What to some might seem a distasteful consumer frenzy in the wake of so much human suffering is crucial to keeping our economy afloat. |
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It was a slightly distasteful thing to watch, this video diary of a fragile man in need of help. |
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But this Council finds the idea distasteful and is blocking every attempt to find a suitable location. |
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Angharad was not used to being ignored and it was an unpleasant and distasteful position to be in. |
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She loathes Hollywood, finds it distasteful and banal, hates the idea of her art being tainted by commerce. |
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The ironic cheers from the home support towards the end of the game were particularly distasteful and served little purpose. |
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The notion that a small group would disrupt the event for reasons of self-interest will be regarded as distasteful. |
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Perhaps the mawkishness and jingoism of the popular culture prevailing in those days is as distasteful as the shallowness of our own. |
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Making use of the emotionally disturbed in this way has become a distasteful trend on the political left. |
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I attended one Old Firm match in the 1970s and found it an unpleasant and distasteful affair. |
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There's something a bit distasteful about the implications of much of the campaign, too. |
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These guy games may seem distasteful, but it should be no secret that girls play similarly in bar situations. |
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As it is, there is something fishy, even distasteful, about the way this story has been broken. |
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Unfortunately, this species sometimes hybridizes with its distasteful European cousin, polluting its pure flavor. |
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But most of the journalists there were a bunch of old Etonians who clearly find the whole thing distasteful. |
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Many Scots see the practice as distasteful and a step too far in the drive to find adoptive parents. |
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And this seems to be what the advocates of corporate philanthropy find distasteful. |
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I remember well that Hamish found the whole process distasteful and destructive. |
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The idea of running around pestering my friends for votes is quite distasteful. |
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If someone is unpleasant or distasteful, postings from that address can be blocked. |
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To cancel out the pleasurableness, associate something very distasteful with the act. |
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There is nothing more distasteful than backpackers landing in developing countries and pleading poverty. |
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The victim did not, however, have any ailment which might have led this distasteful infusion of blood with pee-pee. |
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Now, I admit, there is a part of me that finds all this pressure to consume at Christmastime distasteful. |
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They won't eat daffodils and other narcissi which are distasteful to them, but they find tulips and crocus irresistible. |
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You probably find the fact that there is a monetary value to your work rather distasteful. |
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I really can't believe I sat through such a sexist, classist, and distasteful film. |
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Of course, in some ways this notion is distasteful, obscene and disgusting. |
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By the 1940s freak shows were considered distasteful and morally unacceptable and the acts slowly began to disappear. |
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Yes, folding the tent on investments whose high hopes are dashed is mighty distasteful. |
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Some faculty members find the prospect of abruptly ending their academic careers distasteful and choose instead to postpone retirement. |
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Militant anti-communism coupled with an increasing social conservative statism were tendencies many libertarians found distasteful. |
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The public could boycott distasteful TV serials, after all they held the remote. |
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Debates emphasize ills to be corrected rather than distasteful choices to be made. |
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The bodybuilding lifestyle as portrayed by these publications is sordid and distasteful. |
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Here a high degree of competitiveness is regarded as distasteful or unseemly. |
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As in East is East, he puts a human face on a potentially distasteful role, avoiding caricature and mining a deeper, richer humour as a result. |
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Of course, he has views on social issues that, to a Western leftie, are distasteful. |
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But it is not nearly as distasteful as the fact that four people have died at this accident black spot in four years. |
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Always tell your parent or carer if you see bad language or distasteful pictures while you are online. |
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Its findings might be that bit easier to live with if we at least knew that it was bringing down the curtain on a particularly distasteful chapter in Irish politics. |
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It may even be distasteful to watch teenagers reduced to tears. |
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I find this kind of coverage distasteful, pointless and irrelevant. |
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The idea of returning to welfare may have become even more distasteful than before they entered the world of work. |
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Let it not be distasteful to us to rediscover in the Gospel the rules for a Peace which we could describe as self-abnegating! |
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What Mr Kenneth Tynan finds funny Baroness Birdbath has a perfect right to find distasteful. |
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Yet they are now the bellowing chorus that polls say voters find distasteful. |
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Its advocates are making a lot of hullabaloo in favor of selling something they find distasteful. |
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African American men also commonly use it to refer to behavior they find distasteful. |
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A year ago the Prime Minister acknowledged being driven by an ideology that many Canadians would find distasteful, and that is still true today. |
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Yet the idea of the press taking Twitter as its benchmark of newsworthiness seems equally distasteful. |
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I shall tell you in a minute why I find the pedantry, and sometimes even the simplicity, of this debate distasteful. |
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Business was deemed too distasteful a subject to impose on students seeking wisdom and enlightenment. |
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The Eurosceptics have a terrible image as a bunch of wild men with stripy shirts, staring eyes and distasteful views about foreigners. |
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It is an enduring political irony that, despite being a nation of strivers, Americans find naked ambition distasteful. |
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But it has been roundly condemned by civil libertarians and welfare advocates, who have labelled the project distasteful and demoralising. |
