Sentences with phrase «scorn on»

The remark drew scorn on the right.

Anand Giridharadas, the author of a forthcoming book on the delusions of Silicon Valley's tech elites, pours scorn on the idea that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg could possibly be a potential successor to Trump.

It's hard to overstate how many people poured scorn on this idea when it was announced.

My initial reaction upon first seeing them many months ago was to pour scorn on Apple's designers for crafting a pair of expensive and easy - to - lose cigarette butts.

Writing in The Times Online last Friday, Michael Herman refers to «legal giants» pouring scorn on Labour's record, adding that «leading legal figures including Michael Mansfield QC, attack the Government over a series of issues including the independence of the judiciary, intervention in the legal system and failure to uphold the rule of law».

Many dig bite victims are reluctant to pursue legal action for fear of appearing litigious or even «silly;» popular culture often heaps scorn on people who speak to a personal injury lawyer after these incidents.

Especially disheartening were the comments — almost everyone heaping scorn on GW because «warming has not been significant since 1995» (sigh).

Without declaring his interests, he has used this column to pour scorn on studies documenting the medical effects of second - hand tobacco smoke and showing that climate change is taking place.

RC has put forward a figure of 17 % and is trying to support this by heaping scorn on Steve and others that first pointed out the problem.

When the president writes an article heaping scorn on the scientific conclusions of thousands of climate scientists on a matter which has become a political hot potato, the NAS will present itself as a part of the right wing, which is not conducive to our goal of being a non-partisan organization.

And I did not see anywhere that Dr. Curry called for censorship of any of the mental midgets heaping scorn on Dr. Bengtsson.

Mr Cameron's senior energy adviser pours scorn on claims by Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, that rises in gas and oil prices will be offset by people using less power.

Can you account for the reason why Deniers heap scorn on Hansen?

London: Former prime minister John Howard has poured scorn on the «alarmist» scientific consensus on global warming in a speech to a gathering of British climate sceptics, comparing those calling for action on climate change to religious zealots.

Williamson — who is attached to the University of East Anglia, home of the Climategate emails — got very upset about some articles I'd written for Breitbart and the Spectatorpouring scorn on his junk - scientific field, Ocean Acidification.

You Atomsk have no right to ludicrously and in a revoltingly patronising way throw scorn on any objection.

Given this blog is frequented by a crowd that likes to pour scorn on the idea that the heat is building up in the ocean, I would have thought this was the # 1 biggest implication of this study (for this venue).

Laframboise's book pours scorn on the IPCC for choosing the occasional young scientist to carry out tasks as authors.

Unfortunately, many people did not understand the reference and internet trolls saw an opportunity to heap scorn on the hipster crowd watching the performance.

Mr Hughes, a best selling author on art and culture, used his speech on the eve of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition to praise traditional skills such as drawing and pour scorn on the market in contemporary art.

He heaps even more scorn on Andy Warhol and the pop art movement that followed.

Who knows if someday, a great painter, looking with scorn on the often brutal game of supposed colorists and taking the seven colors back to the primordial white unity that encompasses them all, will not exhibit completely white canvases, with nothing, absolutely nothing on them.

The commentator and former National Trust chairman Simon Jenkins has poured scorn on what he calls a «luvvies» letter» — and most of the media coverage has singled out the actors on the list for ridicule or praise.

Apple also poured scorn on the idea that it entered into these illegal machinations to get rid of Amazon's Kindle.

Oddly, we're still the enemy — and the enemies of Heinlein - type books still do their best to mock, dismiss, and pour scorn on our non-literary writing.

Or: «I knew them before they were famous» which translates as «I am an unctuous hipster and will drip oily, corrosive scorn on, you know, like, everyone not in the inner circle of me, dude.»

But it's hard to focus your scorn on teachers unions without coming across as opposed to teachers of all stripes.

In spite of overwhelming evidence and bipartisan agreement on the important role teachers play in shaping children's lives, recent policy initiatives have only served to heap scorn on teachers while concurrently cutting positions, freezing salaries, and removing classroom support.

The Liberal Democrats, who heaped scorn on free schools during the election, will be expecting large sums to be spent on their own pupil premium policy to support poorer pupils.

A century ago, the superintendent of schools in New York, William Henry Maxwell, heaped scorn on one theorist who proclaimed «vertical penmanship» to be the solution to all ills.

A few years later, William Henry Maxwell, the esteemed superintendent of schools in New York City, heaped scorn on educational theorists who promoted their panaceas to gullible teachers; one, he said, insisted that «vertical penmanship» was the answer to all problems; another maintained that recess was a «relic of barbarism.»

Stalled in her unmediated rage and grief, Emanuel heaps scorn on her perfectly nice father, who's played by an underused Alfred Molina, and on her decidedly un-wicked stepmother (Frances O'Connor), who wants only to be liked, Sally Field - style.

Seeing them out to dinner in a restaurant, heaping scorn on the other couples whilst secretly feeling that something is missing from their own relationship is as tragic as it is funny.

In three features over four years, Judd Apatow has become America's leading comedy writer - director (yes), attracting rapture and scorn on serious matters of sex, gender and shmashmortion.

Kiwi men couldn't decide on their biggest decor no - no, heaping equal scorn on stuffed animals and motivational notes alike.

In his memoir, Riding Rockets, astronaut Mike Mullane poured scorn on the idea of assigning politicians to shuttle missions on the basis of a need for hands - on experience.

Scientists poured scorn on the decision, contending it puts patients at risk and undermines the authority of the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) to regulate research and approval of new drugs based on internationally accepted safety and efficacy protocols.

The MPs also pour scorn on the idea that laboratories could be privatised by transferring control of them to universities.

In their book, How to make a Fortune on the Information Superhighway, to be published in January, the couple pour scorn on the concept of a «community» on the Internet.

The French in turn poured scorn on the Spanish for using an archaic technology, and claimed that their drift nets, which have a mesh of 180 millimetres and, until the European Union's restrictions of 2.5 kilometres came into force, were on average 7 kilometres long, do not kill significant numbers of dolphins.

«There are some who whisper that our drive to tax the rich to fund pre-K and after - school is just political posturing — an effort to heap scorn on the wealthy to win an election,» de Blasio told lawmakers Monday.

Within minutes of Mr Dugher announcing he had been sacked, some nine shadow ministers and numerous other Labour MPs lined up to pour scorn on the decision and throw their support behind him.

President Donald Trump, the apostle of America First who has heaped scorn on global institutions, ripped up international agreements and quarreled even with allies, offered a subdued and largely friendly performance on the opening day of his inaugural visit to the United Nations.

In a relatively well - received speech, the health secretary poured scorn on Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP who appeared on American news networks to deride the NHS as a 60 - year mistake.

Dennis Skinner dolloped a sizeable dose of his own brand of seething scorn on the «tin - pot Liberals», accusing them of trying to «save face» by seeking to push through «a few marginal shifts» which wouldn't make much difference.

The Mayor of London is at his best in The Telegraph this morning, pouring scorn on Gordon Brown's «utterly tragic» 50p tax hike:

Nearly a year ago, crusading federal prosecutor Preet Bharara mocked Albany's culture of corruption, heaping extra scorn on the deals hatched in secrecy by three men in a room.

Former chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson and ex-party leaders Iain Duncan Smith and Lord Michael Howard poured scorn on warnings of economic disaster from the Remain campaign.

She responded to Mr Hague's jibes on the offensive, pouring scorn on his offer of economic advice given his time in government.

But in today's report MPs poured scorn on the coalition's strategic aims, which include being a «free and democratic society», dismissing them as «so general as to be meaningless».