The other European powers made great play of belittling US fears and giving the appearance that this was a storm in a teacup. |
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Do you actually feel more manly or powerful after belittling a fellow human? |
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I think she felt it was belittling her loss so I got stuck in and several letters later we got a result. |
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Worse, mom constantly ridiculed Betty, belittling her long nose and unkempt manner of dress. |
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I know I make fun of it all the time but this is not to be mistaken for belittling the courage of all those who participate. |
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While we all can understand how belittling that experience must have been, shooting the messenger is never the recommended palliative. |
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When he spoke of a sign of personal virtue, he seemed to be belittling the importance of conservation. |
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Without belittling the importance of media research, it's time that the rule of the real governed policy as well. |
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Mr Darling was chancellor of the exchequer during the financial crisis an impossible, belittling job. |
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So I do not feel bad about belittling their phony consultations that have lead them to introduce such a bill. |
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The rightwing press has Labour on the run and belittling its leader will soon become very nasty indeed. |
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That does not mean belittling the need to update and adapt its working methods. |
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If the woman has not been careful but has gadded about, neglecting her house and belittling her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water. |
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He lords this over her, berating her for every little slip-up, belittling even her successful activities and doomsaying any new ideas that she comes up with. |
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The fiancé is always belittling Hepburn, so whenever he's in the stands, her tennis and golf go kerflooey. |
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At one point, he chats with his wife and his mother on a cell phone, in Hebrew, sounding henpecked: a timely comic belittling, you assume. |
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At the outset of the journey he spoke in belittling terms of Italy, of its primitiveness, its poverty. |
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This belittling attitude also gains strength through the media, where women are portrayed in a one-dimensional, tendentious way. |
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She alleged that she was subjected to rude, belittling and humiliating comments and denied opportunities to attend work-related workshops. |
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This situation diminishes the African cultural heritage, belittling its diversity and specificity. |
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I shall always oppose the use of this term and the image it conveys, because this image is belittling and depersonalising. |
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We also feel that the elders made us feel comfortable asking questions without belittling us and scolding us for not knowing the answer. |
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We must consider all parts of the world in the same way, without belittling them. |
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There is no point in ignoring our history or belittling our heritage. |
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I'm just not in the mood for that snide voice belittling me, yet. |
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My purpose here is not to qualify my message by belittling science. |
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He gets off to a bad start by belittling the category and the nominees. |
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And the final question, can we in our profession discuss these issues in a calm, mutually respectful way without criticizing, belittling or vilifying one another? |
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Wei also published a historical work lambasting and belittling his political opponents. |
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State education was not, ipso facto, a good thing: it could be used for very negative purposes, for assimilation and to create cultural hegemony, thereby belittling indigenous cultures. |
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The belittling tone of the obituary brought forth strong rebuttals from T S Eliot, Kenneth Clark and Priestley, among others. |
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The worst was that the Japanese took great pleasure in belittling the prisoners time and again and making a fool of them, leaving them standing to attention for hours and letting them bow like slaves before their lord. |
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Harassment such as yelling and screaming, verbal abuse, hostile displays of anger and loss of temper, or rude, demeaning, vulgar or belittling comments from any employee should not be tolerated. |
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Parents can meet these challenges by remaining available, setting rules in a noncritical way, not belittling the adolescent, and avoiding lectures or predicting catastrophes. |
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Gender-based analysis is about fully analysing the consequences of federal policy, program, and legislation, not about promoting or belittling anyone in particular. |
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Israel's belittling of the Organization's efforts to address that issue were offensive: if at the United Nations one could not openly call for respect of human rights and international law, then where could that be done? |
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Suetonius painted Claudius as a ridiculous figure, belittling many of his acts and attributing the objectively good works to his retinue. |
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It had an intellectual rationale, an ideology of anti-black racism, which favoured the cultural belittling of Africans and blacks, and even gave it a legal basis. |
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Figure represents number of reported cases of non-tolerated behaviours, which include belittling, harassment, insults, bullying, and verbal violence directed at other students or personnel. |
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I think it's an important factor, it's not belittling them. |
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Too bad that the drums' production somewhat tarnishes the intention, much to remote to support this creative tingling sensation, almost belittling the work to demo rank. |
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Furthermore, the Commission stressed that its conclusion that no genocidal policy had been pursued should not be taken as in any way detracting from or belittling the gravity of the crimes perpetrated. |
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Why is he belittling the people of Atlantic Canada by saying that when something happens in Atlantic Canada, that it is just patronage at its best? |
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But other difficulties with this book include name-calling, belittling, adolescent obscenities, political oversimplifications, and, ironically enough, a truncated theology. |
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Without belittling the X Games, it's sort of faddish,'' Usher said. |
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The statement was in favor of an environment in which people coming from different beliefs and backgrounds may engage in passionate dialogue without belittling one another. |
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Her detractors are in the habit of belittling her accomplishments. |
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Belittling the good reasons for breastfeeding is never justified to alleviate the guilt or unresolved bitterness for not being able. |
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Belittling her intellectual legitimacy is the sort of a tactic often employed by sexists, racists, and others who cling to power for fear of losing it. |
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