Sentences with phrase «while flouting»

I hope that any neoconservative would look through the gospels that Byzantine Catholics and Orthodox hear on the Sundays that lead up to Lent and even listen to the USCCB before they hold up the bible or cite their Christian beliefs while flouting their anti-poor positions.

On this view, a rule is only as good as the number of people who keep it, and hypocrisy (espousing a precept while flouting it oneself) is ridiculous and morally bankrupt.

Not exact matches

My go to recipe for Banana bread for 3 decades was from the Joy of Cooking book, which frankly is quite decent - includes whole wheat flout and wheat germ - but a girl's fancy turns to other recipes and it has been a while for be and banana bread...

In all these ways, the ERG has behaved as though it is above the rules, vocally flouting the basic code of behaviour for ministers, while Theresa May's weakened government pretends that one of its most powerful critics, Rees - Mogg, is really just the chair of a reading group.

A state that's erroneously described as the only democracy in the Middle East treats international law and conventions with contempt, flouts them with increasing regularity and maintains a brutal military occupation [of Palestine] while the whole world looks on,» Mubarak wrote.

Ayariga says he does not fathom why his APC, which started operation not long ago, could strive to fulfill all the requirement of the law in relation to the operation of a political party while the so - called bigger parties will flout such a key aspect of the law.

Mr Cameron is a great master of gibes and flouts and jeers, while the Leader of the Opposition has quickly learned how to reciprocate the Prime Minister's expressions of genuine personal contempt.

While City Hall made cogent arguments for Uber's cars contributing to Manhattan's congestion, and originally articulated this as the reason for an immediate cap on Uber's growth, surge pricing was rarely mentioned when Mr. de Blasio eventually broadened his attacks on Uber to portray it as another greedy corporation trying to flout the rules of government.

It flouts convention in a number of ways in service of its genre - mash - up agenda while still contributing something original to the tradition of the zombie film.

The first act conveys the rush of drug use and flouting social taboos, while the rest of Trainspotting shows its antiheroes» misdeeds catch up to them.

While it was not until the 1950s and 1960s that many European filmmakers would deliberately flout Hollywood conventions to establish their own national cinemas free from American influence, there had always been films that existed well outside of the mainstream and Orpheus is one such film.

Given how strictly Assassin's Creed: Rogue sticks to the series template it's not surprising that it has also retained many of the old flaws, happily flouting such annoyances as Shay becoming unresponsive for a few seconds while clambering or doing entirely the wrong thing as the parkour system has a brief panic attack.

[47] While there is not an explicitly partisan or anti-capitalist edge to this type of work, it is structurally a political act in its flouting of laws, embrace of punk - rock and hip - hop aesthetics, and function as a means of populist or direct to the masses expression.

Your arguments can only improve if you actually learn the laws they are currently flouting, and while I fully understand your lack of respect for «authority» — while respectfully suggesting that it edges well over into iconoclasm for its own sake when you make statements that violate the experimentally verified laws clearly explained in every thermo textbook.

Techdirt argued that while the founder of Megaupload had a significant history of «flouting the law», evidence had potentially been taken out of context or misrepresented and could «come back to haunt other online services who are providing perfectly legitimate services».