It's extremely bad form to deride another county's earthquake, however hilariously pathetic and underwhelming it was, unless you either come from the affected region or were a former inhabitant.
One of the Tea Party leaders in Congress, Michele Bachmann, was drowned out by supporters of what opponents deride as "Obamacare" as she stood in front of the court to declare that the battle is still on over what she called "one of the most important consequential decisions it will ever make".
Warner's response was not untypical; he went on the attack, using a BBC World Service interview in August to deride the FA's chances of winning the 2018 bid: "Nobody in Europe likes England.
"GORILLAS with calculators" is how creative types used to deride media buyers.
In conversation he was quick to deride the work of his rivals as "philosophical journalism".
In fact the success of social-marketing programmes in HIV prevention among gay men in the West underscores that there are effective alternatives.John Egan VancouverSIR – I deride your description of medical circumcision as "mutilation".
The rebels are wary of launching an assault too early without better weapons.Those who deride the West's timidity say that, as the war drags on, extremists are getting the upper hand among the rebels and that sectarian atrocities, for instance against Mr Assad's fellow Alawites, will increase.
A year ago, the California governor's approval ratings had slumped low enough for the Democrats to deride him as a one-term governor.
On June 16th Mr Zarqawi's Salafist mentor, Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, was released from prison, but not before he had been persuaded to issue two fatwas declaring followers of ISIS as "deviants" and telling them not to make attacks in Jordan.Leading sheikhs, too, deride ISIS.
ECONOMISTS tend to deride state lotteries as a regressive tax.
The idea is both to make bankruptcy less likely and to isolate subsidiaries should they fail.Yet some people deride the restructuring of the chaebol as a sham.
