Sentence examples for Belittle from inspiring English sources

The catchment of indiscretion that is Twitter also exposes just how frequently gender warriors belittle other women.

"I certainly did not intend to belittle the difficulties some people have in making ends meet".

But the principlists hate and despise Mr Mashaei, dubbing him a "source of deviation" for his relatively liberal views on personal freedoms and his statements that seem to belittle clerical authority.Not long ago an election fight that included Messrs Rafsanjani and Mashaei seemed unthinkable.

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.

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.

Not only does he belittle the protesters as hoodlums and drunks (he even suggested they had drunk beer and copulated in an Ottoman-era mosque) but he has turned his ire on the foreign press two Canadian journalists were briefly arrested.

Another tendency is to belittle the contribution that amateurs make.

I don't want to belittle the importance of all this (once you start noticing these things, you see the Pantone influence in everything from TV soap operas to car interiors), but it is hard to suppress a chuckle at the words that accompany the annual announcement of the "colour of the year".

The Manichean scheme that he paints sums up the debate that will surely decide the future of England's politics.Mr Parris is careful not to belittle the residents of the faded Essex resort, but to describe it as he saw it: poor, nostalgic and occupied by white, working-class and mostly elderly folk.

In terms of emissions caused, you would have to deny yourself over 100,000 of them to make up for a holiday in Australia.Yet it still seems wrong to belittle the bag-bashers.

Does the "beautification" of subjects belittle them?For me the goal is to get as many people as possible to pay attention and to stop what they are reading, to engage and to ask questions, so I don't think it has anything to do with belittling people.