Sentence examples for cannot belittle from inspiring English sources

Politicians may belittle the scientists, but they cannot belittle the destruction of New Orleans.

You cannot belittle depression yet a lot of people would not undo that side of themselves because it changes your thoughts.

They lost their best player and captain a week before the biggest tournament of the young players' lives, and to have come through with four performances to take them into the last 16 of the World Cup was an achievement which cannot be belittled.

"It's a big indication that 'we want you specifically,' and that cannot be belittled".

In a letter to military commanders last month, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said that "suicide prevention is a leadership responsibility," and added, "Commanders and supervisors cannot tolerate any actions that belittle, haze, humiliate or ostracize any individual, especially those who require or are responsibly seeking professional services".

Those critics who say that Panchayati Raj systems cannot be relied upon are belittling the very foundations of democracy.

Yet there persists a trend for belittling young people who cannot afford to buy by claiming everyone can afford to do so as long as they don't live in London.

It is patronising, disrespectful and belittling to think that people cannot talk about, think about, write about and read about the suicides of artists, and the portrayal of suicide in the arts, in an open and uninhibited way.