Sentences with phrase «widely ridiculed»

When eminent physicist Freeman Dyson suggested in The New York Review of Books in 2008 that we could deal with global warming by creating carbon - eating trees, he was widely ridiculed.

Based on the claims of the discredited and widely ridiculed IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, the carbon budget proposal is a naked scam to seize power and money.

They were widely ridiculed and continued to be until his death, even though the recognition of his genius within the art world grew rapidly.

Back in 1994, the original PlayStation was widely ridiculed by gamers at its Japanese launch, mainly because it bucked the dominant tech trend for home consoles set by the likes of Nintendo and Sega in the late 1980s.

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».

One of the scenes in the film that was widely ridiculed was the infamous Martha moment.

One recent game that is widely ridiculed and considered a failure by many in spite of being a perfectly functional and highly entertaining game on its own merits is Mass Effect: Andromeda.

After Andrea Leadsom was widely ridiculed for calling on broadcasters to be «a bit patriotic» in their Brexit coverage, another senior Brexiteer has followed in her footsteps.

Conservative MP Sir Alan Duncan has been widely ridiculed after appearing to say people who aren't rich are «low achievers».

This, after they spent # 500,000 on a poster campaign (the infamous «airbrushed» Cameron) that was widely ridiculed and traduced in the blogosphere.

It has instead led to tax incentives to stay married which are so modest that they have been widely ridiculed.

Trump was widely ridiculed for his recent call for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States «until we can figure out what's going on!»

Boris Johnson appeared several times on the satirical news quiz «Have I Got News for You», where he was widely ridiculed by the regular panellists.

Jeremy Corbyn has followed up his widely ridiculed claim that «the fight starts now» on Brexit with...

As Kuenssberg's treatment was widely ridiculed by fellow journalists on social media, Labour MPs also expressed their disgust — with one even warning that the party's events could soon resemble Donald Trump rallies.

On the one hand, you have Juicero, which was widely ridiculed for selling a $ 400 juice machine and that shut down soon after Bloomberg repo

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.

Further, when Conrad Black arrived for a court appearance in 2007 without socks, he was widely ridiculed.

But the product didn't perform to a notable level, and it was widely ridiculed by consumers who weren't happy about the prospect of spending $ 400 on something they could do themselves.

Not exact matches

The tweet prompted a swift backlash, as Ingraham was widely denounced for ridiculing a teenager and survivor of a mass shooting.

«There is not one redeeming aspect to a tobacco product,» said Nichols, who had shepherded the ban through the legislature since 2012 and noted most anti-tobacco laws were ridiculed before being widely adopted.

He is often ridiculed in the media for wearing what is widely considered to be an excessively luxurious toupee.

The plot, widely and rightfully ridiculed, is absurd and impenetrable.

Meanwhile, BlackBerry's bold move with the unusual Passport handset met with mixed success; it was widely criticised and even ridiculed in tech press circles, however, here at Know Your Mobile we absolutely loved the BlackBerry Passport, as did a few other fairly prominent reviews such as Forbes and Engadget, but more importantly it seemed consumers rather liked it too; we've had tons of feedback from enthusiastic Passport fans, while BlackBerry reported a lot of consumer interest in terms of orders and sales.

The AAJ statement said that past years» versions of the report have been «widely debunked and ridiculed.»

The memo, issued by the firm's Women's Committee and entitled «Presentation Tips for Women,» has been widely discussed and ridiculed across the blogosphere.

The list was met with both criticism and ridicule on social media networks and forums such as Reddit, with smartphone users mocking both the order of its top ten picks and the fact that Google's new offerings weren't even mentioned despite being widely considered as some of the finest mobile imaging tools ever created.