Sentences with phrase «scoffed in»

You remind me of how I scoffed in 1980 when I heard a computer expert predict the demise of newspapers as people began reading on their computers.

Scoffed in the garden, watching the sun go down, and wishing my roses were as good as Dad's.

If you were to tell me back then, that I would later relocate half - way across the globe, and settle for a few years in the South American continent, and more specifically in Buenos Aires, which was known for many decades as the «Paris of South America», I would have really scoffed in your face.

We scoffed them all in one day — the shame!

«Buy, hold and suffer,» The Globe and Mail scoffed in a September 2005 article that painted Lee - Chin as obnoxious and obstinate, likening him to Donald Trump.

How many of us pass by a beggar only to scoff in judgement.

«Scoffing in ambiguous words» (VI, 586)» saying one thing and meaning another or several others» is at once an ability the devils have and a mode of performance to which they are doomed.

Do you scoff in the face of morons...

Yep, I like L&M, not a scoff in a carload.

Not exact matches

In our cynical age, many might scoff at such an old - fashioned motto (or, indeed, at the power of any motto or slogan).

A 95 cent loonie is nothing to scoff at either, given that it's still well above the 70 - to - 80 cent range seen in decades past.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

It's hard not to scoff at some of the products you see pitched in infomercials — but the format deserves a little respect.

Alfa Romeo exited the US market back in the mid-1990s, and if you had told me prior to the financial crisis that the legendary Italian brand would be back, I'd have scoffed.

When I heard he was launching a business in the gaming industry, I scoffed.

Quite literally, stories are able to transport our mind to another place, and in this place we may embrace things we'd likely scoff at in the «harsh, real world».

In his April 18 tweet, Trump scoffed at a police sketch artist drawing that Daniels recently had made of a man she said threatened her in 2011 over her alleged affair with TrumIn his April 18 tweet, Trump scoffed at a police sketch artist drawing that Daniels recently had made of a man she said threatened her in 2011 over her alleged affair with Trumin 2011 over her alleged affair with Trump.

(It didn't help that in the interview Bannon scoffed at the idea that U.S. would ever take military action against North Korea.)

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

I have heard everyone from my Inc. colleague Howard Tullman to venture capitalist Peter Thiel scoff at the value of a four - year - degree experience in today's work environment.

In the interview, Kenney scoffed at that suggestion and suggested a combination of a stable family background and skills training could ensure a path to success for Canadian youth.

Most in the room fell silent in disbelief and few scoffed at the notion that there is any downside to being infallible.

Some may scoff, but to the well - heeled traveller with the right connections, membership to a club like the Soho provides a port - of - call in most major cities — a plush haven where one can entertain a client away from the prying eyes of the hoi polloi or, in some cases, crash for a few days on nothing more than your own recognizance.

So in September, when Cain unveiled his 9 -9-9 tax plan as the panacea for America's economic ills, both sides of the political aisle were quick to scoff at its simplicity.

Domestic fund managers will likely scoff at the theory, which makes for some interesting and potentially tense moments in Australian equity capital markets in the coming year.

Even those respondents who weren't decidedly anti-human resources scoffed at the notion that HR is a neutral entity serving both employee and employer in pursuit of the greater good.

The investment intentions survey released in early July (scoff, but it's the best piece of forward - looking data we've got) suggested the hit would be only 20 %.

Founder Jack Bogle nonetheless scoffs, telling CNBC's Tom Anderson in a March 2015 story, «Active managers are just trying to come back and say there is a better way to index, when they know damn well there isn't a better way.»

When I caught wind of Bitcoin as a newly minted MBA in the summer of 2012, I immediately scoffed.

The post is a Level III on the federal executive schedule, meaning he was making $ 172,100 a year, far less than he earned in the private sector but still nothing to scoff at.

Democrats scoffed at that claim, saying the plan would far less revenue at a time when oil production in the lower 48 states, especially Texas and North Dakota, is booming.

Most of us scoffed at the idea not realizing that in a few short days we'd be raking in the cash.

No God would make a world in such poor taste, scoffed Darwin, thinking of blind nature's waste, of creatures duplicate, ungainly, vile: too many mollusks, slime without soul or style.

Meanwhile, they scoff at other people's belief in other gods.

Jesus is coming very soon that date may 21 2011 is not according to the bible at all neither is the rapture satan is working hard to counterfeit God's true word and to have people disbeileve the bible and scoff and laugh at christians if you read the bible carefylly u see clearly this is not found in the bible i beleive these people are followers thats why its so inportant for us to seek for ourselves and it so bovious God is soo real and its true also that there has to be an end because there is so much sadness and war in this world many people beleive the end of the world, but the end will be realy to sin..

First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Don rightly scoffs at this idea («Don't be so cynical») when Sally parrots it on the phone — and we are reminded of his recoiling, in Season Five, from Lane Pryce's anti-spending slogan: «Pennies make pounds.

As one believer explained, «To turn again to the cares, perplexities, and dangers of life, in full view of jeering and reviling unbelievers who scoffed as never before, was a terrible trial of faith and patience.

And the same can be true of the Edomites spoken of in the Bible — that many scientists scoffed at the idea as if they were a made up people, that is, until the discovery of the city of Petra.

Scoffing like little chldren at those that believe in God.

Other players criticize and scoff at him: Two Detroit Lions players recently knelt in mockery of him during a game, one after sacking Tebow for a loss and the other after scoring a touchdown....

(Roe's theory of «substantive due process,» which was also the basis for Dred Scoff and Lochner, has always landed the court in trouble, because it strikes down properly enacted laws that interfere with whatever the justices conclude is an important «liberty»)

3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

People will scoff at the prospect of the Kingdom of God coming in power and the earth that was once destroyed with a flood will be destroyed with fire.

When I pointed out to him that the largest religious youth movement in the Netherlands at the time was Youth for Christ, he scoffed: «That's just a temporary blip on the screen.»

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

2 Peter 3:3 - 4 Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

I used to scoff at the idea of a single entity that was in the evil business, thinking those people weak of mind as to need one bogeyman to distract from their own weaknesses.

HelpfulNot Helpful 2 Peter 3:2 - 3 ESV / 10 helpful votes That you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

While I have, I think, a reasonably good picture of why men in a macho culture felt they needed to keep women down, I deeply resent having learned the concept of «woman's work» at home and having been treated to lighthearted scoffing about «lady Ph.D. s» in college.