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Disdain in sentence

229 examples of Disdain in a sentence

I also have a pronounced disdain for red tape and inefficiency.
In February, he compared his disdain for Cambodia’s media to Trump’s distrust of the mainstream media in the US.
The solution is not just to build more hospitals, but also to change deep-rooted disdain for women.
Many on the left rightly disdain the easy surrender of others on their side to the premise that globalization has rendered the nation-state irrelevant.
The liberal elites, the populists proclaim, rule the world and dominate ordinary patriotic people with an air of lofty disdain.
And yet recent deliberate attacks on refugee camps and hospitals, in Syria and elsewhere, demonstrate an absolute disdain for basic humanitarian norms.
The current president of the United States has such disdain for the EU that many now talk of “the end of the West.”
Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.
Euroskeptic politicians elected to the European Parliament are often treated with the disdain that true believers reserve for the infidel.
Is Texas swagger merely to be replaced by the distinguished disdain of a Boston Brahmin?
Whereas the principle of utility calls for inquiry and argument, Bentham believes that those who advocate such pre-existing rights disdain both and are more likely to stir people up to use force.
She has publicly expressed her disdain for both large national parties; she would much rather lead a coalition than join one.
And if the aestheticexploration of the word was no longer the goal, it could not be abandoned entirelyand with disdain; whatever we wrote and now write, with whatever purpose,whether to express the struggle for freedom or the passion of a love affair,can approach the power of truth only to the extent that we are capable ofexploring the splendor of language brought into its service.
Comrade Trump may disdain that system, but he cannot escape it.
Indeed, China’s obvious disdain for international mediation, arbitration, or adjudication essentially takes peaceful dispute resolution off the table.
None of this swayed the rest of the world, which views the war with disdain and alarm.
At times charming, at times eccentric, and often behaving like bandits, these provincial chieftains share several attributes: high rates of poverty in their provinces, comfortable lifestyles for themselves, and a disdain for democratic institutions.
A few years ago, I started hearing a troubling refrain: business leaders are feeling the type of public disdain once reserved for politicians.
No, the author has many of his facts wrong and goes beyond reasonable speculation, which brings him disdain from scientists.
Of course, there is a certain logic to the public’s disdain for superstar compensation outside of professional sports and entertainment.
For decades, Israel dealt with this risk through effective air defenses and disdain for its adversaries’ ability to strike Dimona.
For one thing, US President Donald Trump, who treats multilateralism and international cooperation with cherished disdain, will be attending for the first time.
But your “strongmen” do not help your countries in the long run, and we are sorry that Trump’s disdain for the rule of law aids their economic mismanagement and human-rights abuses.
Indeed, there is palpable disdain for Syria in Washington.
Both countries are in the midst of a deep identity crisis that is mutating into disdain for Europe, foreigners, migrants, and all who represent the “other.”
Exercising soft power – leading by democratic and moral example – will not be easy for Trump, given the disdain he showed for truth, rational argument, basic human decency, and racial, religious, and gender differences, not to mention the fact that he was not actually elected by a majority of voters.
Russia’s demonstrators’ message is simple: “Too much corruption, disdain, and inequality is too much.”
They also disdain globalization more generally.
Sadly, most bureaucrats still look upon human rights values with disdain.
The Fund’s proposal has been greeted with predictable disdain and derision by the financial industry.
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