know gets him enormous ridicule at work — he's actually a helicopter pilot in the RAF, and apparently calling yourself a Fighter Pilot is a really big no - no, but I'm afraid the blog name will stick... partly because of the uproar I know it still causes!).

The look — blocky black and white graphics enlivened by bursts of color — remains embedded in my memory, along with a general disappointment that the story glorified old stereotypes without adding much more than a whiff of self - aware, modernist ridicule at its hoariness.

We need more ridicule at the outlandish stories.

After considerable hype in 2015, FF unveiled a rocket - like concept car to much ridicule at CES this year.

Not exact matches

Reaction to this news from the media world has tended to fall somewhere between shock and ridicule — unless the person in question is an investor in or former employee of Business Insider, of course, in which case they seem ecstatic at the possibility of a massive windfall.

As Donald Trump's position at the front of the Republican presidential race has become more and more unshakeable, the media's attitude towards him has changed gradually from a position of somewhat gleeful ridicule to concern that this man actually has a shot at becoming president of the United States — and that the media itself may have helped put him there.

At the time of the discovery, Marshall was ridiculed for his idea because «everyone» knew that bacteria couldn't survive in the acidic environment of the stomach.

A couple of months ago, an ad for a Woodside, California, group house called Startup Castle drew ridicule for demanding that applicants for its coveted spaces work out at least 15 hours a week, wear makeup no more than twice a week, have no more than one tattoo, and only rarely listen to songs with explicit lyrics.

After all, this is the place where legend has it that Google employees were warned prior to their IPO that showing up at work in a fancy car after the big day would likely get them a broken window, and where a Facebook employee once told The New York Times that if anyone working there bought such a car and posted a picture of it online, they could expect to be «ridiculed and berated.»

But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

Buffett's tart comments directed at Trump came two days after another billionaire Clinton endorser, Mark Cuban, ridiculed Trump at a Clinton rally in Western Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately, these attempts at localization have often led to ridicule from Chinese people.

Trump over the weekend on Twitter ridiculed Senate Republicans for not passing a health care bill, saying Democrats were laughing at them and they «look like fools.»

Or at least publicly ridicule them all more harshly than the media hounds unpopular political figures.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

On the other hand, organizations and individual pundits, most recently JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, have faced scorn and ridicule from the online blockchain commentariat over remarks that downplay the technology's anticipated impact on the world at large.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Don't get mad at people ridiculing and making fun of you, instead, pray for them.

A close friend I had growing up constantly ridiculed my religion (I was a practicing Catholic at the time) to the point where the friendship ended.

believers of God are ridiculed by the «rational» «free thinking» atheist for choosing # 2, while they are at peace with their highly «intellectual» conclusion of option # 1.

so we laugh at them, make fun of them, ridicule them because for a long time they had the power and imposed their bs will on the rest of us... guess what xties... payback's a biotch...

Not only do they not believe in a God, and sit here and ridicule everyone that don't sgree with them, but the same God they don't believe in, is the first thing they will throw out at a believer, who gets some righteous anger towards thier folly?

After all they come on this blog daily to be rejected and ridiculed; in Chad's case he does not get enough at home from his family.

He was whipped, thorns pushed on his head, spit at, ridiculed, betrayed, flat nails were hammered into his hands, feet and wrist where all the nerves are.

Ex-gay men are often closeted, fearing ridicule from gay advocates who accuse them of self - deception and, at the same time, fearing rejection by their church communities as tainted oddities.

Innocent women burned at the stake, gays ridiculed and denied rights, human beings turn themselves into living bombs: all in the name of some «god», undefined, unproven, undistinguished but always worth killing for.

Indeed, those who have argued that the figure of the emperor is a sustained concern of any part of the New Testament have often found themselves the object of ridicule and their interest regarded as, at best, somewhat eccentric (an example of this can be seen in R. P. Martin's remarks about Karl Bornhäuser's Jesus imperator mundi in the former's Carmen Christi).

And the punishment is, at best ridicule, banishment and condemnation.

Probably, if you don't mind your kid being ridiculed by all of her or his classmates and nobody sitting anywhere near you at the next PTA meeting.

We members of the Flat Earth Society get laughed at and ridiculed all the time too by all those smarty pants know it all types.

But look at what she and her supporters had to go through: threats; intimidation; ridicule; loss of friends; debt; years or months of sleeplessness, stress and anxiety; self - doubt; fear; demands for proof of medical records, police reports, emails, and court documents; then finally being believed not because you are a person but only because you produce authoritative authentication.

Vindicating the Vixens looks at female characters in the Bible who have often been judged, condemned, marginalized, ignored, or ridiculed, and shows how these women are actually presented by the text as heroes to emulate or examples to be followed.

You ridiculed the idea that 40K was a reasonable number with no logical argument to support your view at all.

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..