It's not like you to belittle legitimate concerns from a distinct ethnocultural space. |
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To vilify the ancient and heavenly act of smoking is to belittle one of life's most wicked and pleasurable of indulgences. |
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I have learnt never to underestimate the worth of young people, nor to ridicule or belittle them. |
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It is the fashion among the cognoscenti to belittle the glorious history and traditions of this island and its people. |
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I've always believed that anti-feminism at its most insidious gets women to belittle and undermine each other. |
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I don't think it's fair to belittle the efforts of so many scientists and engineers simply because the end vehicle may prove to be inviable. |
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And who should know better than he that it is craven to belittle a man's service because it didn't extend over some arbitrary stretch of time? |
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The papers go out of their way to misgender and belittle, replacing every correct gender reference with one that seems calculated to humiliate. |
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It galled him that soldiers had driven so hard to penetrate the city, only to have a buffoon in a beret belittle them to the world. |
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If you belittle their opinions or dismiss their problems, they'll stop talking to you. |
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I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering. |
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The presence of cameras staring at the terrace and into the street below does not belittle the stunning view from the roof. |
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In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual. |
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And she would belittle people with her technospeak to make them look stupid. |
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He does not dismiss or belittle the gifts and talents that his Creator endowed to him. |
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Who is Dawkins, asks McGrath, to belittle theism when such giants of evolutionary theory did not? |
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Wilson and Meaker both depict her as icy, needy and eager to belittle Highsmith. |
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I do not mean to belittle the heroic deeds achieved by the pioneers, some whom even laid down their lives in fighting crime. |
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Those who belittle the task of homemaking are putting our next generations at extreme risk. |
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Why was this man so determined to belittle him, and put him down, at every chance? |
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All, at some time in their history, have sought to belittle or even deny the humanity of others. |
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It is not in our nature to disparage the city we love or belittle the real successes that are made by our opponents as they did to us over the last three years. |
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Harman bristles, an irked schoolteacher crinkling her nose at the perceived slight, and then explains why no one should belittle her role. |
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Imagine my surprise when I opened the book and found a photo of me leading the rogues' gallery of economists who allegedly belittle the role of technological change. |
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The catchment of indiscretion that is Twitter also exposes just how frequently gender warriors belittle other women. |
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I certainly did not intend to belittle the difficulties some people have in making ends meet. |
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We can never really belittle the seriousness of those crimes and compare them to those who attack people physically. |
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They feel the need to belittle others to enhance their self-esteem or self-image. |
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No one should seek to belittle the achievements of Ottawa by saying that anti-vehicle mines should have been included. |
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How are we to do this when you belittle the work done by Anna Politkovskaya? |
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But if ye obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not belittle aught of your deeds: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. |
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The group found that women were portrayed only in their domestic roles and that texts tended to belittle women. |
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But these statements belittle his office and give a green light to those who wish to harm human rights activists in Colombia. |
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The hip heroes of movies today deliver gratuitous put-downs to ridicule and belittle anyone who gets in their way. |
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While he did not wish to belittle the suffering of the Armenians, he pointed out that 2 million Turks had perished under similar conditions. |
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Hand it off to a hen-pecked husband or a put-upon assistant and it can demean or belittle. |
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The Fox News host seemed to belittle Laura Ingraham during an on-air clash about same-sex marriage. |
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This is not a time to complain about or belittle this shift, or, as with Kotkin, to pretend that it is not even taking place. |
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Though the national media may bray and belittle her, they continue to pay attention to her. |
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I do not mean to belittle your comments but there is no magic wand. |
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They not only belittle the work of the Bloc Québécois, but twice last fall the Bloc presented motions in this House to come to the assistance of the forestry and manufacturing sectors and they voted against them. |
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After 1471, Edward IV had preferred to belittle Henry's pretensions to the crown, and made only sporadic attempts to secure him. |
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And he is probably right to belittle the current round of talks. |
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What has he done but twist and skew and distort and discolor and belittle and be pretty this whole doggoned country? |
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Yet, Western intelligence tends to belittle them as a bunch of bluffers. |
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Perhaps that's because he doesn't belittle his audience by dumbing down the material or feeding them dogmatic pablum. |
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She would rant and rave and belittle people. |
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So let us not belittle the capabilities of the reserves. |
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Of course, his purpose was not to belittle the report but to remind everyone that the exercise of human rights called for a collective commitment and an effort to understand each situation. |
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Please don't let us feel as if we have done things wrong and belittle us. |
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Did she not berate, belittle and bully airport staff? |
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Another tendency is to belittle the contribution that amateurs make. |
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You may belittle this description of him but as the turbulent events of the past two years have made clear he is one person the country could not have done without. |
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As the education ministry begins its most ambitious reforms in more than half a century, there are understandable worries that Japan will fritter away its record of success. The reformers do not belittle these achievements. |
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Spurn those who would subvert His words to their own purposes, seek to impose His will upon others, advocate hate, belittle or inflict harm, subjugate one to another, incite violence or war, or unfairly exploit another. |
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So saying does not belittle the work of peace research institutes, nor of the NGOs that have promoted humanitarian corridors, days of peace, safe havens and all the other imaginative ways of reducing the brutal impact of war. |
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Many criminal justice systems belittle the seriousness of this crime. |
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Without wishing to belittle competition, he felt that the measures adopted by the General Conference were in fact a restraint intended for his predecessor whereas he himself sincerely desired to improve personnel policy. |
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Mark Antony later used the examples of these battles as a means to belittle Octavian, as both battles were decisively won with the use of Antony's forces. |
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