Sentences with phrase «with derision»

The fact that some folks didn't like it was not surprising — most anything on climate change is met with derision by somebody.

Ed Miliband's promise to hold four million doorstep chats with voters during this year's electoral campaign was met with derision by some commentators.

The comedy and drama are heart felt and affectionate (even if the characters would snort with derision at such emotion).

The decision was greeted with derision by sources within the Boris camp, with one aide texting: «Gove is a c *** who set this up from the start.»

But when the company tried the same shtick a month later with Raptors star Kyle Lowry hurling basketballs at drones in a gym, YouTubians responded with derision — exactly what a brand - driven company doesn't want in a branding exercise.

Our suggestion that America should bring back the 55mph speed limit to conserve fuel was met with derision from many quarters, and the argument for a universal 30 mph a limit was apparently in danger of discrediting» the entire pro-environmental movement by making them look like a bunch of lunatic extremists.»

Mr. Giancarlo asserted that the cryptocurrency markets need to viewed «Not with derision, but with a little bit of attention and respect, and respond with policy initiatives that really are thoughtful and forward - looking.»

The early church believed Jesus and followed his example, so much so that even the Roman authorities noted (often with derision) in their letters and journals that the church was made up primarily of women, slaves, and poor, uneducated laborers.

Cameron's voice was dripping with derision as he quoted the lefty New Statesman's unimpressed verdict on the Labour leader.

One, called «moments,» tries to highlight tweets and events pertinent to each user, but was met largely with derision.

As usual they were met with derision because Christians do not kill people over stupid things like burning holy books in the trash.

I hadn't spent much time thinking about what it's like for gay kids to overhear their parents talking about gay neighbors with derision and fear, for example, or how narratives about judgment and hell can be processed by kids in some pretty destructive ways.

I speak Italian») that were bound to light up Twitter with derision.

Because it's a heck of a lot easier to dish it out than it is to eat it up, let me tell you, and I think sometimes we inadvertently perpetuate celebrity culture by railing so loudly against it, by feeding into the caricatures with our derision.

I snorted with derision when I read the title of this puerile article about this serial weed and con man.

It seems that Blackburn sites are meeting the suggestion with some derision — pointing to the fees quoted for Phil Jagielka and Gary Cahill and suggesting that their man is just as good.

Inevitably social media was filled with derision at England's chances of actually doing that and consequently during his next engagement, a Today programme interview with John Humphrys, he was asked about the same issue.

Her words were greeted with derision bordering on fury, not least by senior Conservative MPs who told her she must be more contrite and express sympathy for colleagues who had lost their seats.

The last - minute inclusion of Jeremy Corbyn as a contender to the leadership of the Labour Party was received with derision by mainstream media and party figures.

Disinterest mingles with derision.

We in UKIP have been seeing an inexorable decline in Labour support in the North since 2010 which has been denied with derision by Labour.

Any other path is often looked upon with derision by peers, as though leaving academia means you can't handle the academic track.

The «Shrek» phenomenon is one of those seeming oddities in our culture — children being entertained with derision before they've been ravished by awe.

Often when I don't respond favorably to movies like Jurassic World, San Andreas, Geostorm and Kong Skull Island I am asked with derision «Rachel, why can't you just turn off your brain and enjoy a dumb movie...?»

Little wonder nine out of 10 film critics have dismissed The Happening with derision.

He makes biting the hand that feeds him a delectable act, devouring with derision.

It can honestly wear the name Jeep and not be met with derision save for the most hardcore off - roading fan who might question any vehicle made in Italy that is designed to conquer Moab.

A portfolio with just 30 % stocks would have been met with derision during that long, giddy bull market.

We are all acquainted with the derision with which Matisse's Woman with a Hat was greeted at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 and the protests provoked by Nijinsky's choreography for Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913.

Nonetheless, public employees often lose free speech cases because courts defer to an employer's judgment that the employee's inflammatory posts will cause disharmony or make the public view the public employer with derision or disrespect.

In my case I was caught «sinning» and thereafter treated with derision.

The system whereby MPs recommend and vote on their own salaries has long been criticised, with any significant pay rise traditionally greeted with derision.

Mr. de Blasio did not know the answer to the question, although it was a simple one, which prompted Mr. DeFrancisco to respond with derision.

Mr Cameron's article was met with derision from his political opponents.

But the basketball player who shoots baskets at lunch «is watched with interest and admiration, not with derision.»

The expectations for the track were perhaps not quite as high as, during the coverage of the Formula 1 races, it is often referred to with derision as a «Mickey Mouse circuit» or a «glorified karting track.»

While Labour MPs snorted with derision and Harriet did her best to look utterly incredulous, did the PM have a point?

It's true, my post on more sustainable industrial monoculture was met with derision from some, and I'm not sure my follow up video of a green (er) megafarm will fare much better.

The Golden Goose award was developed in response to attacks on basic research by politicians who fail to appreciate the value of basic research, and it is not difficult to imagine that a research project begun back in the 1980's which sought to determine the role of a gene named «hedgehog» during embryonic development in fruit flies would have been greeted with derision by the usual suspects.

Twitter lit up with derision.

Although many of Trump's comments have been met with derision, they have landed him on more than one news program.