Sentence examples for To derisory from inspiring English sources

After years of being subjected to derisory on-air comments and column inches, Bangladesh's Tigers are now capable of unnerving the best.

If Mr Chubais is not there to stiffen their sinews, they will risk mustering much less of both.After a nervous December may come a nervous January always a difficult month for the finance ministry because tax collection, poor at best in Russia, falls to derisory levels amid the thick snow and public holidays of the new year.

The only way to get ahead in TV fashion is to be anti-fashion, to be derisory of a whole industry and to emerge self-righteously unaffected by it.

To avoid that, they tried to get her to accept derisory blood money".

More to the point, it's a 64% premium to the "derisory" cash offer share price of 580 pence $100) per share offered by Macquarie and a 12% premium to LSE's closing 845.5 pence $14.600) on March 8.

At the entrance to hotels and shopping malls, it was possible to hear derisory -- and slightly nervous -- comments about the lax security.

Other polls published at the weekend, including one by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday, showed the Tory lead extending to 17 points as Labour's support fell back to a derisory 24%.

Sugar admitted it made him angry to have "derisory actions" brought against him by English, describing it as tantamount to blackmail.

Even with all that revenue, central government investment has shrunk to a derisory 0.5% of GDP.Barely a day has passed since Lula came to office without shrill denunciations of the central bank, often from his own vice-president, José Alencar.

After seeing its budget for policing Brazil's forests slashed to a derisory 17m reais this year, it has received an emergency infusion of funds.The government proposes to ride up the BR-163 like a no-nonsense sheriff on the American frontier, but a truer analogy would be to 19th-century Afghanistan, which drew outside powers and local potentates into a contest for influence.

This drops away rapidly over the next three years to a derisory 0.1% in 2020 21.