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Britain's phone-hacking affair was distasteful and illegal, but hardly a hanging offence. |
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They were waterboarding at will and waging wars in the name of freedom, which I found incredibly distasteful. |
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I have been listening all morning and I have heard a very distasteful line being promoted by the Conservative Party. |
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In addition, some women consider involvement in politics to be distasteful and avoid participation in political campaigns. |
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If there is a practice that citizens or elected officials find unwise or distasteful, the instinct has long been to write a rule against it. |
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He said that in play the emotions become purified of a great deal of the distasteful and dangerous properties which adhere to them. |
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Tying profitability to the early death of another human being strikes many people as inherently distasteful. |
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The entire content of the web site of the partner may not contain any content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial. |
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Beyond the health risks, cockroaches are a distasteful pest to have in the home. |
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Embalmer duties vary from distasteful to downright stomach-turning. |
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As a democrat, I believe that minorities should be protected from the prejudices of the majority when they turn on pursuits they find distasteful. |
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That being said, I find it very distasteful and classless when either side does it. |
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It was thoroughly distasteful and I bet he is living to regret it now. |
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Toad tadpoles appear to be distasteful to many predators, and, perhaps as a result of this, are much more often to be seen in open water than those of the common frog. |
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To be thus targeted by his lustful eye and hands was a kind of a distinction, however distasteful the gesture was. |
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Instead, we must be vigilant in guarding against the distasteful practice of having unfavourable preconceived notions against individuals based on their origin. |
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This distasteful reference clearly revealed the narrowness of his outlook. |
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However distasteful the theory may be, we have to admit that vicarious liability owes its explanation, if not its justification, to the search for a solvent defendant. |
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Her calf-like deference to this tyrant was distasteful to me. |
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Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance! |
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Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction. |
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One either likes it the moment one first hears it, or the sound of it is once and for ever distasteful to one. |
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The ruffe also has a large, spiny dorsal fin likely distasteful to its predators. |
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It was distasteful enough to rub elbows with an illiterate and vulgar white man of no ancestry. |
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I tried adding ammonium chloride to my bucks' food at one time, but they found it very distasteful and weren't interested. |
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I see big, big changes and advances in the military stuff, but some of the announcements from Kabul and Karzai now – basically nobbling the electoral commission, some pretty distasteful folks still involved in governments. |
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It is my firm conclusion that, distasteful as it always is to negotiate with an accomplice, the Crown had no alternative but to do so in this case. |
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Likewise, I found it particularly distasteful and very hard to watch the media coverage of a minority element at some of those demonstrations who were inflicting pain on themselves, especially young people. |
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I have never seen such hypocrisy in my life and it was very distasteful. |
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Affordable absinthes for all, and far from being distasteful! |
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George exercised the powers of the monarchy, just as Lords Protector had, but the title's republican associations had rendered it distasteful. |
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Personally, I find this story too distasteful to delve too deeply into it. |
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As soon as a distasteful event comes up, the best thing to do is to keep your cool instead of panicking or looking for the guilty parties, instead of living in hatred or guilt while judging yourself and others. |
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That distasteful history of blue-chip quarterbacking! |
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Workers have to obey orders and rules that they sometimes find distasteful, but seldom have any way to challenge their content or the manner in which they are conveyed and enforced. |
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The experience was so distasteful that Nagourney has since sworn off even watching talk shows. |
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State television, which is generally loth to give publicity to the reformists, took the trouble to film all three days of the conference, and then carefully distilled the most distasteful bits into a ten-minute snippet. |
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Take heart as what was once deemed distasteful eventually became illegal. |
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Some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous or distasteful and their bright coloring is aposematic. |
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At all times, the models can veto any request they find distasteful. |
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He kicked off his 2008 campaign by aping Vito Corleone, something columnist Peggy Noonan found distasteful and utterly unpresidential. |
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For example, a tendency to respond to an attractive food odour will decline if the food is out of reach, and many animals habituate to flavours that are mildly distasteful on first encounter. |
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It may not be public acclaim, which is distasteful to some. |
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The Vice-President and Station Manager of CJOH-TV responded by offering the station's apologies for the fact that the viewer found the film distasteful. |
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In the meantime, and despite his liberal inclinations, he is quite satisfied to live in peace with and to accept the support of the KGB, distasteful though that may be to Western liberals. |
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What I do find distasteful however is the hypocrisy. |
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Overhearing her telling the others about her job as a lap dancer, the housemates weren't impressed when she went into distasteful detail about sexual preferences. |
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I'm not surewhat ProfTallis thinks but it seems to me that this kind of accusatory finger-pointing represents one of the more distasteful sides of human nature. |
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Our distasteful story begins back in 1869, when a French chemist named Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invented an affordable butter substitute called oleomargarine. |
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The work was distasteful, but it was the best I could find at the time. |
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