| But the American military still recoils from getting involved in such conflicts and derides the worth of constabulary duties and nation building. |
| Friedman derides anti-globalisation protests, from Seattle's WTO meeting in 1999 to the Genoa G8 summit principally for lacking coherence. |
| All this persiflage, in harmony with the polemics of the Gorgias, derides and degrades the rhetors collectively. |
| Those things that the nation once glorified it now derides and satirizes. |
| It derides the whole issue of consensus building and getting people to buy into the process and understand it fully. |
| On one hand it derides Madoc's time, which is critically compared to the illustrious Arthurian age. |
